The first official trailer for the prequel Mufasa: The Lion King, directed by Barry Jenkins, has arrived: the Disney film will be in theaters at Christmas.
It will be in cinemas at Christmas 2024, but finally Mufasa: The Lion King shows itself with a first official trailer: the expected prequel of the story of the Lion King, set as the 2019 remake, is directed by Barry Jenkins and it is a coming-of-age novel about Simba’s father, Mufasa, a character who is still a character here cub and it has nothing of the nobility that it embodied in the events we all know. The film will be released in our cinemas in Christmas.
Mufasa: The Lion King, the prequel to the remake by Barry Jenkins
It’s still Jeff Nathanson to sign the screenplay of this retelling”for real” (actually in Photorealistic CGI) of the world of Lion King. Mufasa: The Lion King is a prequel directed by Barry Jenkinswinner of the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay by Moonlightin 2017. The brand of Lion King it is one of the most profitable and prestigious for the Disney: already the first freehand 2D classic The Lion King of the Walt Disney Animation Studiosreleased in 1994, won two Oscars (for the music of Hans Zimmer and the song “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” by Tim Rice and Elton John). It took home 763,455,600 dollars for a cost of 45 million (source Boxofficemojo)… and we are only talking about the first edition, because the film has returned to cinemas several times over the decades, always with renewed success. This success generated another phenomenon, the remake The Lion King of 2019, a monster gross of 1,663,080,000 dollars collected worldwide for a very high budget of 260 million (source Deadline). Of all the Disney revivals of recent years, the world of the Lion King has overcome many perplexities related to these operations. Mufasa: The Lion Kingwhich aims to tell how the Simba’s dad he was also a puppy looking for identitywill it be able to repeat the staggering figures of the works that preceded it… and which it narratively precedes?
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