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According to Seth Rogen, his singing skills were so poor that the vocal coach hired for him (none other than Pharrell Williams) was "literally . . . banging his head against a wall trying to extract . . . a f*cking good note out of me."
Unlike in the original, Simba's eyes are a hazy blue as a baby. This is true to actual lion biology, in which cubs are born blind and cannot open their eyes until about ten days after their birth. The blue color is a result of delayed melanin production, but this changes as the cubs grow, such that their eyes are golden-brown by the time they're three months old; this as reflected in Simba's "cubhood" design.
Jeremy Irons expressed interest in reprising his role as Scar.
Jon Faverau revealed in an interview that he brought James Earl Jones back as the voice of Mufasa because: "I see it as carrying the legacy across. Just hearing him say the lines is really moving and surreal, the timbre of his voice has changed. That served the role well because he sounds like a king who's ruled for a long time."
James Earl Jones, Hans Zimmer, Elton John, and Tim Rice are the only people who worked on the original animated film that reprise their respective roles, as the voice of Mufasa, the composer of the film, and songwriters.
Donald Glover grew up watching the original film and mentioned that while recording the music for the remake, he didn't need anybody to teach him how to sing the songs he had known since he was a child.
Billy Eichner did not have to audition for the voice of Timon. Jon Favreau happened to be a fan of his and suggested the thought to Eichner's agent, who told him about it; he accepted it in a heartbeat.
Seth Rogen said, "As an actor, I [...] don't think I'm right for every role there are a lot of roles I don't think I'm right for even in movies I'm making, but Pumbaa was one I knew I could do well".
Benedict Cumberbatch turned down the role of the voice of Scar.
The hyenas' characterizations were heavily altered from the original film's, as Favreau felt that they "had to change a lot" to fit the remake's realistic style, stating that "[a] lot of the stuff around them [in the original film] was very stylised." Florence Kasumba (Shenzi) elaborated, declaring that "Those hyenas were funny; these hyenas are dangerous."
During the famous log scene, if viewed very carefully, both Timon and Pumbaa are walking slightly slower when Simba is both an adolescent and a fully grown adult; Pumbaa's fur becomes very slightly greyer. The log scene is not just showing Simba grow up, but his two friends (who are much older than him) as well.
Zazu's line about Mufasa's rambunctious childhood is adapted from the Broadway play.
At 86, at the time, James Earl Jones is the oldest of the cast; he was 63 when he did the voice of Mufasa in The Lion King (1994).
The Zulu-language lyrics for the opening chant of "The Circle of Life" are: "Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba / Sithi uhm ingonyama / Nants ingonyama bagithi baba / Sithi uhhmm ingonyama / Ingonyama Siyo Nqoba / Ingonyama Ingonyama nengw enamabala". This translates as: "Here comes a lion, Father / Oh, yes, it's a lion / Here comes a lion, Father / Oh yes, it's a lion / A lion We're going to conquer / A lion A lion and a leopard come to this open place." The lyrics were written by the South African composer Lebo M. Zulu is one of many South African languages along with Swahili, an East African language, used predominantly in this movie. Many characters' names are Swahili including Simba (lion); Nala (gift); Pumbaa (heart); Rafiki (friend); and Sarabi (mirage).
"Scar is, simply put, a fascinating character, and the opportunity to examine his psychology and see what makes him tick is what interested me" Chiwetel Ejiofor said about the role. What he wanted to explore in his performance was wanting to understand who Scar was, why he feels the way he does and how that leads to him doing the things that he does. "It's not a simple psychology, because Scar isn't a black and white villain in the way characters like Maleficent (not the live-action one) and Ursula are; he's evil to be sure. But like many great villains, he thinks that he's the good guy, or at least that his actions are somehow justified."
Favreau's encouragement to the cast and crew took several forms, from the first days of pre-production to the film's current post-production animation crunch; Rogen and Eichner were able to experience their version of it on their very first day on set. The director tasked the pair with performing the entire movie together three times in a black-box theater, twice with script in hand and once without. "Jon said, 'I want you to walk through it,' like we were doing a play, like we were doing a live version of The Lion King - this was the first thing we did," says Eichner. By the third run-through, when they'd familiarized themselves with the beats of each scene, Favreau had them abandon their scripts and improvise and as of Eichner's most recent viewing of the film, "a shocking amount" of improvised dialogue has remained intact from that session.
John Oliver said, "I think Zazu is basically a bird who likes structure; he just wants things to be as they should be. I think there are British echoes there because we tend to favor structure in lieu of having an emotional reaction to anything."
Billy Eichner (Timon) and Seth Rogen (Pumbaa) recorded their lines together, much like how Nathan Lane (Timon's original animated counterpart) and Ernie Sabella (Pumbaa's original animated counterpart) did so in the original 1994 animated film. This also applies to its direct-to-video/DVD sequel and mid-quel.
Scar's villainous song "Be Prepared" was originally to be left out of the film due to its Nazi themes, which Disney executives were afraid to tackle, and because Chiwetel Ejiofor's voice was not fit for the singing. This drew a lot of ire from film critics and fans until the studio relented and put a shortened version of the song back in the film.
In this version of "Hakuna Matata", Pumbaa actually manages to say the word "farted" because Timon doesn't bother to stop him this time. Even Pumbaa seems genuinely caught off-guard.
Chiwetel Ejiofor says of the towering 6'2 James Earl Jones: "For those of us who grew up with James Earl Jones and his voice, the comfort of that is going to be very rewarding in taking us on this journey again. It's a once-in-a-generation vocal quality."
In the German version, Nala is voiced by Magdalena Turba. Turba voiced Young Nala in the German dub of the 1994 original.
Jon Favreau stated, "It feels like we're restoring a classic historic architectural landmark. How do you update it without changing the personality of it? How do you take advantage of all the new technological breakthroughs, but still maintain the soul and the spirit of the original Lion King?" he told EW on set. "I think this film is a culmination of all the live-action adaptations that Disney has done of their animated classics. The idea of taking these characters and this music, just as the stage play took it, sticking closely to the story but reinventing it for a different medium; I thought that this technology would be separate enough from the animated film that it felt fresh and new, yet completely related to the original. And by the time Jungle Book was done, we had a lot of facility with this technology. So you're hitting that part of your stride when you're saying, 'Now, what can I really do with this?'"
The hyenas Shenzi, Kamari, and Azizi are named after the Swahili words for "savage," "mighty," and "moonlight," respectively. Kamari and Azizi were originally named Banzai and Ed in the 1994 animated film, but were given African names for this film.
According to actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, "Scar is not a cool and collected British lion with an angry streak; he's more of a powder keg ready to explode."
A group of elephants can be seen near Mount Kilimanjaro in the original trailer. This means that the film is set in Tanzania.
In November 2017, Hans Zimmer was announced to return to compose the music for this film, as he did for the 1994 film. On a similar note, director Jon Favreau previously was able to secure Richard M. Sherman to compose The Jungle Book (2016), as he did, for the 1967 film.
If one looks very extremely close, a brief 'image' of a male lion can be seen near the bottom of the screen, during the opening song "Circle of Life." The actual position is between the large bottom left cloud and the larger upper cloud. This 'image' is most likely the ghost of Mufusa or Scar's and Mufasa's late father.
This is the next Disney remake in line after Aladdin (2019). Similarly, the original The Lion King (1994) was the next Disney animated feature film to be released after the original animated Aladdin (1992).
Eichner and Rogen knew that a difference in tone would be necessary for the photo-realistic aesthetic style that defines Favreau's film. As Eichner puts it, "Lane and Pumbaa portrayer Ernie Sabella kept in their characters, the vaudeville banter of the Broadway production of Guys and Dollsthey had just concluded, before recording their roles in the 1994 film." In Disney's National Geographic-chic reinvention, the theatrics had to be recalibrated, if not toned down. "Seth and I are obviously not coming out of a production of Guys and Dolls, but I think overall our dynamic is a bit more conversational," says Eichner. "I'm not saying it's subtle, but it is conversational." Rogen echoes the evaluation: "To me the funniest parts are how casual and off-handed our rapport is, in that it really does not feel like we're putting on a show. It just feels like two characters who genuinely know one another very well. And that's Jon's sensibility. Jon is so good at grounding things. I remember that's why I was obsessed with Swingers when I was young - it's one of the most grounded comedies I've ever seen. And so Jon was always, in a great way, hard on [us] that it shouldn't feel cartoony."
In an interview, Chiwetel Ejiofor remarked on how his version of Scar is more "psychologically possessed" and "brutalized" than the one played by Jeremy Irons in the 1994 animated film. The original Scar, whose treacherous character mirrors Claudius in Shakespeare's Hamlet, tended to give off an air of strength and confidence, while having a violent temperament stirring underneath. But this time around, Ejiofor indicates that his version of Scar is more openly obsessive, frustrated, and enraged. "There's something quite interesting in knowing that you're always holding a lethal capacity," he said. "At the end of it, you're playing somebody who has the capacity to turn everything on its head in a split second with outrageous acts of violence."
It was the prospect of getting inside his head that made Chiwetel Ejiofor really want to play Scar, as he explained: "I was interested in understanding the real psychology of Scar, the psychology of a person who always feels as if they have been somehow mysteriously overpassed by the fates, by the gods themselves. That sense of not being in the rightful place and therefore living in a kind of parallel universe to the one that you're supposed to be in, what sort of psychology would that mean, and what would it go to over a period of time?"
When Pumbaa suggests keeping Simba, he explains that "one day when he's big and strong," a quote from "My Lullaby" from Lion King II, Simba's Pride (1998).
Scar's subplot about trying to make Sarabi his queen is a reworking of a subplot from the original film and the Broadway adaptation, in which Scar tries to make Nala his queen.
While just a face, instead of the whole body; the painting of Simba on Rafiki's tree is the same design as in the original movie.
This is Jon Favreau's second Disney remake based on a Disney animated movie after directing The Jungle Book (2016).
This movie is frequently referred to (quite wrongly) as a "live-action" film, despite not having a single living thing, human or otherwise, actually appearing on screen.
Rogen describes the Timon-Pumbaa relationship that he and Eichner forged as "a little bit of a married-couple dynamic. They care deeply for one another. They're very, very, very close friends, and like any two - I'm gonna say people who spend a lot of time together, they start to have things that start to bother one another about each other. Like, meerkats are very quick, fast-paced animals, and warthogs are a little on the slower side. And that dynamic pays off." Plus, Rogen adds, "it takes on a whole new shape once Glover's Simba enters the picture and is quickly convinced to live a life of languid luxury. Donald really added a hilarious element to the dynamic, and I really felt like me, him, and Billy made a bizarre yet very functional comedic trio."
Timon, in the original film, always stood, walked, and ran on his hind legs; Timon will be more realistic in this version, as he, like an actual meerkat, will be walking on all fours.
Jon Favreau cast Chiwetel Ejiofor in the role of Scar after Favreau watched his antagonistic performance as Baron Mordo in Doctor Strange (2016).
This serves as the final credit for film editor Mark Livolsi, who died in September 2018.
In the performance of Timon's big songs "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" and "Hakuna Matata" (shared with Pumbaa), audiences will also get acquainted with Eichner's musical theater pedigree, a defining, if underused, side of his identity as an artist that he can't wait to reveal. "Nathan Lane has a great singing voice [but] he didn't lean into it fully in the original version of The Lion King," he says. "I lean into a little bit more, and I think that's another way that this version is distinct: Timon's singing voice in this version is different than the original, and I think that adds a different flavor to it. When Timon speaks and when he's quote-unquote 'being funny,' he's very loud and boisterous, but the singing allows this vulnerable side, a slightly softer side, especially in 'Can You Feel the Love Tonight' and other moments. So I was glad that they encouraged me to do that because for me personally, it was pretty major."
Even though the film is CGI animated and the music scenes between characters make it seem like they were done separately; a lot of the time, the actors recorded their songs in the same room, face-to-face.
The filmmakers decided that adding human expressions to the animal's faces would look "weird", so they tried to convey emotions more through body language.
Likening his role to that of a grandfather, Kani said, "Rafiki reminds all of us of that special wise relative. His wisdom, humor and his loyalty to the Mufasa dynasty is what warms our hearts towards him. [He's] always happy and wisecracking jokes as lessons of life and survival."
Shahadi Wright Joseph (young Nala) screamed when she found out Beyoncé was going to be in the movie; she stated "and when I found out she was going to be playing the older [version of my character] me, I really had to step my game up and think about what Beyoncé would want."
Jon Faverau revealed that hearing Beyoncé sing "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" was "definitely extremely memorable." He added that "all of us just listened to it over and over. And she sings the duet with Donald Glover, who is an incredible talent as well, not only comedically, but also musically. So to hear the two of them together singing this classic song, with so much personality and emotion, we felt really confident that people are going to be excited when they heard this."
Rafiki's lithe appearance and dull colors make him more closely resemble a female mandrill; although, this could be excused as an attempt to convey his old age. Adult Simba roars atop Pride Rock, but the sound he makes is the typical Hollywood beefed up tiger-esque roar rather than an actual lion vocalization; he also does the stereotypical wide-mouth yelling posture commonly associated with roaring, but actual full-blown lion roars are produced with the mouth in an almost closed position similar to a howling wolf. Zazu has a combination of features from different hornbill species of the genus, Tockus. His general plumage coloration resembles red-billed hornbills, specifically Tanzanian red-billed hornbills (Tockus ruahae); his bill features a prominent casque, which all red-billed hornbill species uniquely lack, as well as being an orange-yellow color that is much more commonly found in both Southern and Eastern yellow-billed hornbills (T. leucomelas and T. flavirostris, respectively). A dik-dik is seen eating bugs alongside Timon, Pumbaa, and the other insectivores; this is something they rarely, if ever, eat in real-life.
Sarabi's design features spots on her forelimbs, to give her a more distinctive appearance relative to the other lionesses. This is similar to how in the cartoon canon, Kion (Simba and Nala's son from The Lion Guard) is the only lion character whose design [consistently] includes leg spots.
There are a total of 86 different species to be found in the movie.
Hugh Jackman was rumored to voice Scar, which was quickly denied by his representative. Nearly three weeks after this rumor, it was eventually confirmed to be Chiwetel Ejiofor, making his second time voice acting in a film after Sherlock Gnomes (2018).
Favreau used virtual reality tech to walk around the virtual set and design shots, treating it like a real location.
John Kani has insisted in several interviews that his voice character, Rafiki, has a different personality than his animated counterpart. According to Kani, Rafiki, is more of a 'down to earth' and 'no nonsense' character this time around and will take his job, getting Simba to see the error of his ways by going back as King, more seriously.
J.D. McCrary (young Simba), who pads around the Pride Lands as young Simba, gushes, "Donald Glover is so talented that I actually did have to take it into consideration. Because if Simba is going to grow up to be some sort of figure and you know of it, you have to keep that motive."
Beyoncé called "The Lion King" album that she worked tirelessly to create and explained how she was able to evoke a new genre of music through soundscapes that paint a picture of what unfolds in the movie. "This soundtrack is a love letter to Africa and I wanted to make sure we found the best talent from Africa, and not just use some of the sounds and did my interpretation of it," Knowles-Carter told ABC News. "I wanted it to be authentic to what is beautiful about the music in Africa," she said, adding that they used "a lot" of drums and "incredible new sounds mixed with some of the producers from America." The Beyoncé-produced-and-curated compilation album, "The Lion King: The Gift," features global artists and is due out July 19, the same day the film hits theaters.
When he started developing the movie, Favreau made a list of all the important moments he could remember off the top of his head from the original, as a reminder of the scenes he had to stay most faithful to.
Donald Glover said that the film will focus more on Simba's time growing up than the original film did. He stated that "[Favreau] was very keen in making sure we saw [Simba's] transition from boy to man and how hard that can be when there's been a deep trauma...
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According to Seth Rogen, his singing skills were so poor that the vocal coach hired for him (none other than Pharrell Williams) was "literally . . . banging his head against a wall trying to extract . . . a f*cking good note out of me."
Unlike in the original, Simba's eyes are a hazy blue as a baby. This is true to actual lion biology, in which cubs are born blind and cannot open their eyes until about ten days after their birth. The blue color is a result of delayed melanin production, but this changes as the cubs grow, such that their eyes are golden-brown by the time they're three months old; this as reflected in Simba's "cubhood" design.
Jeremy Irons expressed interest in reprising his role as Scar.
Jon Faverau revealed in an interview that he brought James Earl Jones back as the voice of Mufasa because: "I see it as carrying the legacy across. Just hearing him say the lines is really moving and surreal, the timbre of his voice has changed. That served the role well because he sounds like a king who's ruled for a long time."
James Earl Jones, Hans Zimmer, Elton John, and Tim Rice are the only people who worked on the original animated film that reprise their respective roles, as the voice of Mufasa, the composer of the film, and songwriters.
Donald Glover grew up watching the original film and mentioned that while recording the music for the remake, he didn't need anybody to teach him how to sing the songs he had known since he was a child.
Billy Eichner did not have to audition for the voice of Timon. Jon Favreau happened to be a fan of his and suggested the thought to Eichner's agent, who told him about it; he accepted it in a heartbeat.
Seth Rogen said, "As an actor, I [...] don't think I'm right for every role there are a lot of roles I don't think I'm right for even in movies I'm making, but Pumbaa was one I knew I could do well".
Benedict Cumberbatch turned down the role of the voice of Scar.
The hyenas' characterizations were heavily altered from the original film's, as Favreau felt that they "had to change a lot" to fit the remake's realistic style, stating that "[a] lot of the stuff around them [in the original film] was very stylised." Florence Kasumba (Shenzi) elaborated, declaring that "Those hyenas were funny; these hyenas are dangerous."
During the famous log scene, if viewed very carefully, both Timon and Pumbaa are walking slightly slower when Simba is both an adolescent and a fully grown adult; Pumbaa's fur becomes very slightly greyer. The log scene is not just showing Simba grow up, but his two friends (who are much older than him) as well.
Zazu's line about Mufasa's rambunctious childhood is adapted from the Broadway play.
At 86, at the time, James Earl Jones is the oldest of the cast; he was 63 when he did the voice of Mufasa in The Lion King (1994).
The Zulu-language lyrics for the opening chant of "The Circle of Life" are: "Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba / Sithi uhm ingonyama / Nants ingonyama bagithi baba / Sithi uhhmm ingonyama / Ingonyama Siyo Nqoba / Ingonyama Ingonyama nengw enamabala". This translates as: "Here comes a lion, Father / Oh, yes, it's a lion / Here comes a lion, Father / Oh yes, it's a lion / A lion We're going to conquer / A lion A lion and a leopard come to this open place." The lyrics were written by the South African composer Lebo M. Zulu is one of many South African languages along with Swahili, an East African language, used predominantly in this movie. Many characters' names are Swahili including Simba (lion); Nala (gift); Pumbaa (heart); Rafiki (friend); and Sarabi (mirage).
"Scar is, simply put, a fascinating character, and the opportunity to examine his psychology and see what makes him tick is what interested me" Chiwetel Ejiofor said about the role. What he wanted to explore in his performance was wanting to understand who Scar was, why he feels the way he does and how that leads to him doing the things that he does. "It's not a simple psychology, because Scar isn't a black and white villain in the way characters like Maleficent (not the live-action one) and Ursula are; he's evil to be sure. But like many great villains, he thinks that he's the good guy, or at least that his actions are somehow justified."
Favreau's encouragement to the cast and crew took several forms, from the first days of pre-production to the film's current post-production animation crunch; Rogen and Eichner were able to experience their version of it on their very first day on set. The director tasked the pair with performing the entire movie together three times in a black-box theater, twice with script in hand and once without. "Jon said, 'I want you to walk through it,' like we were doing a play, like we were doing a live version of The Lion King - this was the first thing we did," says Eichner. By the third run-through, when they'd familiarized themselves with the beats of each scene, Favreau had them abandon their scripts and improvise and as of Eichner's most recent viewing of the film, "a shocking amount" of improvised dialogue has remained intact from that session.
John Oliver said, "I think Zazu is basically a bird who likes structure; he just wants things to be as they should be. I think there are British echoes there because we tend to favor structure in lieu of having an emotional reaction to anything."
Billy Eichner (Timon) and Seth Rogen (Pumbaa) recorded their lines together, much like how Nathan Lane (Timon's original animated counterpart) and Ernie Sabella (Pumbaa's original animated counterpart) did so in the original 1994 animated film. This also applies to its direct-to-video/DVD sequel and mid-quel.
Scar's villainous song "Be Prepared" was originally to be left out of the film due to its Nazi themes, which Disney executives were afraid to tackle, and because Chiwetel Ejiofor's voice was not fit for the singing. This drew a lot of ire from film critics and fans until the studio relented and put a shortened version of the song back in the film.
In this version of "Hakuna Matata", Pumbaa actually manages to say the word "farted" because Timon doesn't bother to stop him this time. Even Pumbaa seems genuinely caught off-guard.
Chiwetel Ejiofor says of the towering 6'2 James Earl Jones: "For those of us who grew up with James Earl Jones and his voice, the comfort of that is going to be very rewarding in taking us on this journey again. It's a once-in-a-generation vocal quality."
In the German version, Nala is voiced by Magdalena Turba. Turba voiced Young Nala in the German dub of the 1994 original.
Jon Favreau stated, "It feels like we're restoring a classic historic architectural landmark. How do you update it without changing the personality of it? How do you take advantage of all the new technological breakthroughs, but still maintain the soul and the spirit of the original Lion King?" he told EW on set. "I think this film is a culmination of all the live-action adaptations that Disney has done of their animated classics. The idea of taking these characters and this music, just as the stage play took it, sticking closely to the story but reinventing it for a different medium; I thought that this technology would be separate enough from the animated film that it felt fresh and new, yet completely related to the original. And by the time Jungle Book was done, we had a lot of facility with this technology. So you're hitting that part of your stride when you're saying, 'Now, what can I really do with this?'"
The hyenas Shenzi, Kamari, and Azizi are named after the Swahili words for "savage," "mighty," and "moonlight," respectively. Kamari and Azizi were originally named Banzai and Ed in the 1994 animated film, but were given African names for this film.
According to actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, "Scar is not a cool and collected British lion with an angry streak; he's more of a powder keg ready to explode."
A group of elephants can be seen near Mount Kilimanjaro in the original trailer. This means that the film is set in Tanzania.
In November 2017, Hans Zimmer was announced to return to compose the music for this film, as he did for the 1994 film. On a similar note, director Jon Favreau previously was able to secure Richard M. Sherman to compose The Jungle Book (2016), as he did, for the 1967 film.
If one looks very extremely close, a brief 'image' of a male lion can be seen near the bottom of the screen, during the opening song "Circle of Life." The actual position is between the large bottom left cloud and the larger upper cloud. This 'image' is most likely the ghost of Mufusa or Scar's and Mufasa's late father.
This is the next Disney remake in line after Aladdin (2019). Similarly, the original The Lion King (1994) was the next Disney animated feature film to be released after the original animated Aladdin (1992).
Eichner and Rogen knew that a difference in tone would be necessary for the photo-realistic aesthetic style that defines Favreau's film. As Eichner puts it, "Lane and Pumbaa portrayer Ernie Sabella kept in their characters, the vaudeville banter of the Broadway production of Guys and Dollsthey had just concluded, before recording their roles in the 1994 film." In Disney's National Geographic-chic reinvention, the theatrics had to be recalibrated, if not toned down. "Seth and I are obviously not coming out of a production of Guys and Dolls, but I think overall our dynamic is a bit more conversational," says Eichner. "I'm not saying it's subtle, but it is conversational." Rogen echoes the evaluation: "To me the funniest parts are how casual and off-handed our rapport is, in that it really does not feel like we're putting on a show. It just feels like two characters who genuinely know one another very well. And that's Jon's sensibility. Jon is so good at grounding things. I remember that's why I was obsessed with Swingers when I was young - it's one of the most grounded comedies I've ever seen. And so Jon was always, in a great way, hard on [us] that it shouldn't feel cartoony."
In an interview, Chiwetel Ejiofor remarked on how his version of Scar is more "psychologically possessed" and "brutalized" than the one played by Jeremy Irons in the 1994 animated film. The original Scar, whose treacherous character mirrors Claudius in Shakespeare's Hamlet, tended to give off an air of strength and confidence, while having a violent temperament stirring underneath. But this time around, Ejiofor indicates that his version of Scar is more openly obsessive, frustrated, and enraged. "There's something quite interesting in knowing that you're always holding a lethal capacity," he said. "At the end of it, you're playing somebody who has the capacity to turn everything on its head in a split second with outrageous acts of violence."
It was the prospect of getting inside his head that made Chiwetel Ejiofor really want to play Scar, as he explained: "I was interested in understanding the real psychology of Scar, the psychology of a person who always feels as if they have been somehow mysteriously overpassed by the fates, by the gods themselves. That sense of not being in the rightful place and therefore living in a kind of parallel universe to the one that you're supposed to be in, what sort of psychology would that mean, and what would it go to over a period of time?"
When Pumbaa suggests keeping Simba, he explains that "one day when he's big and strong," a quote from "My Lullaby" from Lion King II, Simba's Pride (1998).
Scar's subplot about trying to make Sarabi his queen is a reworking of a subplot from the original film and the Broadway adaptation, in which Scar tries to make Nala his queen.
While just a face, instead of the whole body; the painting of Simba on Rafiki's tree is the same design as in the original movie.
This is Jon Favreau's second Disney remake based on a Disney animated movie after directing The Jungle Book (2016).
This movie is frequently referred to (quite wrongly) as a "live-action" film, despite not having a single living thing, human or otherwise, actually appearing on screen.
Rogen describes the Timon-Pumbaa relationship that he and Eichner forged as "a little bit of a married-couple dynamic. They care deeply for one another. They're very, very, very close friends, and like any two - I'm gonna say people who spend a lot of time together, they start to have things that start to bother one another about each other. Like, meerkats are very quick, fast-paced animals, and warthogs are a little on the slower side. And that dynamic pays off." Plus, Rogen adds, "it takes on a whole new shape once Glover's Simba enters the picture and is quickly convinced to live a life of languid luxury. Donald really added a hilarious element to the dynamic, and I really felt like me, him, and Billy made a bizarre yet very functional comedic trio."
Timon, in the original film, always stood, walked, and ran on his hind legs; Timon will be more realistic in this version, as he, like an actual meerkat, will be walking on all fours.
Jon Favreau cast Chiwetel Ejiofor in the role of Scar after Favreau watched his antagonistic performance as Baron Mordo in Doctor Strange (2016).
This serves as the final credit for film editor Mark Livolsi, who died in September 2018.
In the performance of Timon's big songs "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" and "Hakuna Matata" (shared with Pumbaa), audiences will also get acquainted with Eichner's musical theater pedigree, a defining, if underused, side of his identity as an artist that he can't wait to reveal. "Nathan Lane has a great singing voice [but] he didn't lean into it fully in the original version of The Lion King," he says. "I lean into a little bit more, and I think that's another way that this version is distinct: Timon's singing voice in this version is different than the original, and I think that adds a different flavor to it. When Timon speaks and when he's quote-unquote 'being funny,' he's very loud and boisterous, but the singing allows this vulnerable side, a slightly softer side, especially in 'Can You Feel the Love Tonight' and other moments. So I was glad that they encouraged me to do that because for me personally, it was pretty major."
Even though the film is CGI animated and the music scenes between characters make it seem like they were done separately; a lot of the time, the actors recorded their songs in the same room, face-to-face.
The filmmakers decided that adding human expressions to the animal's faces would look "weird", so they tried to convey emotions more through body language.
Likening his role to that of a grandfather, Kani said, "Rafiki reminds all of us of that special wise relative. His wisdom, humor and his loyalty to the Mufasa dynasty is what warms our hearts towards him. [He's] always happy and wisecracking jokes as lessons of life and survival."
Shahadi Wright Joseph (young Nala) screamed when she found out Beyoncé was going to be in the movie; she stated "and when I found out she was going to be playing the older [version of my character] me, I really had to step my game up and think about what Beyoncé would want."
Jon Faverau revealed that hearing Beyoncé sing "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" was "definitely extremely memorable." He added that "all of us just listened to it over and over. And she sings the duet with Donald Glover, who is an incredible talent as well, not only comedically, but also musically. So to hear the two of them together singing this classic song, with so much personality and emotion, we felt really confident that people are going to be excited when they heard this."
Rafiki's lithe appearance and dull colors make him more closely resemble a female mandrill; although, this could be excused as an attempt to convey his old age. Adult Simba roars atop Pride Rock, but the sound he makes is the typical Hollywood beefed up tiger-esque roar rather than an actual lion vocalization; he also does the stereotypical wide-mouth yelling posture commonly associated with roaring, but actual full-blown lion roars are produced with the mouth in an almost closed position similar to a howling wolf. Zazu has a combination of features from different hornbill species of the genus, Tockus. His general plumage coloration resembles red-billed hornbills, specifically Tanzanian red-billed hornbills (Tockus ruahae); his bill features a prominent casque, which all red-billed hornbill species uniquely lack, as well as being an orange-yellow color that is much more commonly found in both Southern and Eastern yellow-billed hornbills (T. leucomelas and T. flavirostris, respectively). A dik-dik is seen eating bugs alongside Timon, Pumbaa, and the other insectivores; this is something they rarely, if ever, eat in real-life.
Sarabi's design features spots on her forelimbs, to give her a more distinctive appearance relative to the other lionesses. This is similar to how in the cartoon canon, Kion (Simba and Nala's son from The Lion Guard) is the only lion character whose design [consistently] includes leg spots.
There are a total of 86 different species to be found in the movie.
Hugh Jackman was rumored to voice Scar, which was quickly denied by his representative. Nearly three weeks after this rumor, it was eventually confirmed to be Chiwetel Ejiofor, making his second time voice acting in a film after Sherlock Gnomes (2018).
Favreau used virtual reality tech to walk around the virtual set and design shots, treating it like a real location.
John Kani has insisted in several interviews that his voice character, Rafiki, has a different personality than his animated counterpart. According to Kani, Rafiki, is more of a 'down to earth' and 'no nonsense' character this time around and will take his job, getting Simba to see the error of his ways by going back as King, more seriously.
J.D. McCrary (young Simba), who pads around the Pride Lands as young Simba, gushes, "Donald Glover is so talented that I actually did have to take it into consideration. Because if Simba is going to grow up to be some sort of figure and you know of it, you have to keep that motive."
Beyoncé called "The Lion King" album that she worked tirelessly to create and explained how she was able to evoke a new genre of music through soundscapes that paint a picture of what unfolds in the movie. "This soundtrack is a love letter to Africa and I wanted to make sure we found the best talent from Africa, and not just use some of the sounds and did my interpretation of it," Knowles-Carter told ABC News. "I wanted it to be authentic to what is beautiful about the music in Africa," she said, adding that they used "a lot" of drums and "incredible new sounds mixed with some of the producers from America." The Beyoncé-produced-and-curated compilation album, "The Lion King: The Gift," features global artists and is due out July 19, the same day the film hits theaters.
When he started developing the movie, Favreau made a list of all the important moments he could remember off the top of his head from the original, as a reminder of the scenes he had to stay most faithful to.
Donald Glover said that the film will focus more on Simba's time growing up than the original film did. He stated that "[Favreau] was very keen in making sure we saw [Simba's] transition from boy to man and how hard that can be when there's been a deep trauma...
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