Technically, they could've just made a movie about Scar. In the original movie, it's implied he was constantly abused and bullied by the other lions and he has such an interesting backstory that deserved to be explored
I’m continually baffled how Azlan was brought to life so much better and with more expression over 20 years ago than whatever this is. Oh wait. Probably because Narnia was made by artists and filmmakers who actually gave a shit
I just wish this was 2D animated, because it would feel like a prequel to the original, not the live action. Heck, even if it were 3D (not photorealistic) it would probably also be more exciting because we'd see these characters in a new way- like a “then vs now” thing
If it’s a prequel, then that means this scenario of a movie happened before the actual movie lion king. I want to see the characters and it’s glorious 2-D.
The only thing that intrigues me is how this is a new story instead of a retread of old material like the original was. I'm not sure if that will translate into a good movie though. I find it funny how the 2019 Lion King was marketed as live-action until it crossed the threshold for "highest grossing animated film," then suddenly it was "photo realistic animation." Convenient...
@@Monster004KT As far as I know, the only "real" shot is the opening sunrise. All other animal and landscape shots were CGI. However, Disney marketed it as "live-action" and only changed their minds made enough to break the record.
No thanks. I’d rather watch Lion King II: Simba’s Pride or even the original Lion King again in honor of its 30th anniversary. On a side note, I can hardly believe The Lion King is going to be turning 30 years old! 😁
@@annien.1727 Good luck, cuz boy howdy, are you gonna need it. Tbh, in my head, I'd probably wanna try working with Indie teams instead, and not big corps that seem to spit out a lot of junk. Like current Disney. Glitch Productions is eating Disney's lunch right now as it's a much smaller team and all the merch you buy means it goes straight to all of the people who actually do the animating, story boarding, voice acting, shading, coloring, and so on. If you do work with current Disney, make sure you get an iron clad contract, cuz they could end up taking more money than they should from you, or they'll put you out to pasture and not take you back to the stable to be fed. Essentially putting you into hiatus for months. Disney one time put some dude on hiatus for several months, he wasn't allowed to find another job according to his contract. He waited and waited until they wanted him to perform again, but after several months, they basically told him in a nutshell that he was fired. If my memory is correct, he was an animal trainer/performer who had pets who he trained. Those pets got fired when their master got fired. It happened a few years back. With that knowledge, you ABSOLUTELY need yourself an iron clad contract. Cuz at this point Disney with that info, you know that you don't want to be on a so called "hiatus" and your contract needs to keep things like that away. If Disney doesn't need you, then you need to make sure that your contract states that you're allowed to work at jobs outside of Disney. Something like that at least. So that you won't get the surprise boot after several months of just waiting for them to contact you for some work. I also recommend looking up a media channel that goes by the name of ClownfishTV. They have a ton of information about Disney. They do a lot of news coverage of Disney. They had experience working with Disney in the past and bring up bits of their past and tell us how things would kinda work.
@brianrussell6807 😡No, it's NOT! Disney will NEVER sink as long as there's still a chance to make it float again! And I'm fighting for that chance! I'm NOT giving up on Disney anytime soon! Whatever it takes, I WILL make Disney float again, this time, for good!
The biggest sin in these lion king cgi monstrosities is that lions, and big cats in general, are extremely expressive, but the animators didn't spend enough time to learn how they emote. Compared to classic disney, where they would bring in live animals for the animators to spend time with until they got it all right. At the very least, they should have had the animators spend more time working with experts that have worked with big cats and know how they emote... there are dozens of them at Animal kingdom who they could have worked with. I doubt they did more than watch the original animation, and try to make it as "realistic" as possible. So instead of being based on actual animals' movements, they made a muted caricature of a caricature.
I got some insight from a couple of colleagues that worked on the lion king remake. The lions were more expressive but the director and others higher up would constantly argue that real lions wouldn't emote like that and tell them to tone it down. The animators I talked to felt the lions had more potential to be appealing than what they ended up as. It's really too bad.
@@ShariVoffs Spoken as someone who originally didn't mind the lack of facial expressions, that's a shame. Knowing it was in the works/doable within the programming and work schedual, but non-expert people, who probably didn't go out to do any reachers, decided they somehow knew better. I know so many people who didn't like the 2019 movie, partly due to the lack of expressions, and to know that there could have been a chance for them to appriciate the movie a bit more as well.
Glad you brought this up! The 2019 remake didn’t recaptured the magic the OG Lion King has given us. The teaser of Mufasa makes it looked soulless and unengaging.
So Mufasa and Scar are not brothers and Scar (Taka) was the true prince but for some reason Mufasa was made king? If Scar got dethroned why is he still able to hang around like a peasant and left to plot revenge while his "brother" is able to populate the pride? If Scar was really that bad he'd be banished, not kept around like a nanny while Mufasa kept busy being king. Remember how Mufasa scolded Scar for missing Simba's birth? That's just rubbing salt in the wound about him taking Scar's throne. How does that make Mufasa a good guy? Scar has every right to deny Mufasa or Simba as his king.
Kiara is gonna be canon in this live action franchise, so that means there must be a Kovu somewhere. Since Mufasa and Scar are not biologiacal brother, it could imply that they are gonna make Kovu the biological son of Scar like the crew of the sequel wanted at first but it was scrapped for the... family implications. That would mean at the end that both Mufasa and Scar legacies are going to share the throne because Kiara will marry Kovu and make him the rightful king.
Taka was the next in line as king, but taka takes mufasa in as a brother when he was an orphan. Most likely taka wasn't fit to be king and he stepped down. Or mufasa fought for sarabi and her love, as taka loved sarabi also. Mufasa properly didn't want to let go of taka, as he loved him and was thankful for taking him in.
It might make sense if Scar is Sarabi’s younger brother and both are the cubs of the previous Lion King, then Sarabi marries Mufasa, making him eligible for being king, and Scar and Sarabi’s father chooses Mufasa over Scar due to Mufasa either being stronger than Scar or because he does something heroic.
@@Snekfan88 but the sequel also had Nuka mention that Kovu isnt even Scar's son and Vitani didnt even correct him, so no incest. Also, to cover the "he's adopted so he's legally her cousin", we're not even sure if Zira is even Scar's mate or if Nuka and Vitani are his. For all we know, Zira is just his most loyal follower, Nuka and Vitani were cubs from a different male and Scar just tolerated their existence while enabling Zira fanaticism
they already did..for that lions guard tv show. they changed his original NAME and how he got his scar and why scar is who he is. instead of taka he is now calles askari and instead of him getting his scar from a murder attempt on mufasa gone wrong and him being saved by mufasa - its a cobra now. bro was patroling and got bit by a cobra..in the eye..and the venom made him evil. yep.
@@zimtfuchs3093 That sounds so fucking stupid. If a cobra bites you in the eye, it doesn't make you evil, it makes you fucking dead. Oh, and that shit doesn't make sense additionally because wouldn't a fucking cobra bite by your eye FUCKING BLIND YOU in the slim chance you survive?
Disney be like: "People don't seem to like our sequels anymore, and they also hate the fact that we create soulless remakes of our old movies using our public's nostalgia and still getting it wrong. Mmmmm. What can we do?...... Oh I know! How about a prequel of the remake of an ancient movie, without understanding what made the original one so loved..."
How do you know it will be soulles when you only seen just one trailer? I mean what the f... Are you a fortune teller or what? Go and watch the movie in december and after you watched then you can say it's soulles or not. I'm angry about the people like you who says that before it's out that ThIsWiLlBeBaD F off everyone. Watch that movie for once. It's telling you a story. A stroy from what you can learn something.
@@matekiraly46 Bro I meant that the remake of the Lion King is soulless. Making the Lion King real is just not working since animation gave it tones of facial emotions, which the remake is totally missing. I'm no fortune teller, but with the way Disney is treating their properties and neglecting the quality over quantity is something that I can predict that it's never a good thing. The movie will possibly be amazing scenaristicly and Disney will maybe correct a few things, which is something that I wish for, because it pains me to see the company that told us many good movies is trully painful.
Honestly when there ever gonna be returns of 2D and hand drawn animation in old days just like Disney renaissance era which is considered the best 2D and hand drawn animation era of all time
3d animation isn’t the problem, the problem is that they are hiring people who can’t give good storytelling. They need the most capable wrinters and directors in order to get there crap together
I always like to bring up Patton Oswalt's analogy about prequels - It's like someone coming up to you and saying "Do you like ice cream? Well here's a big bag of rock salt."
It pisses me off how much they kept saying they wanted to do a nature documentary with ultra realistic animals while deciding to do a freaking anthropomorphic musical instead! Don't they even know how difficult or even dangerous making nature documentaries are with editing out 99% of thousands of hours of footages of wild animals mostly doing nothing but sleep all day and all those camera teams trying to avoid disturbing or getting injured by nature? Ultra-realistic CGI that could replicate real life would be a relief for the nature documentary industry to cut down exhausting work, money and time. Prehistoric Planet did it right with extinct animals that Jon Favreau himself worked on!
I wish Disney stopped trying to make their classic villains "sympathetic." They did this to Maleficent, then Cruella, then Captain Hook, now they're doing it with Scar. We liked them for how dastardly they were, in a love-to-hate way, not because we know how they feel and think they all deserve a big hug. Disney doesn't seem to understand anymore what made people like their villains in the first place, hence why Magnifico turned out the way that he did.
4:35 - 4:50 Thank you, Aldone! I've been waiting to know if you'd do an editorial dissecting The Lion King in honor of its 30th anniversary and I'm glad to have the confirmation you are working on it. I feel like crying tears of joy. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
if i was ceo of Disney, than i will bring back 2d animation and hand drawn so i can make prequel movie with 2d or 3d just like Tinkerbell has her own movie i can do better than Bob Iger (just thinking about my future)
The CGI looks weird here. It's like they tried to make them more expressive but didn't go far enough so they still look emotionless but the CGI doesn't look as real as it did in the remake
A simple response to "why disney doesn't do 2D anymore": They don't have people that do 2D anymore. The skeleton-crew for 2D still in there is for concept art, everything else for drawn animation is 3rd party companies. Unfortunately I gave up the idea Disney will ever go back to 2D when I've read the sentece "I will triple your budged if you'll do it in CGI" for Zootopia. The Disney we know is long gone since a good 10 years. Now it's all milking franchises, play it as safe as possible and show off fancy graphics to maximise profits. I stopped watching new movies as a whole at this point with very few exceptions, but *especially* Disney ones I now pretend them to not even exist.
People dont understand, that Disney can no longer go back to 2D animation. They barely have any 2D animators left. Also they arent training new animators in 2D anymore. And you can tell this by "When you wish upon a studio" short almost all the 2D animated characters were off model and weird proportions.
The Lion King was the first film I ever saw in cinemas, and I’d a million times much rather see a 30th anniversary cinema re-release than go see Mufasa.
This is what happens when CGI becomes the main focus. People get lazy, many people rather do CGI over drawing or Practical effects in this day and age. CGI is hugely focused now. I never watched the 2019 movie of The Lion King. I refuse to do it. I will most likely do the same for this movie too. I pretty much walked away from Disney as a whole.
I think Disney 'Live Action' films are deteriorating. Cinderella was very good and worked in my opinion and Beauty and the Beast was okay but the others all seem to be lacking in some or multiple areas. Because Lion King is my favourite movie I strongly dislike the dishonourable remake.
Modern Disney desperately needs another "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" as far as ideas for live-action movies for the whole family that they haven't done before.
Yes, I also wanted this story to be in 2D and more for the 30th anniversary of The Lion King, as you said the animation is what made Disney.. I guess The Lion King 1 1/2 was the last animated movie from the Lion King franchise 5:46 and yes, because of the animation, that's why we were able to connect with the characters, that they were a reflection of the best of us and what we could be, and the settings felt magnificent and that it was possible to illustrate various scenes happening
People who say that "at least its an original idea" is wrong to me. This is just Disney trying to squeeze more out of their already existing IP. But I don't care anymore, I;m starting to not care about any move anymore to be honest
You're right but the sad thing is they can't go back to 2D animation after they shifted entirely to 3D. Disney shut down its 2D animation division over a decade ago, the costs to bring that back from scratch and the labor costs to make those hand drawn movies would be enormous with no guarantee they would make that money back. The public is also too used and preferenced to 3D movies despite the many advantages that 2D movies have, such as expressive animal characters that the og Lion King had. I'm just saying Lion King as a series is screwed over by the changing times. They should have done the prequel years ago while they still had the division.
What is even going ON in the trailer? I couldn't even make sense of it. For some reason, it gives me "lion king 1 1/2" vibes. The male lions better have testicles this time. If the people who made the movie "Beast" can give their realistic CGI lions testicles, then so can Disney, damn it!
what makes me mostly disgusted by these slops of soulless cgi remakes etc., how in this case they are now for the second time, retconning scars backstory and with this also mufasas. according to the light novel, scars birthname was taka. and as he always said, he was never one for brawls - he has brains. so mufasa was picked over him and scar plotted to get him killed by angering a buffallo or wilderbeast or something and his herd..which goes horribly wrong and instead scar almost dies and guess what: mufasa saves him. scar gets injured and from now one wears the name as a reminder of his failure - but mufasas actions are what gets him killed ultimately as scar knew mufasa would come to simbas aid which led to his demise. its a circle (of life, see what i did there). but recently i found out, for that tv spinoff thing the lions guard, they completely changed this from taka being now calles askari and him simply being bitten by a cobra in his eye during a patrol and the venom twisting his mind and giving him evil thoughts lol. so what they gonna do now, turn him into one of the tragic backstory sympathethic villains? because from what i read so far in other comments and what i can gather from the trailer, mufasa is the dick here taking the throne from its rightful heir LOL
Do we really need a 2024 prequel of a stunning, perfect classic, such as the one and only "THE LION KING" in full cgi, looking like a BBC channel documentary, with rich Hollywood celebrities as voice actors? The only acceptable answer is: NO. NO, WE DON'T. But for some unknown reason The Mouse keeps thinking we do. No, we don't! CREATE SOMETHING NEW, BUT NEW, DISNEY. NEW. Do you know what "new" means?
there's a non-disney 2d movie (The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim) that will be release at the same time as mufasa and the lion king. disney will regret to not make 2d movie. it really break my heart the bob iger killed it. I expect mufasa be worse than madame web.
Disney lost my trust made good movies because after Moana the movies are ok or bad and the only movie that was good after Moana is Encanto Also wish Disney stopped live action remakes.
Disney can no longer make 2D animated feature films because they scrapped their entire department and all the tools necessary to produce them. They won't invest in putting a new department together for traditionally animated movies unless the market changes and it becomes worth it to do so, with them having to be convinced that 2D movies will be more profitable over time than their current 3D computer animated ones. I unfortunately do not see that happening anytime soon.
The people at Hollywood are basically being babies following logic from toddler morals. I bet most of them thought “hey, 2-D isn’t good enough because it’s only 2, not 3. 3-D must be better in numbers” and “people constantly say we must take responsibility in reality, so let’s make every dumb child fiction into a real non-fiction like story”. As you can tell, this is stupid baby logic, and yet it’s modern Disney’s bread 🍞 and butter 🧈. Actually that’s an insult to Bread and Butter. The bakers in Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and even the Cinderella sequels are more memorable than the entirety of Disney’s recent projects, and the former two was confined to one song, and the latter had the baker appeared in the 3rd Cinderella movie just in a painting in the credits, yet that painting is more memorable than anything in Strange World.
@JoshuaLowe-ci3wo We knew way more about Scar than Mufasa. Mufasa hardly has any screen time in the original movie. The only thing we knew about Mufasa is people revered him as a great king. With Scar we knew he hated Mufasa, we knew his ambition, his desire, how he ruled as a king, how he became king and his downfall. The Lion King basically showed how 2 Lions rose to power to become King. (Scar and Simba.) Many people don't really care about Zira.
Lion King is the biggest disney animated product. So many sequels, spin offs, broadway plays, a live action & now a prequel. Disney is always going to try to make money out of it.
Seriously, Disney has the rights to Anastasia, Thumbelina, Ferngully, the PageMaster, titan a E, gargoyles, and even Atlantis the lost Empire. They could’ve done something with those franchises instead of messing around With the lion King. Or two other fairytale stuff like Red Ridinghood, the little angel, The magic treehouse or Candyland!
NAH. Not Atlantis. Let's keep that and Treasure Planet hidden. Niche Disney movies are the best and if they tried to touch them, it would be one of the worst moves from them. They would find a way to ruin them when they should simply relaunch them in a better quality and relaunch new merch for a boost. They're perfect as they are. They wouldn't be able to recreate such masterpieces in cgi. Cgi is not for Disney.
Y’know, instead of making either “live action” Lion Kings or the raceswapped Little Mermaid, Disney could adapt African mythology/folklore with a human protagonist(I know not all Africans are black, but you get the idea). And before you say “well they already made Lion King, which is set in Africa!”, they’ve done several movies set in France, so what’s stopping them from making a few more set in a whole-ass continent?? Oh wait…that would require effort, talent and creativity. Which Modern Disney’s clearly allergic to. My bad!🤪 Don’t mind me, I’ll just get “Kirikou et la Sorciére”(which is not only an underrated masterpiece, but also exactly what I mentioned, I want from Disney above😂) on DVD.
In these years it’s hard to imagine to see the great leader of animation be at this level but Disney had its time now we need to see where animation its self will handle the world
There is a book of mufasa and scar, when they were younger, it was made by Disney, but I'm pretty sure they said it wasn't canon anymore? Or it never was idk
I will say this on the slightly new designs remind me of the disney film The Wild and the live action Jungle Book with how their faces are done. I also think if the 2019 Lion King went with how they are doing the face in this film but keep the better animation quality people would see the expressions easier and not need to be good a animal body language.
@@thefeatheredbutterfly7335 yeah I’m fine. It’s just that people on the internet don’t like opinions. It wasn’t actually a death threat i misremembered but it was still a threat
SAME, I ACTUALLY LOVED IT. THEY ARE JUST SO BLINDED BY NOSTALGIA TO EVEN ACCEPT A NEW VERSION. THE ANIMATED COUNTER PART IS STILL THERE, IT'S NOT GOING ANYWHERE. WHATEVER, I CAN'T FOR THIS UPCOMING TLK MOVIE.
I think my big issue with all of these remakes is the underlining tone that they have and signal. These are marketed as being the "grown up version" of a lot of these movies. They're looking to attract the millennials and gen xers who grew up with them, and the academy even markets them as such. Animation already has it hard but now we have one of the biggest outputs of it consistently dragging it through the mud
The irony is that for some of those people the better way they would be winning them over would be by producing *new* 2D animated movies in the vain of their 90s classics, not by remaking all those said classics and potentially ruining or taking away from what was loved about them. These remakes have just been another excuse for Disney to keep wanting to turn their backs on their 2D animation the same as with their 3D movies like Frozen. And yes, to even think of Disney insinuating with these remakes that their original animated classics are only "childish kiddie fare" is very saddening as well as feeling insulting to the very art of animation that was once so important to them, after inspiring people like myself to even grow up to see the beauty in animation as an art form to begin with.
@@nicksorenson940 I honestly think the academy goes out of its way to never give animation its roses. Beauty and the beast almost nabbing best picture spook them so much that they created the best animated picture award just so they could box the whole medium.
The parameters on Disney's movie generating AI need adjusted, it's going off-prompt. Perhaps they should try a different CFG scale, or replacing Bob Iger.
I'd prefer to have the 2D animation. It's much more saturated, and you know how the characters all feel immediately. And don't get me started on all those beautiful watercolor-esk backgrounds. ^u^ I think that a 2D movie about the book versions of when Mufasa and Taka were young and getting to see how they ended up with a sorta falling out in their future. But in the books, Mufasa is of royal blood and same for Taka. But in the "live action" movie trailer, it states that Mufasa was actually not of royal standing and could've been adopted by Taka's family. Which makes for an interesting plot for sure, but I'm not sure if I'm going to be seeing the movie in theaters at all. I'm going to save my time and money for Sonic movie 3 with Shadow The Hedgehog in it. That is my one priority movie for the year and nothing else. I also expect that if I do get curious about how the "L.A." Mufasa movie is, somebody will have pirated it, I'm sure.
Nature docs are so much better. The only issue with them is they film for a few months then leave. I miss Big Cat Diaries. They filmed for months, took a few months off, then came back so you could see what was happening with the same cat families you knew.
This wouldn't be so bad if they at least did a compromise and animated their faces to have expressions. Someone on youtube did a version and it looked great. Using cgi for animal movies is fine if they just use it for texturing and backgrounds
They really saw Mufasa and Scar and went “Hey let’s steal Nuka’s backstory and put it on the actual bad guy instead of letting the morally grey character keep it” Think about it, Nuka was Zira’s son (possibly Scar’s too) and yet was passed over for Kovu, who isn’t even Scar’s son, as Scar’s chosen one. Nuka doesn’t try to kill Kovu, no, but the origin to his hatred is very similar. I’d rather have a movie about Scar titled “Askari” (allegedly, it was original name in the TLG universe).
That’s what I don’t understand. Disney can make the argument of this would flop if it was a traditional animated movie, but the original is still top 15 of highest grossing animated movies of all time. Not to mention with it being a sequel/prequel to the original would mean more money, possibly surpassing the original. If Disney believes more sequels mean more money, then a sequel/prequel to the original Lion King would be a win win for both sides, if done correctly and not poorly.
You are saying exactly what I have been thinking: This film should have been made in 2D hand drawn animation to tell this story instead of pushing “live action 3D computer animation” on us all because they saw the “live action” Lion King made the figures it shouldn’t have and now they put themselves in an awkward position of releasing this crap the same day as Sonic 3 and I don’t need to tell you which will easily do better in the box office. This is just blind executives thinking they can beat Sonic with a popular franchise that wasn’t even executed in the better medium to tell a story.
It's inevitable that this film will be defeated by Sonic 3 It won't going to make 1 billion dollars like the 2019 remake who doesn't deserve to be the highest grossing animated feature of all time because they have CG animals pretending to be real that has nothing special And if this prequel along with Snow White bombs it will be the end of the remakes As much as the direct to video sequels came to an end under the new leadership of the animation division with the new leadership on the live-action division the days of the live-action remakes are counting since the disappointing results of The Little mermaid remake especially when it didn't reach the billion-dollar line as Alice in Wonderland Beauty and the beast Aladdin and of course the Lion King
It's too early to criticize the upcoming film. Besides, it's not even finished developing yet. Who knows? Maybe it'll be a slight improvement from The Lion King 2019. Personally, I'm both excited and nervous for the film.
Oh, come on at least it’s telling its own story. It’s not like a remake. It’s like original story. It’s literally original story and people wanted to see what Mufasa was like before the events of lion King and you guys are giving this hate for it when it doesn’t deserve this much hate it for the first time it’s actually telling its own snoring not a remake from a Disney animation like the last one.
As soon I saw the trailer, I honestly didn’t really cared about. And I also have to remind myself that this is about the same character that gets killed by a B*slap
Geez. It’s just the first trailer. Give it a chance. We didn’t even see the movie but it’s already getting hate. Maybe, Disney will surprise us and it’s better than the first one.
hey you're right and it's only made even more stupid considering they now own National Geographic and is even places on front of the app with all their other main ips! This is just more smooth brained Disney stunts.
Technically, they could've just made a movie about Scar. In the original movie, it's implied he was constantly abused and bullied by the other lions and he has such an interesting backstory that deserved to be explored
Disney loves its villains, a Scar origin story seems like such an obvious choice 🤔
I don't need an origin story for Scar that paints him in the right though.
@@HydragonofDeathso have it be a shared story with Mufasa then....but it's current Disney and they don't even know how to treat their own IP anymore.
If this movie is profitable for Disney, expect a Scar prequel too
This is a great idea… I mean it worked for Maleficent.
Mufasa's weakness is family. Not because of Simba, but because he continued to let Scar walk all over him, until Scar killed him.
Okay who keep afraid this person is dumb like you
Shut up
Actually it more deep
Thats not a weakness its strenght
Mufasa properly didn't want to let go of scar because he took him in as an orphan, and he was thankful for that.
I’m continually baffled how Azlan was brought to life so much better and with more expression over 20 years ago than whatever this is. Oh wait. Probably because Narnia was made by artists and filmmakers who actually gave a shit
I just wish this was 2D animated, because it would feel like a prequel to the original, not the live action. Heck, even if it were 3D (not photorealistic) it would probably also be more exciting because we'd see these characters in a new way- like a “then vs now” thing
If it’s a prequel, then that means this scenario of a movie happened before the actual movie lion king. I want to see the characters and it’s glorious 2-D.
If the writing's bad, 2D won't save it. Look at Home on the Range or for something more recent, the Velma series with Mindy Kaling.
This isn’t supposed to be a prequel to
the original tho. These are 2 separate stories. Listen to the dialogue changes in the remake
The only thing that intrigues me is how this is a new story instead of a retread of old material like the original was. I'm not sure if that will translate into a good movie though.
I find it funny how the 2019 Lion King was marketed as live-action until it crossed the threshold for "highest grossing animated film," then suddenly it was "photo realistic animation." Convenient...
It's An Animated & Live Action both
@@Monster004KT As far as I know, the only "real" shot is the opening sunrise. All other animal and landscape shots were CGI.
However, Disney marketed it as "live-action" and only changed their minds made enough to break the record.
@@crimsong8068 that's what i'm saying it is animated but in a live action way
No thanks. I’d rather watch Lion King II: Simba’s Pride or even the original Lion King again in honor of its 30th anniversary.
On a side note, I can hardly believe The Lion King is going to be turning 30 years old! 😁
Yeah, mind blowing, isn't it?
Same here
Feels like yesterday
What about 1 1/2? I thought it was a great movie.
2D animations is what made Disney Disney!
Agreed. That's why I'm going to get a job there. I'm planning to bring 2D animation back to Disney.
@@annien.1727 Good luck, cuz boy howdy, are you gonna need it. Tbh, in my head, I'd probably wanna try working with Indie teams instead, and not big corps that seem to spit out a lot of junk. Like current Disney. Glitch Productions is eating Disney's lunch right now as it's a much smaller team and all the merch you buy means it goes straight to all of the people who actually do the animating, story boarding, voice acting, shading, coloring, and so on.
If you do work with current Disney, make sure you get an iron clad contract, cuz they could end up taking more money than they should from you, or they'll put you out to pasture and not take you back to the stable to be fed. Essentially putting you into hiatus for months. Disney one time put some dude on hiatus for several months, he wasn't allowed to find another job according to his contract. He waited and waited until they wanted him to perform again, but after several months, they basically told him in a nutshell that he was fired. If my memory is correct, he was an animal trainer/performer who had pets who he trained. Those pets got fired when their master got fired. It happened a few years back.
With that knowledge, you ABSOLUTELY need yourself an iron clad contract. Cuz at this point Disney with that info, you know that you don't want to be on a so called "hiatus" and your contract needs to keep things like that away. If Disney doesn't need you, then you need to make sure that your contract states that you're allowed to work at jobs outside of Disney. Something like that at least. So that you won't get the surprise boot after several months of just waiting for them to contact you for some work.
I also recommend looking up a media channel that goes by the name of ClownfishTV. They have a ton of information about Disney. They do a lot of news coverage of Disney. They had experience working with Disney in the past and bring up bits of their past and tell us how things would kinda work.
You do animation
@@annien.1727 I'd work somewhere else besides Disney, it's a sinking ship at this point dude
@brianrussell6807 😡No, it's NOT! Disney will NEVER sink as long as there's still a chance to make it float again! And I'm fighting for that chance! I'm NOT giving up on Disney anytime soon!
Whatever it takes, I WILL make Disney float again, this time, for good!
The biggest sin in these lion king cgi monstrosities is that lions, and big cats in general, are extremely expressive, but the animators didn't spend enough time to learn how they emote. Compared to classic disney, where they would bring in live animals for the animators to spend time with until they got it all right. At the very least, they should have had the animators spend more time working with experts that have worked with big cats and know how they emote... there are dozens of them at Animal kingdom who they could have worked with.
I doubt they did more than watch the original animation, and try to make it as "realistic" as possible. So instead of being based on actual animals' movements, they made a muted caricature of a caricature.
Shut up
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I got some insight from a couple of colleagues that worked on the lion king remake. The lions were more expressive but the director and others higher up would constantly argue that real lions wouldn't emote like that and tell them to tone it down. The animators I talked to felt the lions had more potential to be appealing than what they ended up as.
It's really too bad.
@@ShariVoffs Spoken as someone who originally didn't mind the lack of facial expressions, that's a shame. Knowing it was in the works/doable within the programming and work schedual, but non-expert people, who probably didn't go out to do any reachers, decided they somehow knew better. I know so many people who didn't like the 2019 movie, partly due to the lack of expressions, and to know that there could have been a chance for them to appriciate the movie a bit more as well.
@@ShariVoffs That wouldn't surprise me at all... disney executives seem to exist just to stifle the amazing talent of their subordinates.
Glad you brought this up! The 2019 remake didn’t recaptured the magic the OG Lion King has given us. The teaser of Mufasa makes it looked soulless and unengaging.
So Mufasa and Scar are not brothers and Scar (Taka) was the true prince but for some reason Mufasa was made king? If Scar got dethroned why is he still able to hang around like a peasant and left to plot revenge while his "brother" is able to populate the pride? If Scar was really that bad he'd be banished, not kept around like a nanny while Mufasa kept busy being king.
Remember how Mufasa scolded Scar for missing Simba's birth? That's just rubbing salt in the wound about him taking Scar's throne. How does that make Mufasa a good guy? Scar has every right to deny Mufasa or Simba as his king.
Exactly, in this scenario Mufasa is the usurper and scar the rightful heir 😮 I can't believe they are doing this
Kiara is gonna be canon in this live action franchise, so that means there must be a Kovu somewhere. Since Mufasa and Scar are not biologiacal brother, it could imply that they are gonna make Kovu the biological son of Scar like the crew of the sequel wanted at first but it was scrapped for the... family implications.
That would mean at the end that both Mufasa and Scar legacies are going to share the throne because Kiara will marry Kovu and make him the rightful king.
Taka was the next in line as king, but taka takes mufasa in as a brother when he was an orphan. Most likely taka wasn't fit to be king and he stepped down. Or mufasa fought for sarabi and her love, as taka loved sarabi also. Mufasa properly didn't want to let go of taka, as he loved him and was thankful for taking him in.
It might make sense if Scar is Sarabi’s younger brother and both are the cubs of the previous Lion King, then Sarabi marries Mufasa, making him eligible for being king, and Scar and Sarabi’s father chooses Mufasa over Scar due to Mufasa either being stronger than Scar or because he does something heroic.
@@Snekfan88 but the sequel also had Nuka mention that Kovu isnt even Scar's son and Vitani didnt even correct him, so no incest. Also, to cover the "he's adopted so he's legally her cousin", we're not even sure if Zira is even Scar's mate or if Nuka and Vitani are his. For all we know, Zira is just his most loyal follower, Nuka and Vitani were cubs from a different male and Scar just tolerated their existence while enabling Zira fanaticism
I'm afraid that scar's backstory Will be retconned
Same here. I am entirely convinced that Disney will make Mufasa an asshole, because if Disney likes anything, it's making their villains sympathetic.
Get ready to see one of Disney's most diabolical villains turned into someone you'd sympathize...
Sigh
they already did..for that lions guard tv show.
they changed his original NAME and how he got his scar and why scar is who he is. instead of taka he is now calles askari and instead of him getting his scar from a murder attempt on mufasa gone wrong and him being saved by mufasa - its a cobra now. bro was patroling and got bit by a cobra..in the eye..and the venom made him evil. yep.
@@zimtfuchs3093 That sounds so fucking stupid. If a cobra bites you in the eye, it doesn't make you evil, it makes you fucking dead. Oh, and that shit doesn't make sense additionally because wouldn't a fucking cobra bite by your eye FUCKING BLIND YOU in the slim chance you survive?
@@zimtfuchs3093 only in the animated version NOT in the live action version right Man?
As Rex from Toy Story franchise would say: I Hate All This Uncertainty!
Don't watch it
I wish they used animation similar to the 90’s animation or Klaus
I think we all prefer a Lion King 0, rather than a Mufasa live action.
You don’t want no Lion King movie to exist?
Speak for yourself, I’m really excited for this 😅
Disney be like: "People don't seem to like our sequels anymore, and they also hate the fact that we create soulless remakes of our old movies using our public's nostalgia and still getting it wrong. Mmmmm. What can we do?...... Oh I know! How about a prequel of the remake of an ancient movie, without understanding what made the original one so loved..."
How do you know it will be soulles when you only seen just one trailer? I mean what the f...
Are you a fortune teller or what? Go and watch the movie in december and after you watched then you can say it's soulles or not. I'm angry about the people like you who says that before it's out that ThIsWiLlBeBaD
F off everyone. Watch that movie for once. It's telling you a story. A stroy from what you can learn something.
@@matekiraly46
Bro I meant that the remake of the Lion King is soulless. Making the Lion King real is just not working since animation gave it tones of facial emotions, which the remake is totally missing. I'm no fortune teller, but with the way Disney is treating their properties and neglecting the quality over quantity is something that I can predict that it's never a good thing.
The movie will possibly be amazing scenaristicly and Disney will maybe correct a few things, which is something that I wish for, because it pains me to see the company that told us many good movies is trully painful.
Atleast give it a chance@@eitanbitan8791
Nah live action looks more exciting
People will only become more nostalgic for Lion King 1 1/2 and Simba's Pride since they had more soul than this slop
Who in the heck thought making this movie was a good idea
This concept would have ROCKED as 2D animated movie ngl
Honestly when there ever gonna be returns of 2D and hand drawn animation in old days just like Disney renaissance era which is considered the best 2D and hand drawn animation era of all time
3d animation isn’t the problem, the problem is that they are hiring people who can’t give good storytelling. They need the most capable wrinters and directors in order to get there crap together
Kids do not like 2d movies, everyone asking for 2d theatrical movies are not in the 6-11 range (the target demographic for 99% of animated movies)
@@mariastevenson9227 it’s the millennials that are begging for 2d to come back, and I’m no millennial, I’m gen z
They'll likely do a nostalgia-driven return to 2D, but I doubt people will be happy since it'll probably be intermingled with 3D films.
Never, sadly enough! Computers are here to stay!
I always like to bring up Patton Oswalt's analogy about prequels - It's like someone coming up to you and saying "Do you like ice cream? Well here's a big bag of rock salt."
It pisses me off how much they kept saying they wanted to do a nature documentary with ultra realistic animals while deciding to do a freaking anthropomorphic musical instead! Don't they even know how difficult or even dangerous making nature documentaries are with editing out 99% of thousands of hours of footages of wild animals mostly doing nothing but sleep all day and all those camera teams trying to avoid disturbing or getting injured by nature? Ultra-realistic CGI that could replicate real life would be a relief for the nature documentary industry to cut down exhausting work, money and time. Prehistoric Planet did it right with extinct animals that Jon Favreau himself worked on!
I'm avoiding this like the plague, AGAIN. I'm sick of these remakes, this isn't what Walt wanted.
They don't make 2D because there are pretty much no 2D animators in Disney anymore except Eric Goldberg lol
Sad, knowing that there are people who do have passion and desire to work on 2D animation things
I wish Disney stopped trying to make their classic villains "sympathetic." They did this to Maleficent, then Cruella, then Captain Hook, now they're doing it with Scar. We liked them for how dastardly they were, in a love-to-hate way, not because we know how they feel and think they all deserve a big hug. Disney doesn't seem to understand anymore what made people like their villains in the first place, hence why Magnifico turned out the way that he did.
TBF in the case of Captain hook, he already HAD a sympathetic backstory, but agree 100% on the others.
@@HydragonofDeath Yeah, you're right now that I think about Captain Hook. He did lose his hand to Peter Pan (who's not exactly a saint himself).
4:35 - 4:50 Thank you, Aldone! I've been waiting to know if you'd do an editorial dissecting The Lion King in honor of its 30th anniversary and I'm glad to have the confirmation you are working on it. I feel like crying tears of joy. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
if i was ceo of Disney, than i will bring back 2d animation and hand drawn so i can make prequel movie with 2d or 3d just like Tinkerbell has her own movie i can do better than Bob Iger (just thinking about my future)
The CGI looks weird here. It's like they tried to make them more expressive but didn't go far enough so they still look emotionless but the CGI doesn't look as real as it did in the remake
A simple response to "why disney doesn't do 2D anymore": They don't have people that do 2D anymore. The skeleton-crew for 2D still in there is for concept art, everything else for drawn animation is 3rd party companies.
Unfortunately I gave up the idea Disney will ever go back to 2D when I've read the sentece "I will triple your budged if you'll do it in CGI" for Zootopia.
The Disney we know is long gone since a good 10 years. Now it's all milking franchises, play it as safe as possible and show off fancy graphics to maximise profits. I stopped watching new movies as a whole at this point with very few exceptions, but *especially* Disney ones I now pretend them to not even exist.
Still waiting on an Yzma live-action origin story...
DO you mean from the emperor's new groove me to.also urselor I wanna know how she got banished and has tentacles.
It’s not disappointing, it’s unnecessary
Its both imo
Damn I felt this .
People dont understand, that Disney can no longer go back to 2D animation. They barely have any 2D animators left.
Also they arent training new animators in 2D anymore. And you can tell this by "When you wish upon a studio" short almost all the 2D animated characters were off model and weird proportions.
They had to bring a ton of their old animators back for it, too. As of this year they only have several 2D animators employed by the studio full-time
having a movie on Mufasa and not having James Earl Jones in the cast is a crime at this point
Do you want young mufasa to be voiced by a grown man?dumb comments
James Earl Jones is retired dude. The guy is almost 90 years old. I would agree with you if they did a Mufasa movie at least 10 years ago but oh well.
@@syzorst aren't they using small mufasa how would he voice a small mufasa
The Lion King was the first film I ever saw in cinemas, and I’d a million times much rather see a 30th anniversary cinema re-release than go see Mufasa.
This is what happens when CGI becomes the main focus. People get lazy, many people rather do CGI over drawing or Practical effects in this day and age. CGI is hugely focused now. I never watched the 2019 movie of The Lion King. I refuse to do it. I will most likely do the same for this movie too. I pretty much walked away from Disney as a whole.
can some one please tell me why i had to argue why the "live action" wasnt as good as the cartoon
I think Disney 'Live Action' films are deteriorating. Cinderella was very good and worked in my opinion and Beauty and the Beast was okay but the others all seem to be lacking in some or multiple areas.
Because Lion King is my favourite movie I strongly dislike the dishonourable remake.
Modern Disney desperately needs another "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" as far as ideas for live-action movies for the whole family that they haven't done before.
Jungle book was pretty damn good too
Yes, I also wanted this story to be in 2D and more for the 30th anniversary of The Lion King, as you said the animation is what made Disney.. I guess The Lion King 1 1/2 was the last animated movie from the Lion King franchise
5:46 and yes, because of the animation, that's why we were able to connect with the characters, that they were a reflection of the best of us and what we could be, and the settings felt magnificent and that it was possible to illustrate various scenes happening
It would be way cheaper, but more time consuming to make 2D Lion King movie, but I'd pay many times to see it.
People who say that "at least its an original idea" is wrong to me. This is just Disney trying to squeeze more out of their already existing IP. But I don't care anymore, I;m starting to not care about any move anymore to be honest
You're right but the sad thing is they can't go back to 2D animation after they shifted entirely to 3D. Disney shut down its 2D animation division over a decade ago, the costs to bring that back from scratch and the labor costs to make those hand drawn movies would be enormous with no guarantee they would make that money back. The public is also too used and preferenced to 3D movies despite the many advantages that 2D movies have, such as expressive animal characters that the og Lion King had.
I'm just saying Lion King as a series is screwed over by the changing times. They should have done the prequel years ago while they still had the division.
Mufasa might show us how Scar git his scar more accurately than the Lion Guard
What is even going ON in the trailer? I couldn't even make sense of it. For some reason, it gives me "lion king 1 1/2" vibes.
The male lions better have testicles this time. If the people who made the movie "Beast" can give their realistic CGI lions testicles, then so can Disney, damn it!
what makes me mostly disgusted by these slops of soulless cgi remakes etc., how in this case they are now for the second time, retconning scars backstory and with this also mufasas.
according to the light novel, scars birthname was taka. and as he always said, he was never one for brawls - he has brains. so mufasa was picked over him and scar plotted to get him killed by angering a buffallo or wilderbeast or something and his herd..which goes horribly wrong and instead scar almost dies and guess what: mufasa saves him. scar gets injured and from now one wears the name as a reminder of his failure - but mufasas actions are what gets him killed ultimately as scar knew mufasa would come to simbas aid which led to his demise. its a circle (of life, see what i did there).
but recently i found out, for that tv spinoff thing the lions guard, they completely changed this from taka being now calles askari and him simply being bitten by a cobra in his eye during a patrol and the venom twisting his mind and giving him evil thoughts lol.
so what they gonna do now, turn him into one of the tragic backstory sympathethic villains? because from what i read so far in other comments and what i can gather from the trailer, mufasa is the dick here taking the throne from its rightful heir LOL
Do we really need a 2024 prequel of a stunning, perfect classic, such as the one and only "THE LION KING" in full cgi, looking like a BBC channel documentary, with rich Hollywood celebrities as voice actors? The only acceptable answer is: NO. NO, WE DON'T. But for some unknown reason The Mouse keeps thinking we do. No, we don't! CREATE SOMETHING NEW, BUT NEW, DISNEY. NEW. Do you know what "new" means?
there's a non-disney 2d movie (The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim) that will be release at the same time as mufasa and the lion king. disney will regret to not make 2d movie. it really break my heart the bob iger killed it. I expect mufasa be worse than madame web.
I plan to see the Lord of the Ring anime over this.
@@colbystearns5238me too. This upcoming animated 2d movie also proves that 2d isn't dead.
Disney lost my trust made good movies because after Moana the movies are ok or bad and the only movie that was good after Moana is Encanto
Also wish Disney stopped live action remakes.
I was waiting for your classic “I’m all done so goodbye!” 😆 there’s a vast difference between manufactured by a corporation and handmade with love.
Disney can no longer make 2D animated feature films because they scrapped their entire department and all the tools necessary to produce them. They won't invest in putting a new department together for traditionally animated movies unless the market changes and it becomes worth it to do so, with them having to be convinced that 2D movies will be more profitable over time than their current 3D computer animated ones. I unfortunately do not see that happening anytime soon.
The people at Hollywood are basically being babies following logic from toddler morals. I bet most of them thought “hey, 2-D isn’t good enough because it’s only 2, not 3. 3-D must be better in numbers” and “people constantly say we must take responsibility in reality, so let’s make every dumb child fiction into a real non-fiction like story”. As you can tell, this is stupid baby logic, and yet it’s modern Disney’s bread 🍞 and butter 🧈. Actually that’s an insult to Bread and Butter. The bakers in Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and even the Cinderella sequels are more memorable than the entirety of Disney’s recent projects, and the former two was confined to one song, and the latter had the baker appeared in the 3rd Cinderella movie just in a painting in the credits, yet that painting is more memorable than anything in Strange World.
Yay something else no one wanted!!!!
I feel disney should have made a movie about Scar, how he aligned with the hyenas, and what kind of relationship he had with Zira
They did Mufasa because we knew the least about him despite him being one of the most beloved characters in the original movie.
@@syzorst we didn't know too much about Scar or Zira either
@JoshuaLowe-ci3wo We knew way more about Scar than Mufasa. Mufasa hardly has any screen time in the original movie. The only thing we knew about Mufasa is people revered him as a great king. With Scar we knew he hated Mufasa, we knew his ambition, his desire, how he ruled as a king, how he became king and his downfall. The Lion King basically showed how 2 Lions rose to power to become King. (Scar and Simba.)
Many people don't really care about Zira.
I mean if fans for the sonic movienmanaged to get the design changed than surely disney fans can get the animation for this changed right
we dont want a animated film we want ultra realsitic
I showed the trailer to my younger brother and sister and they said the trailer looks weird.
Lion King is the biggest disney animated product. So many sequels, spin offs, broadway plays, a live action & now a prequel. Disney is always going to try to make money out of it.
Seriously, Disney has the rights to Anastasia, Thumbelina, Ferngully, the PageMaster, titan a E, gargoyles, and even Atlantis the lost Empire. They could’ve done something with those franchises instead of messing around With the lion King. Or two other fairytale stuff like Red Ridinghood, the little angel, The magic treehouse or Candyland!
NAH. Not Atlantis. Let's keep that and Treasure Planet hidden. Niche Disney movies are the best and if they tried to touch them, it would be one of the worst moves from them. They would find a way to ruin them when they should simply relaunch them in a better quality and relaunch new merch for a boost. They're perfect as they are. They wouldn't be able to recreate such masterpieces in cgi. Cgi is not for Disney.
i just checked the official disney trailer and they have deactivated comments xD
Y’know, instead of making either “live action” Lion Kings or the raceswapped Little Mermaid, Disney could adapt African mythology/folklore with a human protagonist(I know not all Africans are black, but you get the idea). And before you say “well they already made Lion King, which is set in Africa!”, they’ve done several movies set in France, so what’s stopping them from making a few more set in a whole-ass continent??
Oh wait…that would require effort, talent and creativity. Which Modern Disney’s clearly allergic to. My bad!🤪
Don’t mind me, I’ll just get “Kirikou et la Sorciére”(which is not only an underrated masterpiece, but also exactly what I mentioned, I want from Disney above😂) on DVD.
In these years it’s hard to imagine to see the great leader of animation be at this level but Disney had its time now we need to see where animation its self will handle the world
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There is a book of mufasa and scar, when they were younger, it was made by Disney, but I'm pretty sure they said it wasn't canon anymore? Or it never was idk
I will say this on the slightly new designs remind me of the disney film The Wild and the live action Jungle Book with how their faces are done. I also think if the 2019 Lion King went with how they are doing the face in this film but keep the better animation quality people would see the expressions easier and not need to be good a animal body language.
Lion King 1994 is my favorite movie from my childhood
All employees who could have done 2D animation, are gone. That’s why… 😢
Sonic 3 is going to obliterate Mufasa in the box office that’s my bet
#MakeClassicAnimationGreatAgain
Somebody actually sent me a threat because I said I liked the lion King remake
WOAH! Are you okay?!
@@thefeatheredbutterfly7335 yeah I’m fine. It’s just that people on the internet don’t like opinions. It wasn’t actually a death threat i misremembered but it was still a threat
SAME, I ACTUALLY LOVED IT. THEY ARE JUST SO BLINDED BY NOSTALGIA TO EVEN ACCEPT A NEW VERSION. THE ANIMATED COUNTER PART IS STILL THERE, IT'S NOT GOING ANYWHERE. WHATEVER, I CAN'T FOR THIS UPCOMING TLK MOVIE.
It Looks Like "The Wild" With RTX On!
Here we go again.
Can you please do a review of the rest of Sony animation?
They've should've made a movie about Shenzi Banzai and Ed and kept 2d animation instead of this CGI stuff that is lazy
I think my big issue with all of these remakes is the underlining tone that they have and signal.
These are marketed as being the "grown up version" of a lot of these movies.
They're looking to attract the millennials and gen xers who grew up with them, and the academy even markets them as such.
Animation already has it hard but now we have one of the biggest outputs of it consistently dragging it through the mud
The irony is that for some of those people the better way they would be winning them over would be by producing *new* 2D animated movies in the vain of their 90s classics, not by remaking all those said classics and potentially ruining or taking away from what was loved about them. These remakes have just been another excuse for Disney to keep wanting to turn their backs on their 2D animation the same as with their 3D movies like Frozen.
And yes, to even think of Disney insinuating with these remakes that their original animated classics are only "childish kiddie fare" is very saddening as well as feeling insulting to the very art of animation that was once so important to them, after inspiring people like myself to even grow up to see the beauty in animation as an art form to begin with.
@@nicksorenson940 I honestly think the academy goes out of its way to never give animation its roses.
Beauty and the beast almost nabbing best picture spook them so much that they created the best animated picture award just so they could box the whole medium.
The parameters on Disney's movie generating AI need adjusted, it's going off-prompt. Perhaps they should try a different CFG scale, or replacing Bob Iger.
I for one am hyped
Does anyone know what the music used in this video is called?
I'd prefer to have the 2D animation. It's much more saturated, and you know how the characters all feel immediately. And don't get me started on all those beautiful watercolor-esk backgrounds. ^u^ I think that a 2D movie about the book versions of when Mufasa and Taka were young and getting to see how they ended up with a sorta falling out in their future. But in the books, Mufasa is of royal blood and same for Taka. But in the "live action" movie trailer, it states that Mufasa was actually not of royal standing and could've been adopted by Taka's family. Which makes for an interesting plot for sure, but I'm not sure if I'm going to be seeing the movie in theaters at all. I'm going to save my time and money for Sonic movie 3 with Shadow The Hedgehog in it. That is my one priority movie for the year and nothing else. I also expect that if I do get curious about how the "L.A." Mufasa movie is, somebody will have pirated it, I'm sure.
Nature docs are so much better. The only issue with them is they film for a few months then leave. I miss Big Cat Diaries. They filmed for months, took a few months off, then came back so you could see what was happening with the same cat families you knew.
They want scar and Mufasa young Mufasa and scar become brothers they want that
This wouldn't be so bad if they at least did a compromise and animated their faces to have expressions. Someone on youtube did a version and it looked great. Using cgi for animal movies is fine if they just use it for texturing and backgrounds
They really saw Mufasa and Scar and went “Hey let’s steal Nuka’s backstory and put it on the actual bad guy instead of letting the morally grey character keep it”
Think about it, Nuka was Zira’s son (possibly Scar’s too) and yet was passed over for Kovu, who isn’t even Scar’s son, as Scar’s chosen one. Nuka doesn’t try to kill Kovu, no, but the origin to his hatred is very similar. I’d rather have a movie about Scar titled “Askari” (allegedly, it was original name in the TLG universe).
That’s what I don’t understand. Disney can make the argument of this would flop if it was a traditional animated movie, but the original is still top 15 of highest grossing animated movies of all time. Not to mention with it being a sequel/prequel to the original would mean more money, possibly surpassing the original. If Disney believes more sequels mean more money, then a sequel/prequel to the original Lion King would be a win win for both sides, if done correctly and not poorly.
why do they keep giving miranda work???? ughhhhhhh
I do not want to see nat geo 2.
You are saying exactly what I have been thinking:
This film should have been made in 2D hand drawn animation to tell this story instead of pushing “live action 3D computer animation” on us all because they saw the “live action” Lion King made the figures it shouldn’t have and now they put themselves in an awkward position of releasing this crap the same day as Sonic 3 and I don’t need to tell you which will easily do better in the box office. This is just blind executives thinking they can beat Sonic with a popular franchise that wasn’t even executed in the better medium to tell a story.
Animated, broadway, and remake are all 🔥! Stay mad 😂
i'll just stick to the lion king, simba's pride, 1 1/2 and the lion guard instead.
It's inevitable that this film will be defeated by Sonic 3
It won't going to make 1 billion dollars like the 2019 remake who doesn't deserve to be the highest grossing animated feature of all time because they have CG animals pretending to be real that has nothing special
And if this prequel along with Snow White bombs it will be the end of the remakes
As much as the direct to video sequels came to an end under the new leadership of the animation division with the new leadership on the live-action division the days of the live-action remakes are counting since the disappointing results of The Little mermaid remake especially when it didn't reach the billion-dollar line as Alice in Wonderland Beauty and the beast Aladdin and of course the Lion King
The facial expression looks a bit better though
I did not feel anything watching this trailer. I always forget that this movie exists and is coming out
Sonic 3’s going to demolish this monstrosity.
And this is why I’ll be seeing Sonic 3 instead of this movie
It's too early to criticize the upcoming film. Besides, it's not even finished developing yet. Who knows? Maybe it'll be a slight improvement from The Lion King 2019. Personally, I'm both excited and nervous for the film.
It's never too early to criticize their practice in general.
Not sure how to feel about the new movie. But I know Lin Manuel Miranda is cooking up at least 1 good song.
Mufasa disappoint us all...
I have zero desire to see this.
Oh, come on at least it’s telling its own story. It’s not like a remake. It’s like original story. It’s literally original story and people wanted to see what Mufasa was like before the events of lion King and you guys are giving this hate for it when it doesn’t deserve this much hate it for the first time it’s actually telling its own snoring not a remake from a Disney animation like the last one.
I don't agree !! These images looks gorgeous. my kid and lot of his friends watch it almost everyday. These are not scrap. Appreciate the content.
As soon I saw the trailer, I honestly didn’t really cared about.
And I also have to remind myself that this is about the same character that gets killed by a B*slap
Geez. It’s just the first trailer. Give it a chance. We didn’t even see the movie but it’s already getting hate. Maybe, Disney will surprise us and it’s better than the first one.
hey you're right and it's only made even more stupid considering they now own National Geographic and is even places on front of the app with all their other main ips! This is just more smooth brained Disney stunts.
Should have been 2d