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"Mufasa: The Lion King," the new film coming to theaters Dec. 20 explores the unlikely rise of the beloved king of the Pride Lands. The film has an all-star roster of talent bringing new and fan-favorite characters to life—plus, celebrated award-winning songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda is writing the film's songs produced by Mark Mancina and Miranda, with additional music and performances by Lebo M.

Said Miranda, "Elton John. Tim Rice. Hans Zimmer. Lebo M. Mark Mancina. Beyoncé, Labrinth, Ilya Salmanzadeh. Beau Black, Ford Riley, the incredible music team on 'The Lion Guard,' and so many musical contributors over the years. 'The Lion King' has an incredible musical legacy with music from some of the greatest songwriters around, and I'm humbled and proud to be a part of it. It's been a joy working alongside Barry Jenkins to bring Mufasa's story to life, and we can't wait for audiences to experience this film in theaters."

Blending live-action filmmaking techniques with photoreal computer-generated imagery, "Mufasa: The Lion King" is directed by Barry Jenkins, produced by Adele Romanski & Mark Ceryak, and executive produced by Peter Tobyansen.

 

[Spyxos]

Go away with those ugly cgi creatures.

I want this:

Not this:

 

[BossLackey]

 

[Jinzo Prime]

This looks Goofy as all hell, but The Lion King remake made over a billion, so what do I know?

 

[Fbh]

Was slightly interested when I saw the thread title. But it went away pretty quickly when I saw It's the soulless CG take on Lion King.

 

[kanjobazooie]

Kinectimals reboot looking good.

 

[SJRB]

Bro what the fuck is this.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Lions love ice!

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Why are they making this trash live action instead of animated like God intended?

 

[John Bilbo]

This looks Goofy as all hell, but The Lion King remake made over a billion, so what do I know?

That's unreal!

 

[AJUMP23]

This looks like GARBAGE.

 

[GymWolf]

This looks Goofy as all hell, but The Lion King remake made over a billion, so what do I know?

And this is why aliens don't colonize us.

 

[pnutboy]

Still baffled why someone as talented as Barry Jenkins decided to direct this. The drop-off from Moonlight to this is staggering

 

[HL3.exe]

Impressive how they've still haven't learned from the critique. Just 0 expressive boring looking photorealistic animals it is then. So stupid.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

Why are they making this trash live action instead of animated like God intended?

I mean, it's 99% CGI, so it is animated. Just not in the way we would want.

 

[jason10mm]

Why are they making this trash live action instead of animated like God intended?

Live action? Dude, that's like 100% CG. You think they trained a lion cub to run over hippos?

While it's impressive from a technical standpoint I don't think it has any emotional weight what so ever. The only value this movie has (for me) is maybe they developed some better tools for a project I will care about later on.

 

[Fake]

They are really running out of the ideias... is there any original ideia left inside this piece of shit of company?

 

[thefool]

Eventually we'll have good mods powered by AI that change how every frame looks.

 

[jufonuk]

James Earl Jones even if AI generated needs to be in this somehow

 

[Billbofet]

Disney has truly lost any and all magic they once had.
Who gets anything out of prequels where you know the main character is going to be murdered and you know how and who.
This shit sucks so bad.

The only upside to this movie is having the distinction of being the only animated feature in the last five years to NOT have Aquafina in it.

 

[VulcanRaven]

Go away with those ugly cgi creatures.

I want this:

Not this:

I like both.

 

[analog_future]

Why are they making this trash live action instead of animated like God intended?

Probably because the 2019 film is the 9th highest grossing film of all-time

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Seth Rogen?????

With that, I lost my desire to see it.

 

[Trunx81]

Will we finally learn what Scar was called before his injury?

 

[VulcanRaven]

Seth Rogen?????

With that, I lost my desire to see it.

He voiced Pumbaa in the remake.

 

[MaestroMike]

I wanna see it they need to do some r rated lion coalition type animated movies like the rise and downfall of the mapogo coalition

 

[OmegaSupreme]

I'd rather put my bare balls over a fire pit.

 

[March Climber]

So timeline-wise…

Mufasa: Lion King -> Lion King 1 first half -> Lion King 3 -> Lion King 1 end -> Timon and Pumbaa -> Lion King 2 first half -> Lion Guard first half -> Lion King 2 second half -> Lion Guard second half -> Lion Guard: RotR

 

[kunonabi]

Will we finally learn what Scar was called before his injury?

The general theory is that he's Taka and Mufasa basically steals the throne from him.

 

[Halo is Back]

Fuck off Disney

 

[Fart Knight]

Instant skip

 

[jason10mm]

I'm disappointed there isn't more cat balls in this trailer. Don't neuter mah KING!

 

[Rran]

"Mufasa: The Lion King," the new film coming to theaters Dec. 20 explores the unlikely rise of the beloved king of the Pride Lands. The film has an all-star roster of talent bringing new and fan-favorite characters to life—plus, celebrated award-winning songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda is writing the film's songs produced by Mark Mancina and Miranda, with additional music and performances by Lebo M.

This is the worst paragraph I've ever read.

 

[Sonik]

lol Disney is so pathetic and desperate, they even added the "The Lion King" part in the title just in case anyone didn't know what franchise they're trying to milk this time

 

[pauljeremiah]

Digital de-ageing has gotten too good; Mufasa looks exactly how he did on that sitcom in the early 80s.

Also, I showed up for Beale Street in theaters, so you can’t blame me for this one.

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

Seven months away. Farking hell.

 

[Hudo]

I doubt they can top this:


They should make new stuff instead and not making their old stuff worse.

 

[jufonuk]

Will we finally learn what Scar was called before his injury?

Nigel

 

[Puscifer]

Who asked for this?

 

[GeekyDad]

Will watch.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Who gets anything out of prequels where you know the main character is going to be murdered and you know how and who.

So much this, plus his death was really dumb.

 

[Fart Knight]

Who asked for this?

 

[ahtlas7]

 

[newtypepilot]

the fact people actually think this is live action just shows the ignorance people have regarding VFX. The problem isn't they are going cgi. The problem is the choice of art direction. By going for a photo realism aesthetic, they immediately limited themselves the range of emotions the characters can express without going to uncanny valley. Animals in real life don't have human like expressions, whereas in the 94 film, all the characters have very exaggerated human like expressions.

 

[Saber]

New Disney is not capable of handling old Disney movies. I'm sure there will be some crap idea in it or they gonna do dirty with the characters, no wonder they have to state its a Lion King film.

 

[HoodWinked]

Looks worse than what they made 5 years ago.

 

[bitbydeath]

I’m slightly interested for the music, the reboot was a disappointment in this area, but Lin-Manuel Miranda knows how to write songs.

 

[CGNoire]

James Earl Jones even if AI generated needs to be in this somehow

Hes alive still.

 

[CGNoire]

For the Love of God. Make it Stop!

 

[Soodanim]

I mean, it's 99% CGI, so it is animated. Just not in the way we would want.

Live action? Dude, that's like 100% CG. You think they trained a lion cub to run over hippos?

While it's impressive from a technical standpoint I don't think it has any emotional weight what so ever. The only value this movie has (for me) is maybe they developed some better tools for a project I will care about later on.

the fact people actually think this is live action just shows the ignorance people have regarding VFX.

No one thinks they popped over to Africa and trained some animals to speak, act, and sing. It's a reference to the art style.