Jon Favreau and Disney Working on Live Action Lion King Film

In the line of recent successes of Live action films with Disney, they have decided to add “The Lion King” to the roster.

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Jon Favreau was the most obvious choice to take on such a project after he proved that technology could breathe new life into beloved classics in the live action style. Favreau worked on “The Jungle Book” which was a major box office success for Disney. Due to the success of the film, it was speculated he would work on a sequel for it.

This morning it was confirmed that he would be bringing the beloved Disney classic to life. No release date was brought up but with the length of production for “The Jungle book”, we shouldn’t expect it anytime in the near future. The film will include all the wonderful music we have come to know and love over the years.

With upcoming live action films such as “Beauty and the Beast”, What are your thoughts on the live action trend for Disney?

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2 comments

  • Phantom Marie

    This is pretty much an example of why Disney doesn’t understand the “If Its Not Broken Don’t Fix It” saying, I’m mean the movie will probably still look amazing but the only real difference is that all the animals will be CGI. Sure there probably be different voice actors for all the characters and maybe they’ll put in something new thats not from the original movie (like a different song for example), but if ask me its probably just gonna be a full 88 minutes of all the same stuff we’ve seen in the original film with minor differences here and there and the only big difference is that all the Characters will be CGI.

  • Carmine Crincoli

    The Lion King is one of the most beloved and acclaimed animated musical box-office hits Disney has ever created and I loved and grew up with the classic film! I hope you should do live-action remakes of Hercules, Tarzan and other hit films Disney! Be prepared for a live-action remake of The Lion King from Disney and director Jon Favreau! I wanna see a lot of great voice actors from the original Disney film to reprise their iconic roles and I wanna see Idris Elba as Scar, Lupita N’yongo as Sarabi, etc.!