Oscar winner and most beautiful person of the year Lupita Nyongo’o is rumoured to be up for a big animated film role with 'The Jungle Book.'
Scarlett Johansson, currently filming "The Avengers: Age of Ultron," has also joined the movie.
Nyong'o will play Rakcha, a mother wolf who adopts a young human boy named Mowgli.
Johansson, meanwhile, will provide the voice of Kaa, a python who hypnotizes and eats other animals. Kaa is the second villain of the film, following the ferocious tiger Shere Khan, voiced by Idris Elba.