Big Little Lions: Disney's New 'Lion King' Dodges the 'Kimba' Similarity Issue

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Disney still has some explaining to do in regards to that TheLionKing vs. 'Kimba the White Lion' controversy

written by Joshua Sternin and Jennifer Ventimilia. Toward the end, Mufasa appears in a cloud bank next to the recently deceased jazzman Bleeding Gums Murphy, Darth Vader and James Earl Jones, and tells Lisa, "You must avenge my death Kimba … I mean, Simba.

views that's just 8 minutes of concept art for and scenes from the Disney film and Tezuka's white-lion oeuvre in split-screen, sort of a greatly expanded A/V version of Patten's list — wasn't even born whenairing on a public access television station in Alberta, Canada. "I assumed it was a rip-off of," says MacKay, "I jumped online and learned it was animated in 1965, decades earlier.

, but it doesn't appear that, in the run-up to Friday's premiere, anyone involved with the remake has been asked even a single question about, and whether Disney's position in 2019 is the same as it was in 1994. Kuwahara says that Japanese media is likewise ignoring the controversy this time around. , as the only recent instance they've found of someone asking a question about

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