Meerkat Timon (Billy Eichner) and warthog Pumbaa (Seth Rogen) are the best part of Disney's remake of its 1994 animated classic "The Lion King." (COURTESY OF DISNEY)
The original "Lion King" won two Academy Awards (for song and score). In addition to the remake, the film spawned two animated sequels, two spin-off animated TV series and a Broadway musical. (COURTESY OF DISNEY)
Meerkat Timon (Billy Eichner) and warthog Pumbaa (Seth Rogen) are the best part of Disney's remake of its 1994 animated classic "The Lion King." (COURTESY OF DISNEY)
The original "Lion King" won two Academy Awards (for song and score). In addition to the remake, the film spawned two animated sequels, two spin-off animated TV series and a Broadway musical. (COURTESY OF DISNEY)
With “The Lion King,” Disney has unleashed its third “live-action” remake in less than six months, following “Dumbo” and “Aladdin.” I put live-action in quotation marks because this new “Lion King” is still animated, albeit with photo-realistic computer animation.
Disney and director Jon Favreau first experimented with this technology in 2016’s “The Jungle Book,” in which everything accept the actor playing Mowgli (Neel Sethi) was realistically computer animated. The photo-realistic talking animals were ever so slightly anthropomorphized, so that they could be able to emote. This was especially true of Baloo (voiced by Bill Murray).
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