Lion King 2019: First Teaser Trailer Released For New Film
12:31 AM
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures just released the first
teaser trailer for director Jon Favreau's The Lion King, which roars
into theaters on July 19, 2019. The photorealistic computer-animated remake of
the 1994 classic features an all-star voice cast: Eric Andre as Azizi, Beyoncé as
Nala, Billy Eichner as
Timon, Chiwetel Ejiofor as
Scar, Donald Glover as
Simba, James Earl
Jones as Mufasa, John Kani as Rafiki, Florence Kasumba as
Shenzi, Keegan-Michael
Key as Kamari, John Oliver as
Zazu, Seth Rogen as
Pumbaa, JD McCrary as
young Simba, Shahadi
Wright Joseph as young Nala and Alfre Woodard as
Sarabi.
Set
to Hans Zimmer's
score, the teaser trailer shows the animal kingdom with Mufasa telling his son
Simba, "Everything the light touches is our kingdom. But a king's time as
rule rises and falls like the sun. One day, the sun will set on my time here
and will rise with you as the new king." As "Circle of Life"
plays, the trailer shows every animal arriving to welcome the little lion.
Disney announced Favreau would be making reimagining The Lion King in
2016, following the success of his Jungle Book remake;
the latter film, starring Neel Sethi and featuring the voice talents of Idris
Elba, Giancarlo
Esposito, Scarlett
Johansson, Ben Kingsley, Bill
Murray, Lupita
Nyong'o, Gary
Shandling and Christopher
Walken, earned $966 million at the box office.
Disney's The Lion King remake that's releasing in 2019 is very much a
live-action movie despite being practically all CGI. In recent years, it seems
as if Disney
is only good at live-action remakes rather than
making their more "original" live-action movies, such as A Wrinkle in Time and The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, even though those
movies are still based on pre-established properties. So, it's understandable
that they would want to continue down that path.
Needless
to say, everyone involved is treating the reboot with the utmost care.
