Disney Developing 'The Lion King' Remake

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Steamboat_Bill dijo:
You could never make a movie with a plot out of what was basically an art film. And I doubt that Disney could do it well.
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See, I'd be more impressed by something like that, because it would require some creativity. I think you could make a fantastic film by expanding the Night on Bald Mountain segment.

friedshrimp dijo:
I'm already seeing SJWs foaming at the idea of white people polluting their perfect "ALL POC" cast of Beyonce and Donald Glover.
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"You see, Simba, we lions represent the British Empire. While we rule Africa, the land prospers."
"But Dad, isn't Scar a lion?"
"He is darker than us. He represents Africans educated by the British. He can only win by cowardly deception."
"What about the hyenas?"
"They represent ordinary Africans, scavengers who create nothing and destroy the land. You must learn to understand this subtext, Simba."
 
ZehnBoat dijo:
i pray that transtrenders never learn about real hyenas
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If they don't care to watch NatGeo Wild, they never will!

Tragi-Chan dijo:
See, I'd be more impressed by something like that, because it would require some creativity. I think you could make a fantastic film by expanding the Night on Bald Mountain segment.
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I wouldn't mind a tale that was about this one kid in the village nearby who's heard of the Bald Mountain thing through legends and wanted to go see it for himself. He gets caught up in the mayhem, learns some important lesson I don't care to figure out and we all have a good laugh, the end!


"You see, Simba, we lions represent the British Empire. While we rule Africa, the land prospers."
"But Dad, isn't Scar a lion?"
"He is darker than us. He represents Africans educated by the British. He can only win by cowardly deception."
"What about the hyenas?"
"They represent ordinary Africans, scavengers who create nothing and destroy the land. You must learn to understand this subtext, Simba."
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I could get behind this!
 
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Tragi-Chan dijo:
"You see, Simba, we lions represent the British Empire. While we rule Africa, the land prospers."
"But Dad, isn't Scar a lion?"
"He is darker than us. He represents Africans educated by the British. He can only win by cowardly deception."
"What about the hyenas?"
"They represent ordinary Africans, scavengers who create nothing and destroy the land. You must learn to understand this subtext, Simba."
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I'd watch it.
 
I'm on the fence about this, but I choose to be cautiously optimistic.

I can definitely see John Oliver as a sassy butler bird. That's a great casting choice, IMO. And while I'm sure there are other actors who could portray Mufasa wonderfully, I think it's probably better that JEJ is voicing him in the remake. Mufasa is possibly one of the most iconic Disney voices of all time, and I'm sure hardcore fans would rage if someone else got the part.

I would hope that for the cubs, they'd get some talented up-and-coming young actors. I'm definitely interested in seeing who gets cast as Scar (iirc his original voice actor lost his singing voice for some reason).

All in all, I do think it's kind of lame that Disney seems to be falling back on remakes rather than original content these days, but I'm a dummy and I try to hope for the best.
 
I think that classics should be left as just that. I know some famous filmmaker or director once said that you shouldn't remake good movies. Instead you should remake bad ones. I can't remember who it was. But I did read about it awhile back.

I wish that new ideas would be used instead of remaking old classics. There are still lots of fairy tales they haven't touched. They could do The Goose Girl. It's an interesting story and it can add another princess to the mix. But they'd probably have to forgo the talking horse losing its head. Not in modern Disney.
 
I think one of the things that really made the Jungle Book palatable was the fact that there was a real, not CGI human (Mowgli) there to ground everything and be an audience surrogate in the CGI world. The Lion King not having an equivalent might make it a little less relatable and thus less well liked.
 
Salt Water Taffy dijo:
I think one of the things that really made the Jungle Book palatable was the fact that there was a real, not CGI human (Mowgli) there to ground everything and be an audience surrogate in the CGI world. The Lion King not having an equivalent might make it a little less relatable and thus less well liked.
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Only time will tell, but I do get what you meant by The Jungle Book's success there.
 
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The Lion King is probably my favorite Disney movie. And frankly, I don't think it even needs to be remade.

I get Disney is a business and businesses need to make money, but this trend of remaking older films is a very transparent form of cash-grabbing. And sadly it's working. Doesn't help that I'm part of the problem as well by seeing these movies.

Granted, I did kinda like Maleficent and The Jungle Book, at least with those two movies they really changed up the general stories and showed things from a different perspective. Meanwhile, you have Cinderella BatB which play it too safe and in the case of the latter added extra plot elements that ultimately add nothing interesting to the story and only served as plot contrivances.

"Boy howdy, it's a good thing Gaston was standing on that particular part of that bridge that decided to collapse because magic, otherwise bad things would have happened to Belle! D: ".
 
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scorptatious dijo:
I get Disney is a business and business need to make money, but this trend of remaking older films is a very transparent form of cash-grabbing. And sadly it's working. Doesn't help that I'm part of the problem as well by seeing these movies.
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I get the sense that a lot of moviegoers these days are essentially pigs at a trough. Even if you do to the film what Gus van Sant did to Psycho, they'll go to see it anyway because they remember the original.

In instances like these we should heed the words of Jay Sherman, who said - "If it's a remake of a classic, rent the classic!"

He was right then and he's only more right now.
 
Steamboat_Bill dijo:
In instances like these we should heed the words of Jay Sherman, who said - "If it's a remake of a classic, rent the classic!"

He was right then and he's only more right now.
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In a way I'm glad The Critic hasn't been rebooted nowadays, goodness knows what SJW-crap they'd infuse into the writing.

Otoh, some remakes can work, but for every 70s Scarface we have, we have like 9 2017 Beauty and the Beasts...Sigh.
 
friedshrimp dijo:
In a way I'm glad The Critic hasn't been rebooted nowadays, goodness knows what SJW-crap they'd infuse into the writing.

Otoh, some remakes can work, but for every 70s Scarface we have, we have like 9 2017 Beauty and the Beasts...Sigh.
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The Critic certainly came out at the right time and place to do what it did, even if it was a relatively short two seasons worth (not counting the web series later on but I wasn't a fan of those).
 
friedshrimp dijo:
In a way I'm glad The Critic hasn't been rebooted nowadays, goodness knows what SJW-crap they'd infuse into the writing.

Otoh, some remakes can work, but for every 70s Scarface we have, we have like 9 2017 Beauty and the Beasts...Sigh.
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Too many people involved in it have died for it to really come back right (no one but Charles Napier could have been Duke Phillips).

But back to the topic... the problem with this is that its motives are so blatantly transparent. You can hear the Disney execs saying "We are going to redo this film you loved twenty-five years ago with modern actors and CGI, and you will watch it because you are sheep and we control you because we made your nostalgia."

And given the success of the Beauty and the Beast remake, they are right.
 
Steamboat_Bill dijo:
Too many people involved in it have died for it to really come back right (no one but Charles Napier could have been Duke Phillips).

But back to the topic... the problem with this is that its motives are so blatantly transparent. You can hear the Disney execs saying "We are going to redo this film you loved twenty-five years ago with modern actors and CGI, and you will watch it because you are sheep and we control you because we made your nostalgia."

And given the success of the Beauty and the Beast remake, they are right.
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Sad but true.
 
Steamboat_Bill dijo:
Too many people involved in it have died for it to really come back right (no one but Charles Napier could have been Duke Phillips).

But back to the topic... the problem with this is that its motives are so blatantly transparent. You can hear the Disney execs saying "We are going to redo this film you loved twenty-five years ago with modern actors and CGI, and you will watch it because you are sheep and we control you because we made your nostalgia."

And given the success of the Beauty and the Beast remake, they are right.
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I might watch it when it comes to Netflix but I ain't seeing it seven times in theaters and dragging my parents and grandparents there like I did when I was a kid.
 
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