MUFASA: THE LION KING Final Trailer And Poster Introduces Younger Versions Of All Your Favorite Characters

MUFASA: THE LION KING Final Trailer And Poster Introduces Younger Versions Of All Your Favorite Characters

With D23 Brazil in full swing, Disney has shared the final trailer and poster for Mufasa: The Lion King highlighting the likes of Mufasa, Scar, Sarabi, Rafiki and Zazu before they called Pride Rock home.

By JoshWilding - Nov 08, 2024 04:11 PM EST
Filed Under: Animated Features
Source: Toonado.com

Disney has just dropped the final trailer for Barry Jenkins' Mufasa: The Lion King (via Toonado.com) featuring younger versions of characters like Mufasa, Scar, Sarabi, Rafiki and Zazu before they called Pride Rock home.

Just like 2019's The Lion King, this movie looks visually stunning; the main difference here is that we're getting an original story rather than what many felt was little more than a shot-for-shot remake of the 1994 cartoon from filmmaker Jon Favreau. 

Similar to this summer's awesome Transformers One, it looks like we'll meet many familiar characters in their early years and watch as the friendship between Mufasa and Taka (a.k.a. Scar) crumbles and ends with them becoming bitter enemies. 

Exploring the unlikely rise of the beloved king of the Pride Lands, Mufasa: The Lion King enlists Rafiki to relay the legend of Mufasa to young lion cub Kiara, daughter of Simba and Nala, with Timon and Pumbaa lending their signature schtick. Told in flashbacks, the story introduces Mufasa as an orphaned cub, lost and alone until he meets a sympathetic lion named Taka - the heir to a royal bloodline.

The chance meeting sets in motion an expansive journey of an extraordinary group of misfits searching for their destiny - their bonds will be tested as they work together to evade a threatening and deadly foe. 

The movie stars Aaron Pierre (Mufasa), Kelvin Harrison Jr. (Taka/Scar), Tiffany Boone (Sarabi), Kagiso Lediga (Young Rafiki), Preston Nyman (Zazu), Mads Mikkelsen (Kiros), Thandiwe Newton (Eshe), Lennie James (Obasi), Anika Noni Rose (Afia), Keith David (Masego), John Kani (Rafiki), Seth Rogen (Pumbaa), Billy Eichner (Timon), Donald Glover (Simba), Blue Ivy Carter (Kiara), Braelyn Rankins (Young Mufasa), Theo Somolu (Young Taka), Folake Olowofoyeku, Joanna Jones, Thuso Mbedu, Sheila Atim, Abdul Salis, Dominique Jennings, and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter (Nala).

Blending live-action filmmaking techniques with photoreal computer-generated imagery, the all-new feature film is produced by Adele Romanski & Mark Ceryak, and executive produced by Peter Tobyansen.  

The Lion King made over $1.6 billion in 2019 so we'd imagine Disney has high hopes for this prequel. Whether the movie can reach the same heights in a post-COVID theatrical landscape is another matter, but we'll be shocked if it doesn't dominate the holidays. 

Mufasa: The Lion King opens in theaters worldwide on December 20.

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Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 11/8/2024, 4:26 PM
Of all? So Kang but younger is in this?
Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 11/8/2024, 4:29 PM
Wait ...so the bad guy is Kimba the White Lion? This makes sense.
J0RELLC00LJ
J0RELLC00LJ - 11/8/2024, 4:38 PM
@Malatrova15 - ...hoping for two of them to be named Siefried & Roy at least.
OriginalGusto1
OriginalGusto1 - 11/8/2024, 7:00 PM
@J0RELLC00LJ - HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You just won the interwebs!!!!!!!
RegularPoochie
RegularPoochie - 11/9/2024, 4:59 AM
@OriginalGusto1 - at least he won something, unlike our teams.
OriginalGusto1
OriginalGusto1 - 11/9/2024, 6:56 PM
@RegularPoochie - I'm a Lions fan.
OriginalGusto1
OriginalGusto1 - 11/9/2024, 6:57 PM
God be with us.
RegularPoochie
RegularPoochie - 11/9/2024, 11:45 PM
@OriginalGusto1 - noooo! Lucky
OriginalGusto1
OriginalGusto1 - 11/11/2024, 9:25 PM
@RegularPoochie - Yeah....lucky. See you in february.
HulkisHoly
HulkisHoly - 11/8/2024, 5:02 PM
Doesn’t look good. CGI doesn’t even look very real.
WEAPONXOXOXO
WEAPONXOXOXO - 11/8/2024, 5:11 PM
A movie about lions. But we never see them eat?
I'll wait for the Rated R version.

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RegularPoochie
RegularPoochie - 11/9/2024, 5:01 AM
@WEAPONXOXOXO - hold up, Snyder isn't the director, so that will not happen.

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