The Lion King [DVD]

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Even though the setting is definitely Africa, there are some minor anomalies in the selection of animal species portrayed in the movie. In the "circle of life" sequence, leaf-cutter ants are seen crawling on a branch, even though leaf cutter ants are not only found in South America, they are endemic there. Also, Timon is a meerkat, and they are found in parts of Namibia and throughout South Africa, miles from Hell's Gate National Park where the main setting of the film is heavily modeled. Carmen Twillie (the female soloist for "Circle of Life" at the beginning) was Whoopi Goldberg's (Shenzi) singing double as the villainous Stormella from the Christmas movie Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie.

Video games: The Lion King • Timon and Pumbaa's Jungle Games • The Lion King: Simba's Mighty Adventure • Kingdom Hearts II • Animated Storybook: The Lion King • Disney Universe • Disney Infinity: 2.0 Edition • Adventures in Typing with Timon and Pumbaa • Activity Center • The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride: Active Play • The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride GameBreak • The Lion King 1½ • Disney Crossy Road • Disney Emoji Blitz • Disney Heroes: Battle Mode • Kingdom Hearts III • Disney Classic Games: Aladdin and The Lion King • Disney Classic Games Collection • The Lion King: Operation Pridelands Neuwirth, Allan. Makin' toons: inside the most popular animated TV shows and movies. Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. ISBN 978-1-58115-269-2. Rafiki's Bakora Staff • Great Lions of the Past • King of the Jungle • Musical • Lion Guard • Roar of the Elders • Night Pride • Mark of the Guard • Mark of the Night Pride • Moja Kwa Moja Stone • Tuliza • The Disney Afternoon • Find Out Why • House of Mouse • One by One • Timon & Pumbaa's Vacation Safari • As Told by EmojiTelevision: Find Out Why • Timon & Pumbaa ( videography) • Timon and Pumbaa's Wild About Safety • The Lion Guard ( videography) • It's UnBungalievable! The Lion King II: Simba's Pride: He Lives in You • We Are One • My Lullaby • Upendi • One of Us • Love Will Find a Way Toy Story (1995) • A Bug's Life (1998) • Toy Story 2 (1999) · Monsters, Inc. (2001) • Finding Nemo (2003) • The Incredibles (2004) • Cars (2006) • Ratatouille (2007) • WALL-E (2008) • Up (2009) • Toy Story 3 (2010) • Cars 2 (2011) • Brave (2012) • Monsters University (2013) • Inside Out (2015) • The Good Dinosaur (2015) • Finding Dory (2016) • Cars 3 (2017) • Coco (2017) • Incredibles 2 (2018) • Toy Story 4 (2019) • Onward (2020) • Soul (2020) • Luca (2021) • Turning Red (2022) • Lightyear (2022) • Elemental (2023) Season Three: " Battle for the Pride Lands" • " The Harmattan" • " The Accidental Avalanche" • " Ghost of the Mountain" • " Marsh of Mystery" • " Dragon Island" • " Journey of Memories" • " The Race to Tuliza" • " Mama Binturong" • " Friends to the End" • " The Tree of Life" • " The River of Patience" • " Little Old Ginterbong" • " Poa the Destroyer" • " Long Live the Queen" • " The Lake of Reflection" • " The Triumph of the Roar" • " Journey to the Pride Lands" • " Return to the Pride Lands" Season Two: " Babysitter Bunga" • " The Savannah Summit" • " The Traveling Baboon Show" • " Ono and the Egg" • " The Rise of Scar" • " Let Sleeping Crocs Lie" • " Swept Away" • " Rafiki's New Neighbors" • " Rescue in the Outlands" • " The Ukumbusho Tradition" • " The Bite of Kenge" • " Timon and Pumbaa's Christmas" • " The Morning Report" • " The Golden Zebra" • " The Little Guy" • " Divide and Conquer" • " The Scorpion's Sting" • " The Wisdom of Kongwe" • " The Kilio Valley Fire" • " Undercover Kinyonga" • " Cave of Secrets" • " The Zebra Mastermind" • " The Hyena Resistance" • " The Underground Adventure" • " Beshte and the Beast" • " Pride Landers Unite!" • " The Queen's Visit" • " The Fall of Mizimu Grove" • " Fire from the Sky"

This is the first Disney film whose title not only is near or at the beginning of the movie but at the end (before the credits), more being Tarzan, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Brother Bear, and Raya and the Last Dragon. The idea for The Lion King was conceived in late 1988 during a conversation between Jeffrey Katzenberg, Roy E. Disney, and Peter Schneider on a plane to Europe to promote Oliver & Company. During the conversation, the topic of a story set in Africa came up, and Katzenberg immediately jumped at the idea. [2] Producer Thomas Schumacher, who had just completed The Rescuers Down Under, decided to attach himself to the project "because lions are cool". The idea was then developed by Walt Disney Feature Animation's vice president for creative affairs Charlie Fink. [3] Katzenberg decided to add elements involving coming of age and death, [4] and ideas from personal life experiences, such as some of his trials in his bumpy road in politics, saying about the film, "It is a little bit about myself." [4] In November of that year Thomas Disch (author of The Brave Little Toaster) wrote a treatment entitled King of the Kalahari, [5] and afterwards Linda Woolverton spent a year writing drafts of the script, which was titled King of the Beasts and then King of the Jungle. [3] The original version of the film was very different from the final film. The plot was centered in a battle being between lions and baboons with Scar being the leader of the baboons, Rafiki being a cheetah, [4] and Timon and Pumbaa being Simba's childhood friends. [6] Simba would also not leave the kingdom, but become a "lazy, slovenly, horrible character" due to manipulations from Scar, so Simba could be overthrown after coming of age. [3] Allers, Roger; Hahn, Don, and Minkoff, Rob ( 1995). Laserdisc/DVD audio commentary for The Lion King. Walt Disney Home Entertainment Films: The Lion King ( video) • The Lion King II: Simba's Pride ( video) • The Lion King 1½ ( video) • The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar • The Lion King (2019) ( video) • Mufasa: The Lion KingThe development of The Lion King started concurrently with Pocahontas, which most of the animators of Walt Disney Feature Animation decided to work on instead, believing it would be the more prestigious and successful of the two. [9] The story artists also did not have much faith in the project, with Brenda Chapman declaring she was reluctant to accept the job " because the story wasn't very good", [3] and writer Burny Mattinson saying to co-worker Joe Ranft about the film that " I don't know who is going to want to watch that one." [8] Most of the leading animators were either doing their first major work supervising a character, or had much interest in animating an animal. [4] Thirteen of these supervising animators, both in California and Florida, were responsible for establishing the personalities and setting the tone for the film's main characters. The animation leads for the main characters included Mark Henn on young Simba, Ruben A. Aquino on adult Simba, Andreas Deja on Scar, Aaron Blaise on young Nala, Anthony DeRosa on adult Nala, and Tony Fucile on Mufasa. Nearly 20 minutes of the film, including the " I Just Can't Wait to Be King" sequence, [6] were animated at the Disney-MGM Studios facility. Ultimately, more than 600 artists, animators, and technicians contributed to The Lion King over the course of its production. Weeks before the film was to be released, production was affected by the 1994 Northridge earthquake, which shut off the studio and required the animators to finish their work from home. [11] Rhythm of the Pride Lands: The Lion Sleeps Tonight • Kube • Lea Halalela • It's Time • Lala • Busa • Noyana Jeremy Irons and Ernie Sabella both share the same birthday: September 19; Sabella was born on Irons's first birthday. With Scar and the hyenas gone, and with the rightful king in place, the Pride Lands are restored which is turning green with life again. The film concludes with Rafiki presenting Simba and Nala's newborn cub into the air, thus continuing the Circle of Life.

Although this movie is rated G by the MPAA, it received a TV-PG rating on most TV channels for the violent content, especially the scene where Mufasa dies. In Mouse Hunt, Nathan Lane's character Ernie Smuntz says Hakuna Matata to one of the auctioneers, a reference to Timon in the Lion King.

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The Lion King: Circle of Life • The Morning Report • I Just Can't Wait to Be King • Be Prepared • Hakuna Matata • Can You Feel the Love Tonight • Hawaiian War Chant Deleted: To Be King • Warthog Rhapsody • The Lion of the Moon • Old Fearless Buzz • The Madness of King Scar • Where Do I Belong Season Two: " Palm Beached/ Jamaica Mistake?" • " Oregon Astray/ New Guinea Pig" • " Isle of Manhood/ Puttin' on the Brits" • " Klondike Con/ Isle Find Out" • " Beetle Romania/ Rumble in the Jungle" • " Wide Awake in Wonderland/ Zazu's Off-by-One Day" • " Animal Barn/ Roach Hotel" • " Africa-Dabra!/ I Don't Bolivia" • " Shopping Mauled/ Library Brouhaha" • " Catch Me if You Kenya/ Scent of the South" • " Monster Massachusetts/ Handle with Caribbean" • " Forbidden Pumbaa/ Washington Applesauce" • " Alcatraz Mataz/ Oahu Wahoo" • " I Think I Canada/ Zazu's Off Day Off" • " Beast of Eden/ Sense & Senegambia" • " Timon on the Range/ The Man from J.U.N.G.L.E." • " Maine-Iacs/ Fiji-Fi-Fo-Fum" • " Rome Alone/ Amusement Bark" • " Once Upon a Timon" • " Home is Where the Hog Is" • " Bumble in the Jungle Plus: Beethoven's Whiff!/ Mind Over Matterhorn" Several lionesses with the same type of fur coloring as Nala appear when they battle for the last time. The film became available on Digital HD August 15, 2017, and on Blu-ray/DVD August 29, 2017. It later got a 4K Ultra HD release on December 4, 2018.

This is the only Disney animated feature from the 'Disney Renaissance' era to have absolutely no humans in the movie. In fact, The Lion King is the first (and third overall) film in the Disney Animated Canon to have an entirely non-human cast since Robin Hood in 1973. http://deadline.com/2016/12/national-film-registry-2016-list-thelma-louise-princess-bride-lion-king-1201870406/ Musical: Lioness Hunt • Rafiki Mourns • One by One • Grasslands Chant • Chow Down • The Madness of King Scar • Shadowland • Endless Night • Simba Confronts Scar The film would currently be the 19th highest-grossing animated film of all time worldwide if it had never been re-released.

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The Lion King: Simba • Nala • Mufasa • Scar • Rafiki • Timon • Pumbaa • Zazu • Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed • Sarabi • Sarafina • The Pridelanders • Pride Land Animals • Hyena Clan • Wildebeests • Gopher • Vultures • Grubs The Lion King was the first-ever feature film to be translated to European Portuguese and the first Disney film to be dubbed in Zulu. There is a considerable controversy of plagiarism of the 1965 Japanese animation "Kimba the White Lion" in regard to similar plots, character design and personalities, animation sequences, and other examples. However, in recent events, the plagiarism accusations were debunked, mainly because Disney claimed they had no knowledge of Kimba and that it was all a coincidence. Books: Marvel Comics • The Art and Making of The Lion King • The Lion Guard: Can't Wait to be Queen • The Lion King: The Novelization • The Lion King: The Full Film Script Also sharing another birthday are Tim Rice (the lyricist) and Niketa Calame-Harris (the speaking voice of Young Nala): November 10th. Calame had been born on Rice's 36th birthday.