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Jon Favreau discusses The Lion King and The Jungle Book 2

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Having successfully adapted The Jungle Book to live-action earlier this year, Jon Favreau was subsequently announced as helming an adaptation of another animated Disney classic The Lion King, adding a second project to his slate after the planned sequel to The Jungle Book.Speaking to Collider, Favreau has revealed that he intends on shooting both projects […]

Jeff Nathanson to pen Disney’s The Lion King remake

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Last month it was announced that The Jungle Book helmer Jon Favreau has signed on to direct a live-action (well, CG) remake of The Lion King, and now Disney has found itself a screenwriter for the project.According to Variety, Jeff Nathanson will write the remake of the 1994 animated classic, having recently penned the script […]

All upcoming live-action Disney remakes

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Luke Owen looks to the future of Disney’s live-action output…Following the announcement of a live-action version of The Lion King [read my thoughts on that here], I thought we should collate together all the information we have on Disney’s other upcoming live-action adaptations. To date, there are a whopping seventeen of these in development, but all are […]

Why is everyone so upset about the live-action Lion King remake?

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Luke Owen looks at the backlash to Disney’s live-action Lion King remake…Since Tim Burton re-imagined Alice in Wonderland in a live-action format in 2010 to an incredible box office return (the film earned over $1 billion), Disney have their new mission statement: re-telling animated classics for a new generation in live-action. This success continued with 2014’s Maleficent […]

Flickering Myth’s Formative Movie Experiences

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Sean Wilson asks his fellow Flickering Myth writers about the film experiences that shaped their childhoods… I was more than a little startled when hit with the recent revelation that nineties family classic Free Willy this year passed its 22nd birthday. It’s not a lengthy period in the grand scheme of things but for me […]