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The financial success of the film led to [[https://deadline.com/2020/09/the-lion-king-sequel-barry-jenkins-moonlight-director-disney-1234586787/ Disney officially announcing a prequel]] to be directed by ''Film/{{Moonlight|2016}}'' creator Creator/BarryJenkins. The film, titled ''Mufasa: The Lion King'', is planned to be released in 2024, and will feature Timon, Pumbaa, and Rafiki (with Creator/SethRogen, Creator/BillyEichner, and Creator/JohnKani reprising their respective roles) narrating the life story of Mufasa from his childhood to his ascension to king of Pride Rock. Though the framing device takes place in the present day after the first film, it will not be an adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride''.
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The financial success of the film led to [[https://deadline.com/2020/09/the-lion-king-sequel-barry-jenkins-moonlight-director-disney-1234586787/ Disney officially announcing a prequel]] to be directed by ''Film/{{Moonlight|2016}}'' creator Creator/BarryJenkins. The film, titled ''Mufasa: ''[[WesternAnimation/MufasaTheLionKing Mufasa: The Lion King'', King]]'', is planned to be released in 2024, and will feature Timon, Pumbaa, and Rafiki (with Creator/SethRogen, Creator/BillyEichner, and Creator/JohnKani reprising their respective roles) narrating the life story of Mufasa from his childhood to his ascension to king of Pride Rock. Though the framing device takes place in the present day after the first film, it will not be an adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride''.
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* BassoProfundo: Mufasa has a deep and powerful voice befitting of his impressive physique and position as literal king of beasts. And that goes for Chiwetel Ejiofor too, because he lent his deep bass voice as Scar in this Disney live-action film.
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''The Lion King'' is the 2019 photorealistic computer animated remake of the 1994 Franchise/{{Disney animated|Canon}} epic ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}''. It was directed by Creator/JonFavreau, director of 2016's wildly successful live-action/CGI adaptation of ''[[Film/TheJungleBook2016 The Jungle Book]]'', and brought to screen using the same highly photorealistic CGI techniques by Creator/MovingPictureCompany as that film employed. The screenplay was written by Jeff Nathanson, with ''Franchise/TheLionKing'' franchise veterans Thomas Schumacher (a producer of the original film) and Julie Taymor (director of the [[Theatre/TheLionKing Broadway adaptation]]) serving as executive producers. The film was released in the United States on July 19, 2019,[[note]]The international release began in China on July 12.[[/note]] and, despite being animated, is considered part of the current [[Film/DisneyLiveActionRemakes trend of live-action remakes]] by Disney.
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''The Lion King'' is the 2019 photorealistic computer animated remake of the 1994 Franchise/{{Disney animated|Canon}} epic ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}''. It was directed by Creator/JonFavreau, director of 2016's wildly successful live-action/CGI adaptation of ''[[Film/TheJungleBook2016 The Jungle Book]]'', and brought to screen using the same highly photorealistic CGI techniques by Creator/MovingPictureCompany as that film employed. The screenplay was written by Jeff Nathanson, with ''Franchise/TheLionKing'' franchise veterans Thomas Schumacher (a producer of the original film) and Julie Taymor (director of the [[Theatre/TheLionKing Broadway adaptation]]) serving as executive producers. The film was released in the United States on July 19, 2019,[[note]]The international release began in China on July 12.[[/note]] and, despite being animated, is considered part of the current [[Film/DisneyLiveActionRemakes trend of live-action remakes]] by Disney.
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''The Lion King'' is the 2019 photorealistic computer animated remake of the 1994 Franchise/{{Disney animated|Canon}} epic ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}''. It was directed by Creator/JonFavreau, director of 2016's wildly successful live-action/CGI adaptation of ''[[Film/TheJungleBook2016 The Jungle Book]]'', and brought to screen using the same highly photorealistic CGI techniques by Creator/MovingPictureCompany as that film employed. The screenplay was written by Jeff Nathanson, with ''Franchise/TheLionKing'' franchise veterans Thomas Schumacher (a producer of the original film) and Julie Taymor (director of the [[Theatre/TheLionKing Broadway adaptation]]) serving as executive producers. The film was released in the United States on July 19, 2019,[[note]]The international release began in China on July 12.[[/note]] and, despite being animated, is considered part of the current [[Film/DisneyLiveActionRemakes trend of live-action remakes]] by Disney, and Disney itself does not recognize the record as such for this film, claiming that ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'' (released later in the same year) gets the title.
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''The Lion King'' is the 2019 photorealistic computer animated remake of the 1994 Franchise/{{Disney animated|Canon}} epic ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}''. It was directed by Creator/JonFavreau, director of 2016's wildly successful live-action/CGI adaptation of ''[[Film/TheJungleBook2016 The Jungle Book]]'', and brought to screen using the same highly photorealistic CGI techniques by Creator/MovingPictureCompany as that film employed. The screenplay was written by Jeff Nathanson, with ''Franchise/TheLionKing'' franchise veterans Thomas Schumacher (a producer of the original film) and Julie Taymor (director of the [[Theatre/TheLionKing Broadway adaptation]]) serving as executive producers. The film was released in the United States on July 19, 2019,[[note]]The international release began in China on July 12.[[/note]] and, despite being animated, is considered part of the current [[Film/DisneyLiveActionRemakes trend of live-action remakes]] by Disney, and Disney itself does not recognize the record as such for this film, claiming that ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'' (released later in the same year) gets the title.
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''The Lion King'' is the 2019 photorealistic computer animated remake of the 1994 Franchise/{{Disney animated|Canon}} epic ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}''. It was directed by Creator/JonFavreau, director of 2016's wildly successful live-action/CGI adaptation of ''[[Film/TheJungleBook2016 The Jungle Book]]'', and brought to screen using the same highly photorealistic CGI techniques by Creator/MovingPictureCompany as that film employed. The screenplay was written by Jeff Nathanson, with ''Franchise/TheLionKing'' franchise veterans Thomas Schumacher (a producer of the original film) and Julie Taymor (director of the [[Theatre/TheLionKing Broadway adaptation]]) serving as executive producers. The film was released in the United States on July 19, 2019,[[note]]The international release began in China on July 12.[[/note]] and from 2019 (when it surpassed ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' for the title) to 2023 (when it was itself surpassed by ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'') was the highest-grossing animated film of all time, though it's considered still part of the current [[Film/DisneyLiveActionRemakes trend of live-action remakes]] by Disney, and Disney itself does not recognize the record as such for this film, claiming that ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'' (released later in the same year) gets the title.
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''The Lion King'' is the 2019 photorealistic computer animated remake of the 1994 Franchise/{{Disney animated|Canon}} epic ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}''. It was directed by Creator/JonFavreau, director of 2016's wildly successful live-action/CGI adaptation of ''[[Film/TheJungleBook2016 The Jungle Book]]'', and brought to screen using the same highly photorealistic CGI techniques by Creator/MovingPictureCompany as that film employed. The screenplay was written by Jeff Nathanson, with ''Franchise/TheLionKing'' franchise veterans Thomas Schumacher (a producer of the original film) and Julie Taymor (director of the [[Theatre/TheLionKing Broadway adaptation]]) serving as executive producers. The film was released in the United States on July 19, 2019,[[note]]The international release began in China on July 12.[[/note]] and from 2019 (when it surpassed ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' for the title) to 2023 (when it was itself surpassed by ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'') was the highest-grossing animated film of all time, though it's and, despite being animated, is considered still part of the current [[Film/DisneyLiveActionRemakes trend of live-action remakes]] by Disney, and Disney itself does not recognize the record as such for this film, claiming that ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'' (released later in the same year) gets the title.
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** In the original film, Nala looking for help in the jungle is a brief mere one line reference that she utters during her argument with Simba. Here, she is shown having a strong desire to overthrow Scar either via a rebellion, or leaving the Pridelands to look for help to get him off the throne, and gaining an escape scene.
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** In the original film, Nala looking for help in the jungle is a brief mere one line reference that she utters during her argument with Simba. Here, she is shown having a strong desire to overthrow Scar either via a rebellion, or leaving the Pridelands to look for help to get him off the throne, and gaining an escape scene.scene - thanks to Zazu distracting Scar and the hyenas, which in turn retroactively explains why Zazu was imprisoned in the original animated film.
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Scar, when attempting to protest Simba's claim that he killed Mufusa, claims to have seen the look of fear in Mufusa's eyes as he was killed. Sarabi, however, points out that he had previously claimed to have not made it to the gorge in time, so how exactly did he see the look in Mufusa's eyes? At this point, Scar gives up trying to defend himself and just orders the hyenas to attack.
