Disney has been making a lot of live-action versions of their popular films in recent years!
Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, The Jungle Book, Mulan, Lady and the Tramp, Aladdin— the list goes on and on. Their live-action version of The Lion King was incredibly successful, becoming the highest grossing animated movie of all time (which seems contradictory to the whole “live-action” thing). Disney previously announced that The Lion King‘s live-action movie would be getting a sequel, which was later revealed to actually be a prequel, and we have news about the project!
The Lion King live-action prequel movie has cast its leads!
Kelvin Harrison Jr. (Waves, The Trial of the Chicago 7) and Aaron Pierre (The Underground Railroad) will be leading voice cast, according to Deadline.
Production has already started on the movie, which will be directed by Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk) and explore Mufasa’s origin story!
Pierre will play Mufasa, and Harrison Jr. will play Taka (which is Scar’s real name).
Disney describes the film as live-action as it will use the photorealistic animation technology used on the previous Lion King live-action movie.
The music will be done by Hans Zimmer (who also scored the first live-action Lion King), Pharrell, and Nicholas Britell (Cruella, Succession).
There is no word on when the film will be released or other cast updates, but we’ll keep you posted, so stay tuned to All Ears for more!
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Yes I am very excited to hear about that