'We were shooting so much content that we never fully watched or listened to, so we had to go back and create from what we already had'
Photo: Andrew White/Parkwood Entertainment The richness of the Black experience was the focal point throughout Beyoncé’s Black Is King, a stunning visual film that gave Disney+ a subscriber boost when it debuted on the service last month. The film was, of course, a very Beyoncé experience, with her visual decisions meaningfully reflecting our current political moment while also reimagining The Lion King for a new audience.
Fellow director Blitz Bazawule added that unfilmed Black Is King scenes had to be sourced from remaining footage, which presented a unique challenge for the creative team — would they still be able to tell a unified story? Well, we’d say so, but all of those pretty GIFs sure help. “COVID was such a shift in our entire worldview and I think the universe is so wise. The timing of this piece could not have been better,” Bazawule said.
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