The Lion King (2019)

[Brian G Turner]

Teaser trailer out:

 

[BAYLOR]

So are they going to do live action remakes of all their animated films then?

 

[Ursa major]

Next year's Lion King film isn't live action; it's photo-realistic animation.

 

[picklematrix]

I've been forced to watch the beauty and the beast live action movie so many times.
I hope this is a little better than that. Or a lot better.

 

[Pyan]

As the Bear says, calling it 'live action' is a little strong, as it would seem to be mainly (if not all) CGI.

You could easily cut eighty or so minutes from the original...

 

[Dave]

Has there ever been a film of the musical performance? I'd much rather see that with it's costumes and dance.

 

[Vladd67]

Has there ever been a film of the musical performance? I'd much rather see that with it's costumes and dance.

 

[HareBrain]

I was surprised how well this technology worked in The Jungle Book. My sister even pondered afterwards how they'd trained the animals!

It's exciting** how this opens the way for an endless stream of "live action" remakes of successful cartoons. We'll never need an original idea again! Also, by showing that real animals have hopes and dreams like the rest of us, and voices like Darth Vader and popular singers, it might turn the tide in the conservation battle. Or it might make people realise that now we have enhanced wildlife, we don't need the old boring stuff.

** [insert disclaimer]

 

[Narkalui]

Thank the Old Gods and the New that my step kids have grown out of this kind of thing...

 

[Dave]

Hey! Everyone likes the Lion King! If you are criticising it then we will have to have pistols at dawn. However, I suspect you mean this instead:

It's exciting** how this opens the way for an endless stream of "live action" remakes of successful cartoons. We'll never need an original idea again!

If so, then I agree. Having to buy all the new versions of these cartoons again must strike terror into any parent. I should know, I still have the VHS versions that I fully expected, once bought, would last forever. I was soon to discover that "forever" was an extremely long time in the world of film recording formats.

 

[AlexH]

I haven't seen the original animation.

 

[Dave]

I haven't seen the original animation.

Shocking

 

[Narkalui]

I haven't seen the original animation.

You and me both. I've also never been to Nandos.

 

[Pyan]

I was soon to discover that "forever" was an extremely long time in the world of film recording formats.

Hmm - somehow, I expected you to say that "forever" is an extremely short time in the world of film recording formats...

I've also never been to Nandos.

Isn't that a small island between Westeros and Essos?...

 

[AlexH]

You and me both. I've also never been to Nandos.

Me neither. Or Starbucks. I didn't know what Nandos was until quite recently.

 

[Dave]

I expected you to say that "forever" is an extremely short time...

That's probably what I meant, sorry.
I used to go to Nandos for work nights out about 20 years ago when it was still "new." It is odd that it is a South African company but selling Portuguese food, but the menu is very limited (hot, hotter, hottest chicken) and quickly gets boring. All coffee shops are over-priced.

Disney is something else though. It held such an exulted place that the BBC (who showed no advertising) still had a programme called "Disneytime" shown on Bank Holidays. They also had clever marketing that released films at 5-yearly intervals and released the VHS cassettes for sale, but then withdrew them after a certain time so they couldn't be seen. This produced a demand for them even though they were quite old (Snow White was made in the 1940's.) That is all changed now, you can see anything you want on a download.

 

[Brian G Turner]

So are they going to do live action remakes of all their animated films then?

Yes - that's what Disney plan to do, hence why we've already had a couple already, not least Beauty and the Beast and Jungle Book.

 

[Ursa major]

(Snow White was made in the 1940's.)

1937, actually, so it is at least** 81 years old. (The first showing was December the 21st 1937 according to Wiki.)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was, I think***, on terrestrial TV last Christmas (perhaps to mark the 80th anniversary of its first showing) and I watched it... so it seem that Disney's marketing really must have been clever.


** - Given how long it took to make, some parts of it will be even older.

*** - I suppose it may have been Christmas 2016... my memory is not what it was....

 

[night_wrtr]

I have young kids, so this is a priority movie. Hoping that my oldest two are ready to go to the movie theater for this one because I’m going. Aladdin and Lion King were my go to movies as a kid.

 

[Cli-Fi]

Teaser trailer out:

The animals look great, better and different cameras it seems than Jungle Book. The mood seems brighter too. I need to wait for the actual trailer to get a sense of the story. The original movie is an hour and a half so they don't need to go too much off script.