Most of it was no fault of anyone - releasing a film in September 2020, month number six of the pandemic, was never going to offer the type of fanfare that Disney craves. Of all the Disney live-action remakes, 2020’s Mulan had the worst luck. But beyond that, The Lion King doesn’t even contain half of the magic of its original there’s something almost lifeless about the film and its CGI-heavy imagery, and at its worst, it feels, well, pointless. Besides the big-budget animation and realistic cats, the biggest win in Favreau’s The Lion King is the upgraded voice cast: With Donald Glover, Beyoncé, and Chiwetel Ejiofor all voicing lions of the African savannah, there’s a considerate effort to follow the Broadway adaptation and emphasize predominantly Black performers. Jon Favreau’s The Lion King is perhaps impressive on a technical level his CGI-aided remake of The Jungle Book offered a new way of rooting beloved stories in a more concrete, realistic fashion, and it makes sense that Disney would want him to recreate this strategy with an even more precious story. One of Disney’s finest Renaissance creations was 1994’s The Lion King, and in 2019, they released a photorealistic version of the same animated film.
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