Disney is returning to Pride Rock. For, the much murmured about prequel to ‘The Lion King’ has officially been announced.
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The news broke during the action-packed Disney Investor Day.
Confirming the information relayed in our earlier report, the studio shared that ‘Moonlight’ director Barry Jenkins is on-board as director, as is Hans Zimmer who returns to cultivate the score.
Pharrell Williams, who contributed musically to the 2019 live-action incarnation of the classic, is also back in a similar capacity.
Last year’s re-imagining of the famed tale, which starred Donald Glover and Beyonce, was a blockbuster success – drumming up over $1 Billion at the global box office.
It also spawned Queen Bey’s spin-off visual album ‘Black Is King’ – which arrived to critical acclaim on Disney+ this summer.
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The news has us elated here at TGJ. Especially as internally we’ve long discussed the massive potential embedded in a ‘Lion King’ prequel.
In many ways, last year’s note-for-note remake served as a sound foundation to refresh, remind, and re-engage the audience with the core story while establishing firm foundation to tell an original narrative.
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“Pharrell tapped for music”
😂😂
They saw how the gift flopped hard so they dumped beyonce immediately
Pharrell produce 2 songs on that “flop album” tho? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Okay ..and?
Too bad Beyonce couldn’t make it a hit.
😂😂😂
U really thought u did something did u
U drag urself.
Set urself up
❤the move and The Gift is/was great album. Congratulations on it (song/songs) awards and Grammy nods!
Say what you want, our Black queens are winning and making great moves!
Awesome! Love the Lion King! I am so excited to see the prequel!!
They want a HAPPY not another spirit. We’ll see what Pharrell can do up front again
Thank goodness no more spirit trash
The first one was hype, but was meh for me. Dont need to have a second one