Mufasa: The Lion King | December 20, 2024 | Barry Jenkins | Prequel to Favreau's CGI Version

[emoviefan]

My anticipation  for this trailer is about the complete opposite what it was for last  monday's trailer for a Disney movie.

[filmlover]

This and (one has to assume) a green band version of the Deadpool & Wolverine trailer are obviously Disney's trailer attachments with Planet of the Apes.

[Flopped]

That still image is a howler. Disney is truly in the gutter. 

[Cmasterclay]

Feel like this is going to be better quality wise and box office wise than the "Alice in Wonderland 2 level catastrophe" predictions everyone is rolling with.

[WittyUsername]

“This looks like A.I.” is basically just a fancy new way of saying that something looks like crap. 
 

Anyway, my expectations are pretty low here. I have a bit more faith with this than I do with the 2019 film, simply because Barry Jenkins is mo Jon Favreau, but I’m still expecting a safe cookie cutter Disney product. 

Edited April 29 by WittyUsername

[MysteryMovieMogul]

2 minutes ago, Cmasterclay said:

Feel like this is going to be better quality wise and box office wise than the "Alice in Wonderland 2 level catastrophe" predictions everyone is rolling with.

The Twittersphere is definitely setting this film up for surprise "success" ^{depending on the actual quality of the film, of course}. There's no way it'll be as bad as Alice in Wonderland 2. For one, James Bobin is not a good director. 

[Eric the IF]

10 hours ago, Reddroast said:

I'll quote a buddy on discord: this looks like AI art. In a bad way

 

We as a culture need to stop this “it looks/feels like it was made by AI” snark

[grim22]

19 minutes ago, Eric Duncan said:

We as a culture need to stop this “it looks/feels like it was made by AI” snark

It's shorthand for "it looks/sounds like shit" and sets a baseline for AI just by the virtue of making people say it's awful.

[Eric the IF]

4 minutes ago, grim22 said:

It's shorthand for "it looks/sounds like shit" and sets a baseline for AI just by the virtue of making people say it's awful.

I get that. But even the worst movies out there have more creativity and imagination than the best AI could offer, and is still a slap in the face to the talented people oftentimes stuck in bad projects.

[SpiderByte]

 

Surprised they only now talked about Lin Manuel Miranda and not at Cinemacon 

 

 

Edited April 29 by SpiderByte

[filmlover]

Voice cast revealed:

 

- Aaron Pierre as Mufasa

- Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Taka, a lion prince with a bright future who accepts Mufasa into his family as a brother

- Tiffany Boone as Sarabi

- Kagiso Lediga as Young Rafiki

- Preston Nyman as Zazu

- Mads Mikkelsen as Kiros, a formidable lion with big plans for his pride

- Thandiwe Newton as Taka’s mother, Eshe

- Lennie James as Taka’s father, Obasi

- Anika Noni Rose as Mufasa’s mother, Afia

- Keith David as Mufasa’s father, Masego

- John Kani as Rafiki

- Seth Rogen as Pumbaa

- Billy Eichner as Timon

- Donald Glover as Simba

- Introducing Blue Ivy Carter as Kiara, daughter of King Simba and Queen Nala

- And Beyoncé Knowles-Carter as Nala

Edited April 29 by filmlover

[YM!]

I do find it funny Disney will pay for actual songwriters for their remakes and not their animated movies these past few years.

[YM!]

Anyways, Sonic 3 will be beating this but I don’t think the fall will be Alice/Marvels level, probably something more like Aquaman 2. I imagine women and the older folks will flock to this one over Sonic and even an Alice2/Marvels drop OW gets this around 45-55m OW. So I’ll say 50m/225m.

[Youngstar]

Never saw the 2019 remake(might watch it before this one comes out), but I'm immediatly more interested because it's an original story.

[SaltyPistola]

The Lin Manuel Miranda potential is huge... makes sense why he isn't on Moana 2 now. If this gets an even remotely good critical reception this is an easy 800mil - to a Bil grosser. 

[vale9001]

meh

 

 if they have to sell out why at this point not with animated sequels like they did with frozen, oceania, zootopia etc.. Would feel more eventful.

[SaltyPistola]

2 minutes ago, vale9001 said:

meh

 

 if they have to sell out why at this point not with animated sequels like they did with frozen, oceania, zootopia etc.. Would feel more eventful.

Oceania? You mean Moana?

[Borobudur]

How did VFX in this one look like a downgrade from 2016 TJB and 2019 TLK.

[Minnale101]

Ouuu wow they got Beyoncé daughter I guess for ending where they show the future 

 

I’m gonna guess taka ends up dying 

[SaltyPistola]

1 minute ago, Borobudur said:

How did VFX in this one look like a downgrade from 2016 TJB and 2019 TLK.

- Smaller budget probably

- Effects aren't quite done 

- Director has far less experience working with this much CGI