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All pictures of actors and their counterparts are courtesy of Warner Bros Studios Look, there are more important things going on in nerddom, but this The Jungle Book promo shit? These promos, my tiger? This the shit you had no idea you needed. This that shit that make you wake up and put one foot on the floor and one up the ass of whatever was fuckin’ with you the day before.
Everybody need some shit every once in a while to feel powerful, and ain’t much that makes you feel Super Saiyan than taking that mixtape album cover with a majestic looking creature. You know… a majestic looking creature that your ass didn’t kill for sport and then post on Instagram like a Trump.
If you ain’t seen these joints yet, the live action Jungle Book is dropping in theaters soon and of course it’s got A+ voice talent for the characters. But instead of just the typical name crawl at the bottom of a trailer, the actors put on their best solid colors and posed with their (CG) counterparts. Look yo, ain’t nothing wrong with your day that Lupita wearing a blouse made from the sun and cuddled up with mother wolf Raksha can’t solve.
Scarlett Johannson might make a better python than Black Widow spider (but seriously, she’s great as Natasha, give her a movie). Sir Ben Kingsley is the only White dude that gets to claim being a Black Panther in this life, so help me Bast.
And do we even have to mention Idris? Look fam, the shot of this dude leaning up against the tiger Shere Khan is enough to make an…
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