THE LION KING: Simba Squares Off Against His Uncle Scar In A Thrilling New Extended TV Spot

THE LION KING: Simba Squares Off Against His Uncle Scar In A Thrilling New Extended TV Spot

During the first half of the FIFA Women's World Cup Final earlier today, Walt Disney released another thrilling extended TV spot for Jon Favreau's highly-anticipated live-action remake of The Lion King.

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By RohanPatel - Jul 07, 2019 10:07 AM EST
Filed Under: Disney
Source: Walt Disney Studios
Walt Disney Studios has shared a new extended TV spot for Jon Favreau's The Lion King, offering a fresh look at some never-before-seen footage of adult Simba (Donald Glover) embracing his destiny and finally building up the courage to confront his evil uncle Scar (Chiwetel Ejiofor), which, of course, will lead to a fiery final battle. 

The wait is nearly over, as the highly-anticipated blockbuster hits theaters July 19th, and features the voice talents of Donald Glover, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, John Oliver, Seth Rogen, Billy Eichner, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Alfre Woodard, Eric André, Florence Kasumba, Keegan-Michael Key, Shahadi Wright Joseph, and JD McCrary. 


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Director Jon Favreau’s all-new “The Lion King” journeys to the African savanna where a future king is born. Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub’s arrival. Scar, Mufasa’s brother—and former heir to the throne—has plans of his own. The battle for Pride Rock is ravaged with betrayal, tragedy and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba’s exile. With help from a curious pair of newfound friends, Simba will have to figure out how to grow up and take back what is rightfully his. The all-star cast includes Donald Glover as Simba, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter as Nala, James Earl Jones as Mufasa, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Scar, Seth Rogen as Pumbaa and Billy Eichner as Timon. Utilizing pioneering filmmaking techniques to bring treasured characters to life in a whole new way, Disney’s “The Lion King” roars into theaters on July 19, 2019.


The Lion King features:
Director: Jon Favreau
Donald Glover as Simba
Beyoncé as Nala
James Earl Jones as Mufasa
Chiwetel Ejiofor as Scar
Alfre Woodard as Sarabi
John Oliver as Zazu
John Kani as Rafiki
Billy Eichner as Timon
Seth Rogen as Pumbaa
Florence Kasumba as Shenzi
Keegan-Michael Key as Kamari
Eric Andre as Azizi
Amy Sedaris in an undisclosed role
JD McCrary as young Simba
Shahadi Wright-Joseph as young Nala

The Lion King roars into theaters July 19
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MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 7/7/2019, 11:11 AM
I'm not going to lie, I just don't see the appeal in this, but I'll give it a shot nonetheless. The audio doesn't look to be in harmony with the lion's mouth movement or maybe it just looks unnatural.

I'm intrigued to see timon and pumbaa the most.
solargeknowles
solargeknowles - 7/7/2019, 11:23 AM
@MyCoolYoung - To give it the benefit of a doubt, I think some of the fast editing necessary for a trailer/tv spot hinders it, maybe in context of the film, it'll be much better. But I was never excited for this movie like I was for The Jungle Book, because you do have a real human being in the movie. The Lion King is all animals, so the expressions and emotions won't be fully realized on the cgi animals.

What a mess. I will be shocked if the film gets good reviews. I stan for Beyonce, but isn't a good voice actor or actor in general.
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 7/7/2019, 11:49 AM
@solargeknowles - I agree. She's pretty meh as an actress. I think the movie is akin to watching animals on the discovery Channel and the charm from the animated series seems to be missing, but people said that about Aladdin and I did enjoy that.

I'll give the film the benefit of the doubt through and through and I'll watch and decide for myself.
bcom
bcom - 7/7/2019, 2:22 PM
@MyCoolYoung - It's the one thing I've noticed so far about the trailers, they haven't really shown any close up shots of the animals talking or emoting. That's the one thing I'm most curious about seeing in this movie... they're going for ultra realistic looking animals that talk and sing. It'll be interesting to see how they meld that together without it looking odd. Jon did a good job with that in The Jungle Book, but the animals were slightly more stylistic, The Lion King looks to be a step up in terms of photo realism.
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 7/7/2019, 5:20 PM
@bcom - they did take a step up in realism and I don't know why. I would've thought the roles were reversed. Jungle book could've went to that and lion king more stylistic, but as you said they've yet to show the animals so hopefully it's a big reveal
WarAdmiral51
WarAdmiral51 - 7/7/2019, 11:45 AM
This looks really good. I don't get the hate for 'live action remakes'. It's just a different iteration of the original source. The greatest stories, legends, and myths have been told, re-told, and put into different iterations through history. It's nothing new.

Do people boycott the Lion King broadway play simply because it's not the animated film? No of course not. It's just a different iteration. Same with this film and with all the different remakes.

Brave
Brave - 7/7/2019, 12:07 PM
I always knew that how different the live action Lion King would be from the original would come down to how they do Scar (as he's the driving force of the story). It seems like this Scar is much more of a Thanos rather than a Loki like the original was. Sure you lose a lot of that devilish lovable charm of Jeremy Irons, but there might be something special in its place with Chiwetel Ejiofor's new take.
bcom
bcom - 7/7/2019, 5:44 PM
@Brave - Since they brought back James Earl Jones (well, no one else can match that voice) it would've been cool if they also bought back Jeremy Irons. I have no doubt that Chiwetel will do a good job, but Jeremy Irons was as iconic as Scar as James Earl Jones was a Mufasa.
GoldGuy
GoldGuy - 7/7/2019, 2:37 PM
I totally get the complaints that the faces don't show the same emotion that the animated version did. It's a legit concern.

That said, anyone who thinks the CGI is anything less than super impressive is obviously biased. The animals look as close to being real as is humanly possible right now.
ganganor
ganganor - 7/7/2019, 10:41 PM
It's probably the fact that I'm used to Jeremy irons, but chiwetels voice is too high pitched for an evil character like scar. Doesn't sound scary or anything to be taken seriously, especially when he shouts. He's a great actor, but in terms of voice acting for this character, these are pretty big shoes to fill.


They obviously chose to take this character to a different place and rightly so, but we need to wait and see if it worked...
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