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.
Kilimanjaro does rise like Olympus above the Serengeti.
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