The affable Brit has signed on to helm a live-action adaptation of The Jungle Book for Warner Bros., a person with k**wledge of the deal confirms to Mashable.
Serkis has lent his formidable voice and motion-capture talents to a number of major special-effects films, most memorably as Gollum in the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies. He became such an integral part of those productions that Jackson named Serkis his second-unit director, on-the-job training that would prove to be — yeah, we're going there — preciousssss. Read more...