Mufasa's Lion King Prequel Now Has A Significant Difference From Jon Favreau's Live-Action Remake

The poster for The Lion King (2019) next to Mufasa in the poster for Mufasa: The Lion King (2024)

Mufasa: The Lion King now has a significant difference from Jon Favreau's The Lion King, which could fix a big mistake of the latter. The story of Mufasa: The Lion King centers around the titular character, chronicling his journey from a stray lion to the king of the Pride Lands. Mufasa: The Lion King's voice cast features an array of talent, some returning from 2019's The Lion King, given the former is simultaneously a prequel and a sequel.

" Absolutely, yeah, it's an animated film. I am communicating constantly with these animators who are trying to manipulate these somewhat photorealistic sort of models in a way that is expressive. And so because of that, I don't think of it as live action. I do think of it as animation. It's just a very different tool."

&#x2715 Remove Ads Related Disney Live-Action Remakes Ranked Worst To Best Recently, Disney has cashed in on nostalgia and is making many live-action remakes of some of their animated classics. Letterboxd ranks the best here. While it remains to be seen whether Mufasa gives its characters more emotive facial animations, embracing the medium of animation as a whole seems to be a step in the right direction...

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