The Jungle Book: 1967
The Jungle Book: 1967 The Numbers The producers had a budget of 4 million US dollars to create the film. Box office sales : $141,843,000 DVD sales : $279,865,108 Blue Ray DVD's: $22,305,752 Total Video Sales: $302,170,860 Did you know facts WALT DISNEY THOUGHT THE FIRST VERSION OF THE SCRIPT WAS TOO DARK. MOST OF THE SONGS WERE DEEMED TOO DARK AS WELL. IT WAS THE LAST ANIMATED FEATURE WALT DISNEY OVERSAW. A RHINOCEROS CHARACTER GOT CUT. THEY WANTED THE BEATLES TO VOICE THE VULTURES. KING LOUIE WAS BASED ON LOUIS ARMSTRONG. Background Info The director of the 1967 Jungle Book was Wolfgang Reitherman who was born in Germany 1909. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men-Walt Disney core animators. Wolfgang directed 9 Disney movies such as Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. Walt Disney died while the movie was being made.