The Lion King (1994) is an animated adventure/drama movie produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney pictures. The movie is directed by Rogers Allers and Rob Minkoff. The Lion King (1994) characters are voiced by actors James Earl Jones (Mufasa), Jeremy Irons (Scar), Jonathan Taylor Thomas (Young Simba), Matthew Broderick (Adult Simba), Moira Kelly (Adult Nala), Ernie Sabella (Pumbaa), Nathan Lane (Timon), and Rowan Atkinson (Zazu).
The Lion King (1994) tells the story of a young lion Simba. When Simba’s uncle Scar murders his father and King Mufasa, Simba is manipulated into thinking he was responsible and flees into exile in shame and despair. Upon maturation living with two wastrels, Simba is given some valuable perspective from his childhood friend, Nala, and his shaman, Rafiki, before returning to challenge Scar to end his tyranny.
The Lion King (1994) was released on 15th June, 1994 in USA. The movie earned $1 Billion worldwide in its theatrical run. It also won 2 Academy Awards (Oscars) for Best Original Song and Best Original Score. Today I have put together a list of Interesting facts and details about epic movie The Lion King (1994). Let’s have a look..
16. Actors Jeremy Irons (Scar) and Whoopi Goldberg (Shenzi) both won acting Oscars in the same year for their roles in Reversal of Fortune (1990) and Ghost (1990) respectively.
- Scar and Shenzi
15. The team working on The Lion King (1994) was supposedly Disney's "team B", who were "kept busy" while "team A" worked on Pocahontas (1995), on which the production had much higher hopes.
- Pocahontas poster
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14. Near the start of the film Lion Mufasa asks villain Scar if he is going to challenge him. In real life lions actually fight one another for right to be leader of the pack with the loser backing down.
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13. In early drafts, villain Scar was a rogue lion with no relation to Lion Mufasa. Eventually, however, the story writers thought relating him to Mufasa would be more interesting, a threat within.
- Villain Scar
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12. Several Disney animators went to Africa to study animal behavior and interaction in the wild. A grown lion and a cub were also brought into the animation studio as models for anatomy and musculature.
- Mufasa and Samba
11. Until 2013 The Lion King (1994) held the record for being the highest grossing animated film in history, until it was surpassed by Frozen (2013), another Disney Movie.
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10. The Lion King (1994) is one of three Disney movies to win a Golden Globe for Best Picture. The other two are Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Toy Story 2 (1999) (all three were in the category "Comedy or Musical"). This is no longer possible due to rule changes at Golden Globes.
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