Disappointing critiques didn’t decelerate “The Lion King” even somewhat bit, with the newest Disney remake pulling in a fairly royal haul in its opening weekend. So “Dumbo” however, it appears like there’s no remake fatigue setting in simply but.
That’s good for Disney, as “The Lion King” is poised to be yet one more huge blockbuster for the Mouse House, one that ought to proceed their domination on the field workplace in 2019. The authentic animated movie got here out 25 years in the past in 1994, so the nostalgia issue is ripe for an entire era of ’90s youngsters.
Fittingly, Jon Favreau’s new take retains fairly devoted to the unique, even aiming to digitally recreate moments just like the “Circle of Life” opening sequence just about shot for shot. The new “Lion King” movie runs about half an hour longer than the unique, however the adjustments and additions are few and much between. Still, Favreau might have determined to slide in somewhat bonus scene — like, say, a enjoyable additional scene with the sensible Timon and Pumba — after the credit.
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However, “The Lion King” doesn’t have a post-credits scene. When the movie’s title card famously booms onto display screen on the finish simply because it does within the authentic, that’s all of us. You can safely head dwelling with out lacking something.
There is nonetheless a brand new track that you simply didn’t hear within the ’94 model. Elton John and Tim Rice teamed up once more as they did in 1994 for a track known as “Never Too Late” that leads off the movie’s finish credit. The Motown-inflected, upbeat quantity was recorded by John together with an African choir, and it additionally seems on the movie’s official soundtrack.
John had teased again in 2018 that the track would possibly find yourself being a collaboration with Beyonce, however that didn’t pan out, and she or he has her personal authentic observe known as “Spirit” that performs throughout the movie. John and Rice every received an Oscar for “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” on the animated “Lion King,” and it’s possible that each their track and Beyonce’s will likely be within the hunt for an Oscar nomination come 2020 as properly.
All 15 Disney Live-Action Remakes of Animated Classics, Ranked from Worst to Best (Photos)
Over the final decade, Disney has discovered itself dipping more and more into its personal properly of nostalgic favorites. Specifically, they’ve been taking their beloved animated classics, remaking them in live-action (or largely live-action), and producing one blockbuster smash after one other. Let’s check out the entire live-action remakes of Disney’s animated classics, going all the best way again to the 1990s, to discover which movies improved on the unique and which of them got here up brief.
15. “The Jungle Book” (1994)
The first live-action Disney remake of an animated Disney traditional is, by some means, nonetheless the worst. Stephen Sommers (“The Mummy”) directs this frustratingly inert tackle Rudyard Kipling’s tales, which strips the animals of their characterizations and highlights as a substitute the tasteless experiences of British colonizers, who condescend to Mowgli (Jason Scott Lee) at each flip. Some of the supporting performances, particularly by Cary Elwes and Lena Headey, are noteworthy, however the remainder of the film is a sloppy throwback to a mercifully bygone period of journey filmmaking, filled with backwards mentalities and underwhelming motion.
14. “Christopher Robin” (2018)
The beloved tales of A.A. Milne have been beforehand tailored by Disney into a number of fantastically animated and heartwarming movement footage. So it’s particularly cloying that Marc Forster’s “Christopher Robin” simply plops these timeless characters right into a tepid and…