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.
Nah, I didn't really get that vibe from the trailer (we mostly just see them as cubs and as juveniles/teenagers, though) - more like, "Mufasa was the usurper all along, and the throne was rightfully Taka/Scar's to take!"
Which is an odd flex for them to go with, but anyway.
They also made them unrelated by blood (which contradicts canon), and made them look... Pretty much the same. Which I suppose makes sense (i.e. lions in real life don't look like Scar in the animated film), but just makes the whole thing a bit... Off.
As I said, this seems like what "Wicked" is to the "Wizard of Oz", or as "Maleficent" is to "Sleeping Beauty" - a spinoff that largely contradicts the original story, and uses the same characters, but with entirely different characteristics, motivations, etc...
It sounds like they're doing the classic "maybe Scar wasn't such a bad guy after all" thing, which tons of fucking leftists do when they re-write the canon/lore of established franchises.
They did this with Acolyte, and they do this with tons of shit where there's a race-swapped or sex-swapped character. That particular character ends up acting like a total faggot but we are expected to sympathize with them because they're an imaginary grievance group and because of that it's perfectly ok for the character to be a giant piece of shit to the rest of the characters in the entertainment media.
Sympathetic Satan