Why? Jungle Book was great.
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Disney announces The Lion King re-imagining, directed by Jon Favreau.
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Why? Jungle Book was great.
Lilo played by a real actress, rest animated. Just like Jungle Book.
Voysa Reezun
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Sorry, bruh, but I will forever believe that superhero movies in their current form peaked with Iron Man.
And judging by your avatar, you don't even want to know what I think about the Dark Knight trilogy.
Let's just have a virtual handshake here and leave it at that.
Discotheque
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Give it to Andrew Stanton. Keep this bland Favreau away from it.
Man it would be the shit. That's a live action Disney movie I can get behind. Superman mixed with Greek myth
The clash of the titans movies are terrible too so the characters are still pretty ripe for adaptation
pixelation
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You leave my childhood alone, thank you very much...
Yup, I would watch that.
theSlacker
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This is what I came to say. His Scar stood out in a cast of a bunch of big names. Easily the most memorable part of the movie for me was his voice.
Inferno313
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TheGreatDirector
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I've said it before and I'll say it again. I want Hunchback of Notre Dame and Gargoyles adaptations next.
KeyBladerXIII
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At...at the same time? Because if we can replace Hugo with Goliath...hmmm...
Livingskeletons
If I pulled that off, would you die?
Disney should remake this.
IsntChrisL
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The Jungle Book was dope. If it's in that same vein, I'm on board.
That's dope af. I'd watch that.
But if it's anything like The Jungle Book, I'm down. I was pleasantly surprised by that.
Mechanized
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Hollywood is still full of ideas.
Inferno313
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I'm one of the biggest proponents of not white-washing, but dude.. They're talking animals.
To answer your question though, Jungle Book had a fairly diverse voice cast.
Rastafarian42
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Lame.... remake the best Disney animated movie brehs
Discotheque
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Nah hollywood has plenty of original or creative output. Disney is like the worst place to look at in this case though
peanutbutterlatte
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Worked as a musical. Bit bitter since the original was so perfect, and a monumental part of my childhood.
Inferno313
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Why does that make you bitter?
Your childhood is over. They're not doing anything to the original film. Let a new generation of children enjoy a new take on the story.
Disney should remake this.
Idris Elba for Uncle Remus.
Prophet Steve
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Yeah indeed, pretty excited about this! Go me!
Speedydonut
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make a lion king live-action remake by filming sleeping, uncooperative zoo animals, and actors offscreen yelling lines
peanutbutterlatte
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Sorry if that wasn't clear, I agreed with that sentiment in that it worked as a musical, (phenomenally well actually) so room for more reimagining. Think I'm half asleep and meant to explain that further;
People hold their childhood as sacred so that's why they lash out at stuff like this. I need to watch Jungle Book...
Inferno313
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Frankly I couldn't give a shit about any film being remade. Though, I think the best remakes are remakes that tell a story in a different way. Whether by transplanting genre or medium. If someone wanted to do the equivalent of this, and remake Star Wars as an animated film, you can bet your ass I'd be there for the first showing.
Master Yoshi
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I'm intrigued to see what can be done with this re-imagining. The original movie had a runtime of 1 hour 29 minutes, so it will be interesting to see how they alter the story to increase the length of the movie.
As far as voice actors, I'm sure Disney will knock it out of the park. I thought The Jungle Book had a great cast.
I want to know if the animals will look as convincing as TJB, or if they will go for a more animated look.
Is this setting up a cinematic universe?
As far as voice actors, I'm sure Disney will knock it out of the park. I thought The Jungle Book had a great cast.
I want to know if the animals will look as convincing as TJB, or if they will go for a more animated look.
Is this setting up a cinematic universe?
patrickthehedgehog
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Disney kinda realizing that people just want gritty realism in their fun movies too.
This is like the HD console generation all over again!
I've heard Jungle Book is good at least.
This is like the HD console generation all over again!
I've heard Jungle Book is good at least.
civilstrife
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If the Broadway musical is anything to go by, very few. And rightly so.
I think only Zazoo, Timon and Pumba were white if I recall correctly.
Posts like this are so dumb they infuriate me, like, how in the fuck does this change anything about the original movie?
Gentleman Jack
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The stage production of lion king is awesome, so if that's their foundation I have no problems with a live action re-re-re-re-imagining of The Lion King ジャングル大帝.
RPGCrazied
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Live action? Lol. They should've just went CG. I haven't seen the new Jungle Book movie, but wasn't that like 3 animals in CG talking? The whole cast in Lion King is an animal.
Good luck I guess.
Good luck I guess.
Gentleman Jack
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It's like a reversal of the stereotypical Tyler Perry hero/villian setup. I dig it.
More than that. Every animal (and there were much more than 3) in jungle book was cg, even the environment. Only thing real was the kid (and maybe some humans he sees from a distance). So same thing with lion king. Will be all cg.
Hahaha
Discotheque
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I guess idris would be an alright substitute but man they are on a huge uphill climb with this one
Because I really don't see anybody being a worthy successor to James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons or Nathan Lane
The rest are interchangeable but those 3 work so damn well. But also casting them again renders this movie kinda redundant too so ehhh
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