Disney Developing 'The Lion King' Remake

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https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/disney-jon-favreau-the-lion-king/

We can officially confirm that The Walt Disney Studios and director Jon Favreau are putting a new reimagining of The Lion King on the fast track to production. The project follows the technologically groundbreaking smash hit The Jungle Book, directed by Favreau, which debuted in April and has earned $965.8 million worldwide.

The Lion King builds on Disney’s success of reimagining its classics for a contemporary audience with films like Maleficent, Cinderella, and The Jungle Book. The upcoming Beauty and the Beast, starring Emma Watson as Belle, is already one of the most anticipated movies of 2017. Like Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King will include songs from the animated film. Disney and Favreau are also in development on a sequel to The Jungle Book. No release date has been announced for either film.

The Lion King (1994) is one of the biggest animated films of all time with a lifetime global box office gross of $968.8 million, including $422.8 million domestically. It won Academy Awards for the original song “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” (Elton John, Tim Rice) and original score (Hans Zimmer), plus two Grammy Awards, with the soundtrack selling over 14 million copies. In 1997, the stage production The Lion King made its Broadway debut, winning six Tony Awards; 19 years later, it remains one of Broadway’s biggest hits alongside several other productions running around the world, including London, Hamburg, Tokyo, Madrid, Mexico City, Shanghai, and North America. Translated into eight different languages, its 23 global productions have been seen by more than 85 million people across every continent except Antarctica. The Lion King’s worldwide gross exceeds that of any film, Broadway show or other entertainment title in box office history.
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This will be just as bad as Ghostbusters 2016 if not worse. I saw Maleficent and Oz and they gave me cancer. The only ok one they did was Alice in Wonderland and I think that was the first one they did in that style.
 
This is the one Disney remake I just don't understand. I mean, how are you going to expand on this theme? At least with the other remakes they either took the story in a different direction (i.e. Maleficent) or paid homage to the original source material (i.e. The Jungle Book).

But what can they do here? Cast Patrick Stewart and Tom Hiddleston as VAs and LITERALLY make it Hamlet with lions?
 
I don't get where people are getting the "it's gonna be live action!" idea from. It's obviously going to be animated. There is no way in hell you could make a movie like The Lion King with real animals. It will just be realistic CG animation instead of the original's stylized 2D animation.

I do think the wildebeest stampede scene could be really cool in this style but otherwise what's the point. The realism will clash with the songs, like it did in The Jungle Book. Hearing voices like Matthew Broderick, Whoopi Goldberg, and Nathan Lane come from the mouths of realistic animals will be jarring (yes they will probably recast various roles no I don't really give a shit right now). It just sounds like a recipe for a messy, unsatisfying film.
 
millais dijo:
here it says the remake will be live-action. but i do hope they will use CGI to add in Harambe and Cecil to make it extra memetastic

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37494861
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Nowhere in the official press release from Disney do they mention the phrase "live action," not even in reference to films like Maleficent that are live action remakes/retellings. The "it's gonna be live action!" is something the press is pulling out of their asses.
 
nonnewtonian dijo:
Nowhere in the official press release from Disney do they mention the phrase "live action," not even in reference to films like Maleficent that are live action remakes/retellings. The "it's gonna be live action!" is something the press is pulling out of their asses.
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If it's going to be an animated remake it'd be even more redundant.

There was a time when Eisner was thinking of redoing all the old Disney films in CGI. Clearly the company's trying to revisit this diabolical plan...
 
I don't care either way if it exists, but given that Jungle Book just made a lot of money it makes sense for them to try to do it with their other singing animals in wilderness movies.
If this works then Bambi's next for sure.
 
XYZpdq dijo:
I don't care either way if it exists, but given that Jungle Book just made a lot of money it makes sense for them to try to do it with their other singing animals in wilderness movies.
If this works then Bambi's next for sure.
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At least Bambi has humans. You could expand the character of the hunters who kill Bambi's mom.

(I'd also heard they were remaking Dumbo. I wonder how they'll deal with the fact that a child gets drunk in that film - even if it is an elephant I don't think you can do that in a film anymore...)
 
Lensherr dijo:
https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/disney-jon-favreau-the-lion-king/
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This is the only one I'm kinda intereared in. Lion King has always been my favorite and it came out when I was a kid and my kids like stupid shit that I dread going to the theatre to see so maybe we'll both actually enjoy ourselves.
 
lol what kind of mega autist likes the animated movie
 
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