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

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.

Hang on, stop this thread. The Lion King is the first Disney film to have a fart joke? Is that really true? Clearly that can't be true? Does that include shorts? Clearly it's not true if it includes shorts? Right?

suspect the waterface short had one

Bedknobs and Broomsticks had Angela Lansbury rip a few iirc

I dunno what they got up to in Denmark Fred but I think most of us can believe it took until 1994 for the Disney Corporation to explore flatulence in their oeuvre

Altho Loony Tunes produced the seminal "He Who Smelt It, Dealt It" featuring Pepe le Pew in 1947 iirc

Quotes from Don Hahn, the director, from when I interviewed him years ago:

"It was controversial. It’s so old hat now, but at the time, especially in a Disney movie, there was a feeling that you couldn’t do that. We were more open to take risks, since we were already taking risks. We felt that, my God, they’re animals, what do animals do? They don’t have opposable thumbs, so they can’t pick up anything. Well, they run around and they poop. It’s just a funny character trait to assign to a wart hog. We had great support from the exectutives at the time. Once we previewed it a few times and the audience loved it – we got big kid laughs every time Poomba had his little problems. Interestingly, it’s all trombone sounds."

In Shr5k they’re gonna finally gonna show him cumming

it’s about time he returned the favour

lmao

loooooool

This looks fun.

The Lion King is a wonderful adaptation of an iconic classic. It has a few small changes which enhance what was already great and everything else is right on point. The CG can be slightly distracting at times but the emotion quickly covers that. Loved it. pic.twitter.com/9QmsP3PmNh

— Germain Lussier (@GermainLussier) July 10, 2019

wow the reviews are in it must be good

WaPo editorial yesterday made a p convincing case that this film/the basic story/source material are essentially fascist (regardless of the ethnicity of the voice talent).

We knew that in '94 tho, no?

Probably, I just hadnt thought about it

Also, I've no idea which thread this belongs in, if any, but ...

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WaPo editorial yesterday made a p convincing case that this film/the basic story/source material are essentially fascist (regardless of the ethnicity of the voice talent).

― Οὖτις, Thursday, July 11, 2019 9:52 AM (fourteen minutes ago)

hamlet?

idk how far back you wanna trace the lost prince vs. usurper of the throne plotline but it goes back way before Hamlet

(and that's not really one of the aspects that are fascistic)

this looks like dogshit

half the point of hamlet is that it is a psychedelic self-deconstructing version of a story you already know. it couldn't be hamlet if its plot were original. the lion king has more to do with henry iv anyway imo.

did not see wapo piece but yes clearly the hyenas are an underclass repressed in the name of a supposedly virtuous natural hierarchy that organizes sentient beings by species. scar at least is an interesting figure tho: not merely a pretender but a political adventurer, glibly fluent in revolutionary language for the purpose of exploiting class division on his way to supreme personal power. (his death at the vengeful hands of the very disaffected who formed his core support is nifty.) given this villain all the movie actually needs to become antifascist (if not antimonarchical) is for simba to learn values from timon and pumbaa that convince him to abandon his evil father's pious blather about the food chain and grant the hyenas full citizenship. by avoiding both this ending and its tragic mirror, in which t+p are cruelly banished (like falstaff) in a symbolic restoration of (im)moral order, i'm sorry to say that the film renders itself juvenile.

Lotta Richard III in Lion King too, obviously.

def-- scar is nothing like claudius tbh

half the point of hamlet is that it is a psychedelic self-deconstructing version of a story you already know. it couldn't be hamlet if its plot were original. the lion king has more to do with henry iv anyway imo.

I'm assuming that the people who wrote disney's the lion king are not experts in pre-early modern english literature and that the basic structure of "heir to the throne's father is killed by his uncle - who makes it look like an accident and usurps power to become king. prince fucks around a bit for a while - hamlet with the actors and rosenkrantz and guildenstern, simba with poomba and timon (ok poomba and timon are good guys and r and g are spies for claudius). mufasa is horatio (ok that's a stretch)" is more likely to have been taken from one of the best known pieces of world literature than not.

Which Shakespeare play is it where a warthog's dank farts kill all fauna within six yards' distance?

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)