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44 DGA QUARTERLY PHOTOS: (TOP & BOTTOM LEFT) WALT DISNEY STUDIOS MOTION PICTURES/PHOTOFEST; (BOTTOM RIGHT) WALT DISNEY PICTURES/EVERETT "The balancing act is to make sure you're able to satisfy the people who have a relationship with the original and just tell a story as if it was something nobody has ever told before," says Jon Favreau. "I had very strong memories of Jungle Book and would be disappointed if we didn't reference those aspects of the memory." Jungle Book photo realistically with CG technology, had it been at his disposal, as Jon Favreau did for the studio in 2016. "As we start to look back and consider these movies," Bailey says, "we feel the bones of the stories are timeless for a reason. But I think we have new things to say about gender and diversity to make these stories truly timeless, but also made for the 21 st century." Disney has also turned 101 Dalmatians into live action under Stephen Herek and Cinderella under Kenneth Branagh, and has in the works The Lion King with Favreau, Dumbo with Tim Burton, Aladdin with Guy Ritchie, Mulan with Niki Caro and The Little Mermaid with no director yet attached. All either have or will meld varying degrees of live action with CG technology. "It's an interesting challenge," continues Bailey. "I've noticed a big difference from the Walt era. With Lion King- or Beauty and the Beast-era movies, there are certain things the audience wants to feel, and certain moments and memories that they don't want compro- mised or reinvented. But there are other elements where you are given great latitude, and that's something we always talk a lot about at the beginning." Herek estimates his 101 Dalmatians followed 85 percent of the original's narrative without having the dogs talk, as they did in the animated version. He used real dogs and wanted to keep it "as real feeling as possible," rarely using CG with the Dalmatians for any- thing other than to create personifying expressions. "One of my problems was, how do I get personality without hav- ing the dogs speak?" says Herek. "We did discuss having them talk