A New Trailer For The Live Action ‘The Lion King’ Remake Is Here To Immediately Improve Your Day
The only downside is that it's no longer appropriate to say you find Scar hot.
The Lion King first hit theatres some 25 years ago. This is the part in the story where I’d usually give a little blurb to explain the film in question, but to be honest, if you don’t know anything about Disney’s The Lion King then you probably don’t have WiFi reception under your rock and thus won’t be reading this article anyway.
Indeed, The Lion King isn’t as much a film as it is a cultural institution. Over the last two and a half decades since its release, it’s spawned countless imitators, parodies, memes and licensed properties. For that reason, a live action remake of the film was about as inevitable as death or taxes — none of us had any way of escaping it.
Well, the wheels of time have rolled on, and the remake is some 100 days from release. To celebrate, Jon Favreau, the film’s director — and the man behind the recent live action adaptation of The Jungle Book — has dropped a brand new trailer.
As far as the internet is concerned, the biggest revelation is the design of classic villain Scar.
No longer a Jeremy Irons-voiced suave, Scar is now a regular, photorealistic lion, with a voice more broken glass and nails than Irons’ milk and honey meanness.
I don't like the new Lion King because now I can't be like I wanna fuck that lion
— Rebecca Bulnes (@AlmondMilkHotel) April 10, 2019
But hey, it’s still a real kick to see some of the iconic moments from the series rendered as though starring real animals. Who could turn down the opportunity to watch a photorealistic baboon paint the circle of life on a wall, or a bunch of hyenas stealthily and imposingly rally around their lion overlord, or a comic relief warthog and a neurotic meerkat strut through the savannah?
Nobody, that’s who, and that’s why The Lion King will make a billion dollars when it drops this July 18 in Australian cinemas.