The Lion King (Jon Favreau-directed 'live action' remake, 2019)

Can there at least be trained meerkats?

I mean I can’t speak for others but I’m not seeing much evidence of surprise itt - it’s in the first post

It's not a question of realizing it, it's more about the fact that the marketing team is using the phrase "live action" and it's being released by a corporate division called Disney Live Action and it's like, words actually mean things, you know?

I’ve heard of words.

a lion king remake that actually used real lions would be hilarious, i imagine it'd be just shot after shot of lions sitting around looking bored accompanied by celebrity voiceovers

Baby Simba is cute as hell, at least.

mmm furry deepfake

unperson, you are right and this is making me insane now

They remade an animated movie with ... a different type of animation!

this is like not even a remake, its a remaster, thank you

original Lion King is not good, boring story and terrible songs etc, but it made a billion dollars and I guess it really will never die.

with this and dumbo they make some of the animals look realistic and then they make the main character a cg blob. maybe it's because they're the only one you see up close with facial expressions. idgi.

Do kids actually want to see these weird looking movies or is it just for like

shut the fuck up pic.twitter.com/WFN4EoWW2N

— ? (@JucheMane) November 2, 2017

Kids will get dragged along I guess, the real target has to be the kidult army

I thought hearing about a live action Lady & the Tramp recently sounded really dodgy but hadn't heard anything about this.
Probably worth seeing for rubbernecking reasons. I don't know, is it worth seeing truly execrable films just so that you know the contrast?

so is disney now 100% devoted to churning out cynical copyright-extension remakes of its previous successes while pixar does all the new ip?

My understanding is yes

Oh no wait they've got Wreckit Ralph 2 coming out for the tru cinephiles

not gonna lie, i'm looking forward to that

if they keep the songs then I'm gonna see this about a dozen times, my kids can't get enough of those tunes & this movie will be better than 99% of the trash that's in theaters aimed at kids

i want to see a cheetah's mouth open up and human talking come out

There are at least 2 Eddie Murphy movies i think you'll be interested in then

The “live action” marketing angle is their way of saying that it has a more realistic style than Madagascar

so is disney now 100% devoted to churning out cynical copyright-extension remakes of its previous successes while pixar does all the new ip?

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idk Coco was a high-water mark for both Disney and Pixar imo

at least they didn't waste money on a new screenplay huh

Maybe Nala can take over Pride Rock in this one.

lmao a new writer actually DID get a screenplay credit for this

Needed to punch up the fart gags

Cant wait for 2024 when they spend 200 million to reenact the sword in the stone including the bits where they ran out of money and had to repeat whole chunks of animation

If only they'd run out of money

can't wait for 2040 when they remake the live-action remake of cinderella with hand-drawn animation

Pride Rock Steven Tyler concert

hey eric andre is in this thing

I was hoping this would be like an old timey Disney cartoon where stock footage of lions is used and some 70 year old baritone narrator tells the audience what that translates to in human-speak

Jesus, Disney has three of these coming out in the next year. Lion King, Dumbo, and Aladdin with Will Smith playing Robin Williams. This is the most horrid thing happening in modern cinema.

Can't wait for the 20 scenes of elephant shit

Who's playing the crows in Dumbo?

Sacha baron Cohen iirc

what's the over/under on easter eggs referencing weed

I was hoping this would be like an old timey Disney cartoon where stock footage of lions is used and some 70 year old baritone narrator tells the audience what that translates to in human-speak

extremely otm. lost opportunity by Disney to get 10 dollars from me & 10 from Neanderthal and zero from everybody else

Nah i'd've gone to that too

Can't wait for the 20 scenes of elephant shit

The unforeseen consequence of Aladdin's first wish

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Man, you know those Hallmark Christmas movies are even more wholesome than these Disney movies for children since they don’t have like Ratatouille guy being like “LET ME ALLUDE TO HAVING A TINY COCK”

those production companies aren’t even allowed to have an implication that romance is occurring beyond a lingering glance, I mean they need to see in the script that for example at the end of the date the dude walks away and goes to his car and drives off. And iirc nobody’s drinking wine unless they have a problem with it.

will the live-action remake of the disney robin hood have CGI animals or just boring old real people playing the characters?

kevin costner in a foxboy furry outfit or it's bullshit

DISNEY EXEC: Pride Rock? We always hated how striking and iconic it looked. The sun hit it too beautifully. Is there any way we could make it look more like [points to turd mood board] a couple of turds piled together on an overcast day? pic.twitter.com/GaU3tkcq3J

— Neil Cicierega (@neilcic) November 23, 2018

a 2 hour, $200MM homage to poop

The Shit King

neil c is the final authority on this tbf

We saw the scary trailer for Dumbo today, it's a bit rich to bill it as "from the imagination of Tim Burton" when all it is is a live-action remake of a cartoon. Albeit one of Walt Disney's few totally original ideas, if I recall correctly. So at least it isn't an adaptation of an adaptation. But given The Lion King is famously the first Disney film to have a fart joke, I wouldn't rule out photorealistic poop jokes in this one.

there are a number of fart jokes in shakespeare's oeuvre

thanks for the fascism heads up comrades, my cousin wanted me to take him to see this so i punched him in the face

Good!

cousin-punching is praxis

They talk, yes, which makes them likely to set up a fascistic dictatorship (the dictator dictates, i.e. speaks) but the fact that these are animals is not irrelevant to the tale. Aesop, La Fontaine and their ilk are least interesting when read as allegorical anthropomorphists.

i have shot mine arrow o'er the house,
and punched my cousin

Comedy of Errors: "A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind
Ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind."

Othello: "CLOWN: Are these, I pray you, wind instruments?
FIRST MUSICIAN: Ay marry are they, sir.
CLOWN: O, thereby hangs a tail.
FIRST MUSICIAN: Whereby hangs a tail, sir?
CLOWN: Marry, sir, by many a wind instrument that I know."

And many more!

dlh otm, maybe you should write a wapo editorial about this movie

…and apply for an assistant professorship in Media Studies at the University of Utrecht.

*"The Aristocrats!" tone of voice* "The Lion King!"

"The Aristocrats!" also would have worked at the end of Midsommer.

They're deepfake-action remaking The Aristocats now too?

Yep! And Mulan!

And Little Mermaid!

They talk, yes, which makes them likely to set up a fascistic dictatorship (the dictator dictates, i.e. speaks) but the fact that these are animals is not irrelevant to the tale.

well it cuts both ways right cuz its preshishely becaushh they are animals that the natural order of predation can be so explicitly defended (just as human fascism must wrap itself in darwinian rhetoric). and since they not only talk but all talk the same language-- and since, ed aside, they are all fully sapient (made with such large discourse, looking before and after)-- it is hard for me to read the movie as glimpse into alien landscape. intrigued tho

in fairness the hyenas are shunned due to their overconsumption - which when allowed to continue unchecked under scar destroys the ecosystem - and thus are not really analogous to subaltern populations in our world - who consume much less than the rich and powerful

counterpoint: that characteristic slots neatly into caricatures of "welfare queens", "lazy" black people etc.

or Jews as rapacious parasites etc

Oh right, Jon Favreau directed it!

xp

well it cuts both ways right cuz its preshishely becaushh they are animals that the natural order of predation can be so explicitly defended (just as human fascism must wrap itself in darwinian rhetoric). and since they not only talk but all talk the same language-- and since, ed aside, they are all fully sapient (made with such large discourse, looking before and after)-- it is hard for me to read the movie as glimpse into alien landscape. intrigued tho

It does cut both ways, no question about it, but speaking on behalf of kid pomenitul, exposure to fable-like narratives was primarily a means of encountering an otherness and strangeness beyond human ken rather than a mere mirror of adult mores. Denying their pedagogical, domesticating function would be silly, but allegories are always more (or less) than just allegories: there is an inevitable opaqueness to them that thwarts authorial and hence moral intent. Utterly transparent allegories (or symbols, for that matter) are a pipe dream and child me was mostly glad to catch a glimpse of the animal 'kingdom', irrespective of its presumed social/hierarchical structures, which I found less interesting than the individual characters on display, as well as the art and voice acting that brings them to life.

oh for sure, to be clear i watched this movie on vhs more or less daily 1995-1996 and had a crush on nala

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— Mick LaSalle (@MickLaSalle) July 17, 2019

Which just goes to prove ...

Lion King reviews are camp.

— Kyle Stevens (@cinementalist) July 11, 2019

watching this on TV now, how on earth did they manage to fuck it up this badly? every character looks like it's been killed, stuffed and had its lips animated with the wombo app

i saw two seconds of it, channel-hopping, and it looks even stupider than i imagined

their rules are baffling - their realism accepts lions talking and singing and believing in the divine right of kings but not dancing or emoting or being gay (disney won't rest until they've reimagined all their great villains as straight)