#The lion king circle of life movie#
Considering the 1994 film was the top-grossing movie of its time, and factoring in the success of “The Jungle Book” (the project whose nearly billion-dollar box office sparked this entire phenomenon), “The Lion King” could be Disney’s most successful do-over yet. That raises the inevitable question, “Why bother?” and though any number of artistic arguments could be made (no one balks when a fresh version of “Hamlet” hits the stage, and what is “The Lion King” but a leonine riff on Shakespeare’s regicidal classic?), the answer here can be spelled in dollars.
#The lion king circle of life update#
Technically, “live action” is the wrong way to describe the movie - it’s more a cover version, really - which is every bit as animated as the 1994 original, and leagues beyond Favreau’s 2016 “The Jungle Book” update in terms of how breathtakingly photo-realistic the visual-effects work looks.Īt times, the movie mimics the earlier Disney toon practically shot for shot - as in the presentation of baby Simba on Pride Rock and the spectacular wildebeest stampede that endangers him as a cub - so much so that composer Hans Zimmer didn’t need to change a note for these sequences. From the ecstatic Zulu chant that opens the film - “Nants ingonyama bagithi baba!” - to the thundering drumbeat that ends it, director Jon Favreau’s exhilarating live-action take on “ The Lion King” hews closer to the Walt Disney animated masterpiece than any of the studio’s recent remakes.
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