He also Made a Cameo Apperence in the Film Champitoons'' Along with the others Jungle Book Characters and Several of more Disney Movie Characters. It was to star King Louie, but had to be changed to Larry so as not to violate their agreement with Gia Prima. However, in one of the Disney TV Shows, House of Mouse, there is a King Louie look-alike orangutan who is referred to as King 'Larry', and is said to be Louie's identical twin brother. So after Disney settled out of court, they have since refrained from using King Louie in any of their projects to avoid further conflict with Gia and her attorneys. His absence was primarily due to Louis Prima's widow, Gia Maione (aka Gia Prima), filing suit at Disney for unauthorized usage of her late husband's voice and persona in previous Jungle Book projects, such as Jungle Cubs (Jim Cummings, who provided Louie's voice in these projects, had done a near perfect job impersonating Prima's voice). King Louie did not appear in The Jungle Book 2 (though a shadow puppet of him can be seen at the beginning). His name arises in this version from the vast wealth that humans left behind in the city, and in particular to his habit of wearing a crown similar in appearance to that worn by the King of France, Louis XIV. Once again he is an orangutan, and the 'leader' of a group of monkeys that make their home in an abandoned human city. He sings the song ' I Wanna Be Like You' after he kidnaps Mowgli, and asks the boy to show him the secret of 'red flower' so he can be human.Ī slightly different King Louie character appeared in the Disney 1994 live-action Jungle Book movie starring Jason Scott Lee. King Louie appears to be natural, but he just wants to be human he is the classic misunderstood villain.

The jungle book 1994 behind the scenes