Half prequel, half sequel, no matter you name it, the brand new Disney movie Mufasa: The Lion King is unquestionably a star-studded challenge.
The movie was directed by Oscar winner Barry Jenkins and options new songs by Hamilton and Moana’s Lin-Manuel Miranda. The voice forged consists of many returning voices from the “live-action” remake of The Lion King of 2019 together with Donald Glover as Simba, Beyonce as Nala, Seth Rogen as Pumbaa, and Billy Eichner as Timon. Plus it has a complete new forged as effectively together with Aaron Pierre because the younger Mufasa, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Tiffany Boone, Mads Mikkelsen, and Thandiwe Newton.
Like The Lion King of some years in the past (which grossed $1.6 billion worldwide, therefore one other film popping out now) Mufasa is executed in a method that resembles live-action animals. (Disney’s press launch claims the movie was made by “mixing live-action filmmaking methods with photoreal computer-generated imagery.”) You possibly can see the impact for your self within the first Mufasa trailer under:
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There’s a new poster for the movie as effectively.
Right here is the movie’s official synopsis, which confirms the movie takes place in two timelines: One the previous of a younger Mufasa (Simba’s dad, initially voiced within the 1994 animated Lion King by James Earl Jones) and one after the occasions of The Lion King that includes Blue Ivy Carter because the voice of Simba and Nala’s daughter Kiara…
“Mufasa: The Lion King” enlists Rafiki to relay the legend of Mufasa to younger lion cub Kiara, daughter of Simba and Nala, with Timon and Pumbaa lending their signature schtick. Advised in flashbacks, the story introduces Mufasa as an orphaned cub, misplaced and alone till he meets a sympathetic lion named Taka—the inheritor to a royal bloodline. The prospect assembly units in movement an expansive journey of a unprecedented group of misfits looking for their future—their bonds will probably be examined as they work collectively to evade a threatening and lethal foe.
Mufasa: The Lion King premieres in theaters on December 20.

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