It ’s good to be Donald Glover . Coming off multiple prize for his show Atlanta , he ’s about to play Lando in the Han Solo flick and now he ’s joining another major Disney production . Jon Favreau just stray him as Simba inthe live - legal action interlingual rendition of The Lion King .
Favreau made the announcement with this simple Tweet .
I just ca n’t expect to be king.#Simbapic.twitter.com / wUYKixMBJI
— Jon Favreau ( @Jon_Favreau)February 18 , 2017
minuscule is know about Favreau ’s adaptation of The Lion King , other than it ’ll be done with the same technology and aesthetics as his “ unrecorded - action ” Jungle Book , which was totally filmed on a stage in Los Angeles . Also , it will make function of the iconic songs from the 1994 classic like “ Circle of Life , ” “ Hakuna Matata , ” and , like the tweet say , “ I Just Ca n’t Wait To Be King . ”
In those ways , The Lion King is the innate progression of the two most recent Disney live - action adaptations , Favreau ’s The Jungle Book and Bill Condon ’s forthcoming Beauty and the Beast . It ’ll use modern technology to wreak animals to life in a whole new way while also hold back the soul of its iconic animate original .
Though it is n’t confirmed , if Favreau mirrors his yield on Jungle Book , Glover will probably be only loan his voice to the movie , and perhaps doing some performance capture , but that would be limit . Also , though we see Simba at two ages in the original film , we do n’t know if this version will do that ( it probably will ) , or which eld / ages Glover would be playing ( we ’d think sr. , though ) .
With one piece of molding announced , we can expect more in the coming weeks and peradventure even a dismission engagement , which would almost certainly be sometime in 2019 .
When take for scuttlebutt , the real Simba only gave us this look .
Update : Minutes after annunciate Glover , Favreau append this .
Looking forward to working with this legend.#Mufasapic.twitter.com/1LszbWrcYT
James Earl Jones will once again dally Simba ’s begetter Mufasa , just like he did in the original celluloid .
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