Disney’s extraordinary slate of 2019 movies with Captain Marvel and ends with Star Wars Episode IX. But of all the films the Mouse House has slated for next year, perhaps the most highly anticipated is the „live action“ remake of the hit 1994\u2026<\/b>
\nDisney’s extraordinary slate of 2019 movies with Captain Marvel and ends with Star Wars Episode IX. But of all the films the Mouse House has slated for next year, perhaps the most highly anticipated is the „live action“ remake of the hit 1994 cartoon The Lion King. The animal-centric fairytale is Disney’s most ambitious remake so far in the burgeoning genre, and the first The Lion King live-action trailer suggests the results will blow audiences away.
The main draw of these remakes is the wonder of how technology has advanced over the last 90 years Disney has been in existence. The first live action remake was 2015’s Cinderella, originally drawn in 1950, when a computer took up an entire suite of rooms. Nowadays the effects that caused Disney to create it as a cartoon, like the CGI mice and the pumpkin turning into a carriage, are small potatoes compared to most films.
But The Lion King is far more complex. Unlike Cinderella, or even 2017’s Beauty & The Beast, there are no humans at the center of the story for CGI or motion capture creations to orbit around. The cast is entirely made up of animal characters, meaning a „live action“ production has to get creative about how to approach it.
The first trailer for The Lion King reveals which way Disney decided to go.
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