Photos Top cast Edit. Matthew Broderick Simba as Simba voice. Jeremy Irons Scar as Scar voice. James Earl Jones Mufasa as Mufasa voice. Whoopi Goldberg Shenzi as Shenzi voice. Rowan Atkinson Zazu as Zazu voice. Jim Cummings Ed as Ed voice …. Robert Guillaume Rafiki as Rafiki voice. Moira Kelly Nala as Nala voice. Nathan Lane Timon as Timon voice. Zoe Leader Sarafina as Sarafina voice. Cheech Marin Banzai as Banzai voice.
Ernie Sabella Pumbaa as Pumbaa voice. Madge Sinclair Sarabi as Sarabi voice. Judi M. Roger Allers Rob Minkoff. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. A young lion prince is cast out of his pride by his cruel uncle, who claims he killed his father.
While the uncle rules with an iron paw, the prince grows up beyond the Savannah, living by a philosophy: No worries for the rest of your days. But when his past comes to haunt him, the young prince must decide his fate: Will he remain an outcast or face his demons and become what he needs to be?
See it for the first time ever in 3D 3D re-release. Animation Adventure Drama Family Musical. Did you know Edit. Trivia Frank Welker provided all the lion roars. Not a single recording of an actual lion roaring was used because the producers wanted specific sounding roars for each lion. Goofs The elephant skeletons would have to come from freakishly large elephants. Hyenas could not pass through the trunk socket of an elephant's skull.
Quotes Adult Simba : I know what I have to do. Crazy credits There are no opening credits. The following changes were made to the film for this release: -This movie opens with "The Lion King: Special Edition" title card, following the Walt Disney Pictures logo.
Small details, such as the characters who had faces that were too small to be seen in the original had faces, were also added. Scar then forces Simba over the edge of Pride Rock, just as a lightning bolt starts a fire below. Enraged, Simba leaps up and pins Scar to the ground, forcing him to admit the truth to the pride. A raging battle ensues between the hyenas and the lionesses, Timon, and Pumbaa, which results in Simba cornering Scar.
Amid their fight, Scar tries to surreptitiously blame everything on the hyenas, but the hyenas overhear his conversation with Simba and back away growling.
Simba orders Scar to flee the Pride Lands. Scar pretends to leave but turns to attack Simba, resulting in a final duel. Simba eventually overpowers Scar by kicking and hurling him over a low cliff. Scar initially survives the fall but finds himself surrounded by the now resentful hyenas.
The hyenas surround their traitorous fallen leader. Scar frantically tries to absolve himself, but the hyenas finally had enough of his lies, derogatory treatment, and violated promises, so they ignore his life plea, attack him, and maul him to death, as flames rise around and engulf them. With Scar and the hyenas gone, the rightful king in place, and the Pride Lands restored, turning green with life again, Rafiki presents Simba and Nala's newborn cub into the air, thus continuing the Circle of Life.
During the conversation, the topic of a story set in Africa came up, and Katzenberg immediately jumped at the idea. The plot was centered in a battle being between lions and baboons with Scar being the leader of the baboons, Rafiki being a cheetah, [4] and Timon and Pumbaa being Simba's childhood friends.
Hahn found the script unfocused and lacking a clear theme, and after establishing the main theme as "leaving childhood and facing up to the realities of the world", asked for a final retool. Allers, Minkoff, Chapman, and Hahn then rewrote the story across two weeks of meetings with directors Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale , who had just finished Beauty and the Beast.
The Lion King was the first Disney animated feature to be an original story, rather than being based on an already-existing work. During the summer of , the team was joined by screenwriter Irene Mecchi, with a second screenwriter, Jonathan Roberts , joining a few months later. Mecchi and Roberts took charge of the revision process, fixing unresolved emotional issues in the script and adding comic business for Pumbaa, Timon and the hyenas.
Lyricist Tim Rice worked closely with the writing team, flying to California at least once a month, as his songs needed to work in the narrative continuity. Rice's lyrics — which were reworked up to the production's end — were even pinned to the storyboards during development. The voice actors were chosen for how they fit and could add to the characters — for instance, James Earl Jones was cast because the directors found his voice "powerful" and similar to a lion's roar.
Nathan Lane originally auditioned for Zazu, and Ernie Sabella for one of the hyenas. Upon meeting each other at the recording studio, the actors, who at the time both co-starred in Guys and Dolls , were asked to record together as hyenas. The directors laughed at their performance and decided to cast them as Timon and Pumbaa. Thus, his role was changed into a female hyena, Shenzi, who was voiced by Whoopi Goldberg. The development of The Lion King started concurrently with Pocahontas , which most of the animators of Walt Disney Feature Animation decided to work on instead, believing it would be the more prestigious and successful of the two.
Ultimately, more than artists, animators, and technicians contributed to The Lion King over the course of its production.
Weeks before the film was to be released, production was affected by the Northridge earthquake, which shut off the studio and required the animators to finish their work from home. The character animators studied real-life animals for reference, as was done for the Disney film Bambi. Jim Fowler, a renowned wildlife expert, visited the studios on several occasions with an assortment of lions and other savannah inhabitants to discuss behavior and help the animators give their drawings an authentic feel.
Varied focal lengths and lenses were employed to differ from the habitual portrayal of Africa in documentaries — which employ telephoto lenses to shoot the wildlife from a distance. The epic feel drew inspiration from concept studies by artist Hans Bacher — which, following Scribner's request for realism, tried to depict effects such as lens flare — and the works of painters Charles Marion Russell, Frederic Remington, and Maxfield Parrish.
The use of computers helped the filmmakers present their vision in new ways. The most notable use of computer animation is in the "wildebeest stampede" sequence. Several distinct wildebeest characters were created in a 3D computer program, multiplied into hundreds, cel-shaded to look like drawn animation, and given randomized paths down a mountainside to simulate the real, unpredictable movement of a herd.
Five specially trained animators and technicians spent more than two years creating the two-and-a-half minute stampede sequence. Other usages of computer animation were done through CAPS , which helped simulate camera movements such as tracking shots, and was employed on the coloring, lighting, and particle effects. The enthusiastic audience reception to an early Lion King film trailer, which consisted solely of the opening sequence with the song "Circle of Life", suggested that the film would be very successful.
While both The Lion King and Pocahontas were commercial successes, The Lion King received more positive feedback and earned larger grosses than did Pocahontas , released one year later. The complex wildebeest stampede scene took nearly three years to complete. The film's score was composed by Hans Zimmer and supplemented with traditional African music and choir elements arranged by Lebo M. He lures Simba and his friend Nala to go to a forbidden place and they are attacked by hyenas but they are rescued by Mufasa.
Then Scar plots another scheme to kill Mufasa and Simba but the cub escapes alive and leaves the kingdom believing he was responsible for the death of his father. Now Scar becomes the king supported by the evil hyenas while Simba grows in a distant land. Sometime later, Nala meets Simba and tells that the kingdom has become a creepy wasteland. What will Simba do? The King Has Returned. Animation Adventure Drama Family Musical.
Rated PG for sequences of violence and peril, and some thematic elements. Did you know Edit. Trivia Jon Favreau revealed in an interview that he brought James Earl Jones back as the voice of Mufasa because: "I see it as carrying the legacy across. Just hearing him say the lines is really moving and surreal, the timbre of his voice has changed. That served the role well because he sounds like a king who's ruled for a long time.
Goofs Scar's cover-up of his murder of Mufasa leaves a gaping hole: he sends Zazu to get the pride for help, and after the stampede, claims to the pride that he didn't reach the gorge in time to help Simba and Mufasa.
Zazu is implied to have been exiled from the pride after Scar's take-over given how the hyenas regularly try to eat him when he shows up , but considering Zazu still clearly regularly visited Pride Rock to relay information, it's a wonder how Scar's lie about not being able to make it to the gorge didn't get exposed by Zazu. Quotes Mufasa : Everything you see - exists together in a delicate balance.
Crazy credits The Disney logo has a hand-drawn animated design and resembles the s Disney logo, the same design used in Jon Favreau 's previous Disney film The Jungle Book User reviews 3K Review.
Top review. For looking so true-to-life, most of this film is lifeless. This remake manages to suck all the life out of the original. It really is like watching National Geographic while hearing The Lion King on in the other room. There is a total disconnect between what you are seeing on-screen and what you are hearing or supposed to feel-so much that I am surprised this was not noticed early on and left on the cutting room floor.
Baloo in Favreau's The Jungle Book alone should have been a warning sign. At its best, the soundtrack is only as good as the original. John Oliver does steal his scenes as Zazu and I'm a fan of Scar's character design. Visual effects are extremely well done, but for a production that looks so true-to-life, most of the film is lifeless. Very disappointed. FAQ 4. Why wasn't Jonathan Taylor Thomas cast for this as grown up Simba?
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