I believe this just came out a couple of days ago. Much though I’m not a fan of Disney, or indeed the “live action” (in this case, that’s a lol in itself) remakes, at least this is an original story, even if it completely retcons the entire Lion King plot, lol…
I won’t spoil it, but, umm, I would say it is to The (original) Lion King what Wicked is to The Wizard of Oz. Very much the same concept. And doesn’t really make sense, if we’re taking the story from the original as being the (fictional) truth.
Anyway, it also features tribes of lions differentiated by fur colour (lol), quite a lot of the biblical story of Moses, and lions climbing snowy mountains (in Southern Africa??), so… Yeah.
Looks relatively okay though, all things considered. But I would be interested in hearing the thoughts of others on it.
There are snowy mountains in Africa at certain times of the year. Obviously a lion isn't going to go with there, but eh.
It depends on how the fur color is distinguished. Children actually need pretty aggressive signaling to tell the difference between characters. You'll notice in Lion King 2, the bad female lionesses are given a gray hue to make it clear which ones are on which side, along with dysgenic features making them the bad guys.
Running the story of Exodus might make some kinda sense, but most of it is Moses absolutely bitching out the rest of his jews for being petty retards. Generally, I don't think that's a good precursor to a story that is based off of Hamlet. Frankly, I think it would make more sense for it to run like Othello or something.
Oh, I know there’s snow in some mountains down there - specifically the Drakenburg, which I used as a convo starter with a Saff’s girl once, lol. And I guess Lesotho might get snow, too.
But as I recall that’s fairly irregular, vs this trailer which looked like the ducking avalanche scene from Mulan, or something, lol…
I don’t think anywhere in Africa ever gets that much snow, even Morocco or Kili.
But then again this is a movie about talking lions, so… Yeah.
I think Scar also has an American accent in this, so they clearly don’t give a shit about continuity or logic at this point…
I don't actually know what accent Jeremy Iorns has besides 'sophisticated'.
I think he’s English, but yeah, it’s usually like… Washed-up posh guy who’s barely even trying, lol.
Then again, I haven’t seen him in anything much since Eragon, if you remember that abomination…
I loved that book, and have even met the author, so going into it I was like, “Wait what? What is this?”
He really phoned that one in, lol.
I actually liked Eragon. Luckily, I never read the book, so I couldn't be disappointed in that difference. I was just like: "huh, dragons" went to go see the movie.