Lion King - Official Trailer

[Chino]

I know remakes/reboots can get a lot of hate, but I am very excited for this.

https://youtu.be/4CbLXeGSDxg

[Adami]

So.......it's exactly the cartoon but realistic looking?

I mean, it's amazing what technology can do now, but.........yea, that felt pretty shot for shot, even if it was just a teaser.

[lordxizor]

I get the live action remakes, but there's basically nothing live action about this. It's just a different form of animation. I'm still excited about it though. I love the Lion King.

[Adami]

I get the live action remakes, but there's basically nothing live action about this. It's just a different form of animation. I'm still excited about it though. I love the Lion King.

Also a very good point.

[cramx3]

It'll do well I bet, but no interest from me.  I don't really need to see a realistic animation of this movie.  I also hardly watch movies anyway so I'm a hard sell.

[Adami]

Oh this movie's making a billion dollars within a month.

[Ben_Jamin]

I wouldn't call it a live remake. It's more of a realistic remake.

[gmillerdrake]

Looks cool. There are a couple generations of kids that most likely have not seen the Lion King.....and will never sit through the original given how ‘old’ the animation is.

I get the push back against remaking this but, even if it is shot for shot it’s a good movie and it’ll reach a whole new group of kids/young adults.

I’ll go see it.

[Adami]

I'm not pushing back. Just kind of a missed opportunity......IF.....it's mostly shot for shot. When you update a movie like this, you have the opportunity to do some interesting stuff. It'd just be a shame if they wasted that opportunity.

[Ben_Jamin]

I'm not pushing back. Just kind of a missed opportunity......IF.....it's mostly shot for shot. When you update a movie like this, you have the opportunity to do some interesting stuff. It'd just be a shame if they wasted that opportunity.

It'll likely be how The Jungle Book was.

[Adami]

Well the Jungle Book cartoon was....barely anything. Then they took it and made a  much bigger, different, more fleshed out story from it.

The Lion King cartoon is....perfect as is. I dunno what they would really add or change.

Beauty and the Beast is more of what I expect. Shot for shot with a few extra little things on occasion.

[Ben_Jamin]

I haven't seen The Beauty and The Beast remake, nor have I seen much of the cartoon. So, I wouldn't know about it.

I'm excited to see the movie for the realistic approach

[gmillerdrake]

I'm not pushing back. Just kind of a missed opportunity......IF.....it's mostly shot for shot. When you update a movie like this, you have the opportunity to do some interesting stuff. It'd just be a shame if they wasted that opportunity.

I agree with that. There’s no need for a shot for shot. The scene in the trailer is iconic so I understand they’d want to stick to it pretty close. But I think they could get away with some modifications to the dialogue and scenes and still hit the ‘story’

[Destiny Of Chaos]

It looks stunning. And I'm sure I'm in the minority when I say this, but if we're not getting Jeremy Irons, I don't want James Earl Jones, if that makes sense.

[PetFish]

Holy crap this looks amazing!

Doing a little research and Darth Vader is the only returning voice, they re-cast everyone else, and all the comedy-relief characters are white (Poomba, Timon, Zazoo) and everyone else are black.  Not sure if they're just re-using his original tracks or he's re-recording them.  Dunno why they didn't bring back Jeremy Irons as scar or Whoopi Goldberg as Queen Hyena.

I'm all for ethnic and gender diversity but it seems lately that society is obviously over-compensating for historic prejudices and injustices.

[lordxizor]

As for all the voice actors being black, the characters are essentially all African, so that sort of makes sense. It is weird they would bring back James Earl Jones but none of the other original voice actors.

[cramx3]

What about Elton John's music?

[ReaperKK]

What about Elton John's music?

I was wondering about this too. I hope they don't remake Elton John's songs with another artist.

I'm pretty pumped for this movie.

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

Hans Zimmer is doing the score once again and Elton John is reworking his songs with help from Beyonce.
"Can You Feel the Love Tonight", "Hakuna Matata", "I Just Can't Wait to Be King", and "Circle of Life are all confirmed to be in the movie.

[lordxizor]

I read that "Be Prepared" is the only song not in it.

[Ben_Jamin]

Hans Zimmer is doing the score once again and Elton John is reworking his songs with help from Beyonce.
"Can You Feel the Love Tonight", "Hakuna Matata", "I Just Can't Wait to Be King", and "Circle of Life are all confirmed to be in the movie.

I'll be sad if there's no Be Prepared.

[Cool Chris]

I've never seen The Lion King.

Hans Zimmer is doing the score once again and Elton John is reworking his songs with help from Beyonce.

Oh good. If there is one thing Elton John needs, it's help from Beyonce.

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

I've never seen The Lion King.

Hans Zimmer is doing the score once again and Elton John is reworking his songs with help from Beyonce.

Oh good. If there is one thing Elton John needs, it's help from Beyonce.

Yea well maybe he needs someone to hold his G&T.

[Polarbear]

Lion King is the best Disney movie of all time IMO, so this remake has a lot to live up to. I don't expect it to be anywhere near as great, which doesn't mean it cannot be good.

Hans Zimmer is doing the score once again and Elton John is reworking his songs with help from Beyonce.
"Can You Feel the Love Tonight", "Hakuna Matata", "I Just Can't Wait to Be King", and "Circle of Life are all confirmed to be in the movie.

This is a good sign IMO.

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

From the trailer I get the feeling this is more a remastered Lion King in CGI but with new voice actors and not a remake or retelling. Could be a cool thing if the just copy they movie to CGI. Hopefully it's not a 2019 PC Lion King with PETA approval. 

Now what I wanna see is a real LIVE action movie, meaning with real animals. Now THAT would have been something too see especially the behind the scenes. 

[RuRoRul]

Now what I wanna see is a real LIVE action movie, meaning with real animals. Now THAT would have been something too see especially the behind the scenes. 

Just watch yesterday's episode of Dynasties from BBC. Interesting behind the scenes and all.

(example clip  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtBTPT8qtgE )

[Chino]

Hans Zimmer is doing the score once again and Elton John is reworking his songs with help from Beyonce.
"Can You Feel the Love Tonight", "Hakuna Matata", "I Just Can't Wait to Be King", and "Circle of Life are all confirmed to be in the movie.

I'll be sad if there's no Be Prepared.

People on r/movies on Reddit are saying that this song will not be included in the sound track. I'm not sure if that's a fact or not, but it will be a bummer if that's the case. It's my favorite song off the sound track.

[Destiny Of Chaos]

Yep easily the best song.....that sucks

[hefdaddy42]

Looks cool. There are a couple generations of kids that most likely have not seen the Lion King.....and will never sit through the original given how ‘old’ the animation is.

I doubt that very seriously.

[gmillerdrake]

Looks cool. There are a couple generations of kids that most likely have not seen the Lion King.....and will never sit through the original given how ‘old’ the animation is.

I doubt that very seriously.

Which part? The 'couple generations' or that the current generation of younglings wouldn't sit through the original Lion King?

[Adami]

I think the number of kids who won’t watch the original, but that would watch the remake is very very small.

I hope at least.

[Chino]

Gary's right. We had people over two weekends ago, several of which were young-ish mothers with kids in the 1-5 year range. We were on the topic of what kinds of movies kids watch today, and all but one said their kids don't want to watch the old movies. They want to watch the Toy Stories the new Beauty and the Beast instead.

You know, part of me wants to get on about how much of a bummer that is, but as a child, and I guess even now as an adult, I just won't watch black and white movies. I think I've seen two in my entire life (Schindler's List and Refer Madness). As a kid, I just couldn't wrap my head around watching black and white when color was available. It's why no one touched their Gameboy Pocket again once the Color came out. My brain wanted the color. I enjoyed the color. I wouldn't be surprised if the brains of the kids today sort of crave the new-age 3D animations over the flat stuff we had.

[cramx3]

Yea, as a kid I had no interest in watching older movies. 

[Cool Chris]

I think the number of kids who won’t watch the original, but that would watch the remake is very very small.

I think the complete opposite as you, Adami (NO WAY!)

[Adami]

I think the number of kids who won’t watch the original, but that would watch the remake is very very small.

I think the complete opposite as you, Adami (NO WAY!)

Let me be hopeful!

I guess I just find it sad, is all. But then I remembered I have a 25 year old coworker who won't watch movies before the year 2000 (In general, not 100%). It's just.......sad, to me.