Walt Disney Pictures’ 2019 film “The Lion King” is a photorealistic, computer-generated animation remake of the 1994 traditional animated film of the same name. It’s the most recent of Disney’s remakes of their animated films, following “Cinderella,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Dumbo,” and “The Jungle Book” (whose director, Jon Favreau, also helmed and produced “The Lion King”).
Among all the Disney animated movies, “The Lion King” presented a unique and daunting challenge in becoming the latest of its live-action adaptations for a very simple reason: There were no human characters in it. Every one of the 1994 classic’s characters is an animal and while you can indeed render all of them in stylized form in the animated film, you cannot do that for the 2019 live-action version.
At “The Lion King” on Sunday, my daughter Gia commented, “Mom, there’s three generations of us here.”
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When Lebo M., now known as “the voice and spirit of ‘The Lion King,’” began working on the 1994 Disney animation “The Lion King” over two decades ago, he didn’t know it was going to be such a phenomenon. “I wish had. I don’t think any of us had a sense of what the film was going to do or be,” he said.
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Don’t be late when watching the Manila run of “The Lion King” at Theatre at Solaire. Make sure you’re settled in your theater seat because the opening act is incredible. After over two months of rehearsals, the world’s No. 1 musical kicked off its first international tour in Manila and will run until May 6, before proceeding to Singapore, Korea and Taiwan.
And why he thinks the Philippines is in the DNA of the production currently running at Solaire
