Live Action Lion King?

[Kerriki]

Boy, am I excited xD

It will be interesting to see what they do with it for sure. Change the story around a bit and make it a bit darker (just like "The Jungle Book")? Sounds great. And as what Borborigmus pointed out, since the original Lion King was based on Shakespeare's "Hamlet", it will give them lots of wiggle room for darker/scarier stuff. And just imagining all of the characters as real life animals seems pretty cool too

I predict this will either be just ok or great; I think it will be really difficult for them to make this bad. But yeah, I know the CGI will be pawesome!!

[Morqque]

hollee jesus

[Morgra]

Thanks for the input guys

Boy, am I excited xD

It will be interesting to see what they do with it for sure. Change the story around a bit and make it a bit darker (just like "The Jungle Book")? Sounds great. And as what Borborigmus pointed out, since the original Lion King was based on Shakespeare's "Hamlet", it will give them lots of wiggle room for darker/scarier stuff. And just imagining all of the characters as real life animals seems pretty cool too

I predict this will either be just ok or great; I think it will be really difficult for them to make this bad. But yeah, I know the CGI will be pawesome!!

I know, right? I have a feeling Scar is going to look interesting. Are they going to make him darker like the original or colored like a realistic lion? Makes ya wonder. Will also be cool to see a darker storyline if they change it much.

hollee jesus

XD

[Kuri]

"Never mess up a classic"  Hopefully enough of the original creators are still around to make it work.  Scene for scene line for line remakes are pretty safe.  Hopefully they don't butcher it to try and make it edgy or cringe.

[OkamiKyuubi]

I'd say I'm pretty hype. Maybe because I get easily enthusiastic about animated films or games becoming live action films(yes yes, I know not all adaptations or reimagined works are the best but I like to stay hopeful the creators will use the material well).

My hopes aren't too high at least, but if they make it extremely well, then WOO for them and WOO for the fans, cause I -Removed by moderator- love Lion King.

[bunnylions]

FH has a possibility of undergoing drastic changes.

[aerotechway1]

I saw the Jungle Book, and if they can pull that off, I'm hyped to see this! I wonder if they'll add in more hidden details that we may have missed from the animated story.

[magicfairy]

Hmm, I hope they pull this off well. I'm actually kinda upset about this because I'm a big fan of 2D animation and The Lion King is one of my favorite 2D animated films. Other than that as long as the story is good I'll enjoy it.

[Tifu]

I think the live action Lion King will be a great movie!
If they do change the story up a bit, I wonder how they will do it?
I am actually kind hyped for this!

[Morgra]

Bump with update

Walt Disney updated their Twitter with a preview of the cast selection. James Earl Jones is the only original voice. I think the only voice i'm disappointed with is Scar's (I love Jeremy Irons) but perhaps this will be good, who knows.