Drinker's Chasers - Mufasa Trailer Gets Absolutely Savaged
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- You know your trailer hasn't been well received when it gets ratiod into oblivion and you have to disable comments on it entirely. Such is the case with Disney's Mufasa - the movie nobody asked for.
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Of course Disney locked the comments… that would have been more entertaining than the movie itself.
Solid comment.
Still shocked they left the comments open for The Acolyte trailer. 😅
@@Ou_phrontis It’s because Disney has no faith with that show. Lion King made billions for them and they don’t want to risk their current cashcow fumbled from general audiences seeing this trailer. Word of mouth plays a part
They CANNOT handle criticism, let alone even *listen* to the fans.
@@jwroot They don't 'allow' criticism FIFY
"Without a drop of nobility in his blood" said Hollywood with all its rich "not-noble" families and nepotism.
Good point lol
There are blood ties between most executives, financiers, world leaders, and top-eschelon government leadership. Have been for centuries, at the least.
"It's not elites ruining it for all of you. It's fellow serfs!"
And also completely ruining Mufasa's character.
Including the actress playing Simba's daughter, who's making her film debut and is, by complete coincidence, Beyonce and Jay-Z's daughter.
@@robertbeisert3315 Adam Sandler even made a song about it.
OH WOW NO ONE ASKED FOR IT, and no one wanted it; which are the ONLY two criteria DISNEY needs to make anything nowadays. "is there a market? NO? PERFECT. Are we going to destroy a small animation studio and ruin a thousand or more people's jobs and futures? YES? Even more incentive."
With all due respect, but it will problably make money too
I think you forgot a third criteria that is the most important: it had to be popular at one point and in their minds come with a built in audience.
@@SubZero-hs9xcwith all due respect Disney lost money on nearly every movie it released over the past few years.
Wrong. The only criteria Disney needs to make a movie is that it belongs to a franchise that has made money. They will keep doing that until the franchise is no longer profitable.
Audience: Don't remake X, it's a bad idea.
Disney: Hold my blue milk.
Around the point when people realized that these "re-imaginings" and "spiritual successors" were specifically meant to *tear down* the things they feel nostalgia for?
People stopped wanting them.
Bingo!
Then why do we still get mocked, shamed, belittled, and gaslit for pointing it out?
@@zombifiedpariah7392Literally everyone agrees that this look bad ur not in the minority
@@rl8259 I never said I was in the minority. Thank you for proving my point.
@@zombifiedpariah7392 How I’m defending you everyone thinks this looks bad
"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.” Tyrion Lannister.
... What has this to do anything?
That is not a GoT quote, historical figure stated it, GoT used it.
@@SubZero-hs9xc blocked comments perhaps?
@@SubZero-hs9xcdense
@@sgm2463 No one is more Hated than He who speaks the truth- Plato.
Literally the whole point of the story is that Simba has to fill the shoes of his ancestors. A long lineage of Lion Kings. Disney is so fkn stupid.
Exactly. They're so stupid they broke the circle of life.
If Mufasa turned out to be 2D animated like the good ol' days, we probably would've been hooked. But nah, they went with the live action route.😐
@@liamphibia Well, it's still animated... only, soulless.
oh ya good point. I didn't even connect the dot on that originally. I was more focused on the design style and just how absurd they are for doubling down on that when no one liked it. But thats a key plot point also. They went from Mufasa being a noble king that supposedly came from a line of respectable leaders. To rando nobody that became a king? Seems like a weird alteration.
@@robosoldier11 Yeah, if he had some significant ascension story like that, it would have been mentioned in the Lion King, no? I mean, that would be important stuff to tell your son, the future king about.
6:01, the CGI remake got criticized because the characters showed LESS expression than an actual cat. Lions in wildlife documentaries are more expressive than that.
I wondered what was so triggering about it. I haven't seen any of the live action remakes because I agree with Drinker on this: they aren't different stories, they just have a different look. But when I saw the trailer, I thought, Seth Rogan's name really cannot be the big problem here. Showing less expression than an actual cat is a problem though. If kids would just rather watch an Animal Kingdom documentary rather than a Disney production, Disney is probably on the wrong track. On the other hand, it would be nice if this is the only problem with this movie. Bad graphics is, sadly, the least of Disney's problems.
Ever heard of “Tales of the Riverbank” (the original BBC presentation)?
But I guess using that same story technique would result in lion dinner time.
The thing is that cats can be expressive with their faces and entire body language... but their muzzles and muscles around the eyes aren't made to express complex human emotion, nor their mouth to move to speak human language (I know it sounds crazy, right?).
But I'm very much looking forward to Disney's CG remake of Bambi, since deer and rabbits instead are notorious for how expressively human they look.
Let me guess. In this movie, Mustafa dabbles in polyamory and relationships with other species. Scar is actually gay and a spurned lover. Mustafa was actually mean, abusive and patriarchal and all the female lionesses hated him.
Mufasa and Scar are brothers, so Disney just may make them, er, curious about each other 🤢🤮
....
Someone said that the movie will reveal that actually Scar was the royal lion and Mufasa the orfan Scar's family adopt and the one that stole the reign from him, but I couldnt tell if this is true or not. Wouldnt be surprise if it is tho
@@taz3810 LOL the reverse of what the Khazars have done, it's their wet dream.
Actually, I've heard rumors Scar will be gay.....
This is being made to blame Mufasa for Scar's anger, I'm pretty sure. To teach everyone a lesson in moral equivalency.
My first thought was they're gonna make Scar sympathetic too
Of course they will. But the issue actually started way back when the original drawn version was released; Scar is the one with a black mane, which usually symbolises the dominant male of the hierarchy and is more attractive to the females than any other mane color. So it will be easy picking for them to skew this new movie in a way were Scar would have been the ruler by true right but Mufasa stole it from him.
I’m pretty sure they already gave Scar a sympathetic backstory before all this cash grabbing live action crap. I also think Mufasa was literally the only one who treated Scar with respect, but they’re still gonna make him the asshole anyways.
Disney likes to turn villains into heroes lately, as if to teach everyone that nothing is wrong.
@@cosmicspacething3474 it is a terrible idea that reality isn't black and white, that people aren't good or evil... how could anyone think of such an evil idea???
As the most popular writer of his era, I’m really surprised that Shakespeare turned down the opportunity for the prequel to Hamlet. Thank goodness Disney is here to come in and pick up the slack.
Hamlet 2 has been done. It's great.
Always amused me that Shakespeare was writing the "popular" entertainment of his time. The Globe Theater wasn't for the aristocracy, but for the masses - Which means that, if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be writing episodes of _Everybody Loves Raymond..._
@@trashfire9641Hamlet 2: In Love with Laert is sure to be a box office hit.
Peter Dinklage plays Ophelia.
Well, a couple of centuries later the much-needed spin-off on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern was written. 😆
The main difference is that today it would have been taken at face value and stretched over 4 seasons.
It would be great if we got a movie where, even as a cub, Mufasa is still voiced by James Earl Jones. And not a single character questions it.
He's retired, thank God. (Of course, he let Disney sample his voice for an AI model, so he can still technically play Mufasa and Darth Vader in perpetuity.)
@@gelchertHis Vador voice is perfect.
It's an example of why race shouldn't matter for voice acting roles.
Get that bass out your voice! Mufasa’s father, perhaps.
Mufasa in The Lion King speaking to Simba about ruling everything the light touches; like your father, and father's father, and his father before him
The narrator in the Mufasa trailer: *HE HAD NO ROYAL BLOODLINE AND CAME FROM NOTHING LIKE A TRUE REVOLUTIONARY
And somehow Pumbaa and Timon are in it. Do they know Mufasa somehow?
@@justinm2697 No, it is a frame story. Timon and Pumba are the ones helping to tell the story to Simba and Nala's kid.
He’s adopted apparently
@@D_Boone but that doesn't make sense either. How could they help tell the story of someone they don't know and never met?
Gotta get that Chinese money somehow.
First Narnia movie had a realistic very expressive lion (Aslan) in 2005. Somehow, early 2000's GGI is better than what we have now
Why are they trying to rewrite the history of Mufasa? He was royalty, and his brother is Scar. I’d rather see Sonic 3 than this revisionist trash.
I wanna see Sonic 3. 1 and 2 aren't excellent, but they are fun and insufficiently inappropriate to prevent me showing my kids.
They can't have strong, proud characters who come from strong proud backgrounds
Hear hear.
Marxism. The nobility and simple people should hate each other, otherwise how would the society weaken enough, so that Marxists can grab the power?
IMO "Scar" makes a way more compelling film.
The first problem with the Mufasa prequel: Making a movie that NO ONE asked for. 💯😂🎉
But no one asked for the Lion King remake either, but that made like $1.5B... Are the people complaining they don't like the 'photo-realistic' CGI the same ones that made The Lion King a huge hit?
@@StreetPreacherryeah people really should look in
Scar : Mufasa- I am your father,
Mufasa: No! No! It can't be, that's impossible!
Scar: Seek your feelings. You know it to be the truth. My Father was gone and I was only one of age and mother was in heat.
Mufasa: NO!
@StreetPreacherr making money is incidental, clearly. Nothing that has happened in the past decade or so makes sense in light of the greed hypothesis.
Only the evil hypothesis - they do it to destroy good things, spread lies, and suppress human spirit - fits all the phenomena.
If Mufasa was 2D animated instead, many of us would have been stuck admittedly. But nah. Live action/Animation CGI yaaaaaay.
My inside source told me that the movie ends with Sarabi baby-trapping Mufasa. Then he says "shit, I guess I better become the Lion King".
"you wanna know how I got this *Scar*?"
😂😂😂 This line would be the Faceplam awards winner back to back 2 years in a row
Nice lol
i'm da joka baby
Why does every remake seem to be about angst? They just aren't the happy films of before.
Disney lost something. #1 is respect for the customers.
We don't want remakes. Nor endless sequels.
Personally, I don't mind well-made remakes, if they're a 'side-dish' between new, original stuff. But not only do the 80s and 90s era movies not need a remake (they're animation, ffs, and good animation at that, apart from making them HD or whatever so they are up to date technologically, leave them alone), everything the Disney remake machine touches goes to absolute shit.
They can’t make happy movies because they aren’t happy people.
To give you some perspective, the comments section for the Acolyte is still up. Either Disney is desperate to save Mufasa, or they’ve given up completely on Star Wars, or a little of both.
They are GLORIOUS.
This trailer took off faster than Tito and Jermaine Jackson's careers.
If we’re to be fair, Jermaine had a FEW hits. Moreso than Mufasa probably will. 😅
Come on. Jermaine did okay. But his siblings were Michael and Janet so it easy for some to overlook him.
Stop giving money to Disney... I'm talking to you, Deadpool looking forward tooers!!! - Watch it in Tortuga!
Couldn't agree more. People are outraged at Disney and then say "well Deadpool looks ok, I'll see it". Fork Awf!! HOW can people spend money on anything from Disney? Do people serious have no shame? F Disney, I'll never give them any money after they destroyed Star Wars.
How else will you get Disney to change if you don’t support the few good things they do make so that they make more of that. Guessing you still watched Shogun or The Bear tho
I stop buying anything Dissknee after endgame.
@@rl8259If you genuinely believe they want to improve and make good movies, you must have been living under a rock the past 5 years.
Bro you dont know how making movie works,
Having a movie, a movie with the budget, any return yoh gave gets the single studio, so marvel, not Disney
I watched the Mufasa trailer yesterday and at the end my only thought was, "okay... they didn't show me any reason why I should want to see this. Just, it's about Mufasa. That's enough."
I might be the only human on the planet who's for most of his life actually wanted a lion king prequel ive always wanted to know what mufasa and scars childhood was like and what lead to all the hatred and betrayal and they couldnt even set THAT up right, like im the 1% who should be excited for this and I have ZERO interest in this good job disney
You're not the only one. The idea of Mufasa and Scar's origin stories would have been brilliant to see... If only it were 2D animated and were written and told by the same folks who created the original masterpiece.
That's perfectly natural when you grew up at a time when Dis hired people who knew how to tell stories. The expectation that it would be of a certain standard was a reasonable one. Nobody could have foreseen this.
@@liamphibia i dont mind the cgi, im a big visuals person and the lion king remake looked extraordinary. the problem was the horrible casting and watering down of the story, on top of the fact it was just an unnecessary retelling of the same story. a new story with cgi would be dope to me.
that being said like others are saying i dont trust disney to do it well and itll likely be dogshit.
Question: Who is this made for?
Answer: The Investors.
Mads Mikkelsen needs to fire his agent. He boomed thanks to Hannibal and it seems nearly every thing he's been in since, at least in America, has been awful.
Mikkelsen is not in Hollywood to make art. He knows nothing of value is being made there. He he's there to make MONEY. LOTS OF MONEY
@@alidaraie But can't be do both?
@@EndThusIAm Well, as far as I know, he's still making good films at home.
@@alidaraie Yeah, guess gotta learn a new language
Valhalla Rising, watch it. You're welcome.
The thumbnail makes Mufasa look completely gormless.
I concur, there is no gorm.
Remember in the 90s, Disney put out a bunch of straight to vhs movies like Little mermaid 2 and Lady and the tramp 2? This is the same thing, except now Disney is stupid enough to put it in theaters first.
Say what you want about the old sequels, they were cheap and made their money back. How much is this turkey going to have to make just to break even?
The thumbnail is the face I make when I realize they are making a Mufasa. XD
SurprisedMufasa.jpg
If Kathleen Kennedy interviewed you for a job at Disney and you just sat down and told her to ‘feck off’ to which she replies ‘I’ll destroy your career!!!’…does that mean you’ve got the job?🤔🤷🏼♂️
Hahahahahahaha. 101% yes
I like that meme where someone has Rafiki yeet the cub right off the top of Pride Rock.
I'd watch a remake of that 😂
There's also the tagline that says "orphan" which, you know if you watched the oringal, he wasn't. And he tells Simba about his father so... Are we retconning the originals???
You must avenge my death, Kimba.
I mean, Simba 🦁
6:20 Oh don't worry about that, they'll save young Scar for the post-credits scene like they always do
Hey kids do you remember that one character, from that one movie that was actually cool..well we’re making an entire movie about them. Why? Well, it’s because we have no originality or talent..we’re Disney.
It’s far worse than that. The leadership at Disney (and most major institutions worldwide, oddly) are actively committing suicide. Theyre not incompetent, they literally are trying to destroy their own legacy in some psychotic longterm social engineering agenda.
There's emptiness behind their eyes
There's dust in all their hearts
They just want to steal us all
And take us all apart
If it's not already, "Fantagonism" should be a thing
As in a new term
Thats great
can they make it any more obvious that they are completely and utterly sapped for anything resembling a new idea?
i mean fuck, talk about beating a dead horse, their now beating that dead horses dead father lmao
Exactly. Disney is pushing any old shit out in desperation to stay relevant
They fired & replaced everyone who knew how to do this.
My favorite part is when the lion hollers “It’s MUFASA TIME!”
Mads Mikkelson ffs, fire your manager.
He is raking in the cash let him rob Disney
He’s so talented. Needs better movies.
@@sba8710 He makes art in Sweden. He makes money in Hollywood Edit: He's Danish not Swedish lol I feel stupid
I have to ask, do he and Cavil have the same agent?
It's laughable how Disney turned off the comments. Guess the backlash from "toxic fans" made them feel bad.
I'm sure somebody's been working on the cope all weekend. Expect the hashtag tomorrow around 11 pacific time.
The guy behind the movie was outright that the movie looked soulless as hell, and responded by saying something to the effect of "People care about The Lion King."
Not talking about his own fucking movie, but rather the original beloved classic.
Needless to say, this man has absolute faith in the upcoming movie.
You mean John Favreau? I remember seeing that clip, he was saying the music would carry the movie pretty much. Which is also very close to what you're saying
@@Script-007 I don't think Favreau's heart was in that one. I always got the impression he'd rather still be making _Star Wars._
That was director Barry Jenkins. The one who directed Moonlight.
Yikes, he ain't getting it.
People used to care about a lot of things. Hollywood (not just Disney) cannot grasp that your ex, who loved you when you married her, stopped when you cheated and divorced her. You're a bad memory now. A bad memory showing up at her door at 3 am, stinking of beer and piss, waving an old VHS of the Lion King.
Families would rather go see Sonic Movie 3 on that same day instead because Sonic is fun, bright, energetic, expressive, entertaining, fast-paced and highly respectful to it's game roots.
Btw Drinker, I'd love to see do a little review on Sonic 3.
Oh Will, you missed your opportunity to say, "fanimosity" (animosity).
I would not want my name in the credits of this film!
Prequels are almost always a horrible idea. You know the protagonist makes it, so there's zero tension.
Because the protagonist dying is the only possible source of tension? That's a strange argument. People get invested in other characters, too. Do you disagree that the Star Wars prequel made moments like Obi-Wan's clash against Vader in A New Hope better? The issue with prequels is that they're almost always made for the wrong reasons.
In almost all action/adventure movies, you know the hero is going to make it. You just don't know how. James Bond and Indiana Jones are always going to escape danger, thwart the villain and get the girl. But audiences are still willing to go along for the ride and suspend their disbelief if the stakes appear to be high enough in the moment. Prequels suck for the same reason that sequels suck. They are mostly uninspired cash grabs. But I'm convinced that you could make a good prequel, if there is a good enough story to tell and the right person to tell it. It can't just be an origin story. That's boring. It has to stand on its own and be more than just a pale reflection of the original. An example of a great prequel is the book Commanche Moon, by Larry McMurtry (not the miniseries.) I like it even better than Lonesome Dove. It has more colorful characters and tells the story of Woodrow and Gus when they were young and in the prime of life, having adventures in a lawless Texas frontier that had vanished by the time of the first book.
It's possible to have other stakes. You _do_ need talent in writing, though.
It's the "whodunnit" versus "howcatchem" problem. If you know who did the crime, then the excitement has to come from watching Columbo figure it out and catch him.
@@GibsMeMunny This
I thought Disney is the one company that doesn't copyright strike their trailers. Anyway, that's what Gary says on FNT.
In either case it's stupid for companies to copyright strike people watching their trailers. It's free advertising for them.
That was old Disney. It's like when somebody you grew up with becomes a self-destructive addict. You have to accept that this person with his name and face is not your friend. It's the chemical that is killing them.
What the hell happened to Mauler? Where is the mask!?
Oh the horror!😭
This could beat The Marvels for biggest drop off for a sequel. Even if this made 600M it would still beat The Marvels
Even if it made 200.6 million it made more than the marvels
A sequel/prequel shouldn’t be made unless the idea for the sequel is as good as or better than the original film.
There’s maybe 10 sequels that were as good or improved on the original in cinema history.
I don’t mean planned trilogies. I mean an original idea does well, so a studio decide/ a to make another.
Which ones? I think this is a good open bar question .
@@sba8710 yeah me too.
I’d say T2 is the best sequel, aliens is as good as alien, Toy Story 2, godfather 2, dark knight, rocky 2. There’s 6 and I’m struggling . Things like LOTR, back to the future and the OT were always meant to be trilogies so I’d not consider them. I said Dark knight but you could take that out because it’s part of a trilogy. And godfather but I just ignore 3.
Good sequels are pretty common at this point I mean we literally just had Dune: Part Two, Topgun: Maverick and Pearl
@@rl8259 dune part 2 is one film in 2 parts, its like the deathly hallows 1 & 2, it’s one film. The original top gun isn’t great and I haven’t seen X or Pearl. Are you recommending?
@@zh1992 Yeah great call back to old school grindhouse horror. I mean Scorsese recommends them and that’s all you need haha
Coming soon: Mufasa II: Wakanda Forever
Great a prequel we never needed
I sold my Disney stock some time ago. It's still on my Watch List, and it's recommended as "Strong Buy" green green green as it continues to swirl the drain.
I mean, I knew the movie would be bad because it's Disney but when I watched the trailer, I was shocked at how it just looked like a complete retread of the first movie. The same shots and iconic moments; it's all there. This is the apex of creative bankruptcy.
"Everything is just a COPY of a COPY of a COPY" - Fight Club
💯💯💯. Very true, sadly.
"...The entire city must be purged"
Just wtf Disney. Instant eye-roll when I saw the thumbnail.
Cannot wait to find out Mufasa was Scar's mean older brother who gives him his namesake, and Scar was just misunderstood and acting out the trauma of his childhood.
“Inception levels of brand -exploitation.” My god that is so funny and true!
Tbh, it feels like a trailer for a standard Disney Plus Marvel or Star Wars series. Only thing missing is Mufasa wielding a Lightsabre, lol.
I must confess I really enjoy this more one on one kind of conversation. It feels like ideas get to expressed in much more detail and developed alongside each other. I still enjoy the larger group talks, but would love to see this kind of "more intimate" discussions more often. Regardless keep up the great work and am really enjoying what you're doing!
Finally, giving the people what they want: A hyper-real CGI prequel to the CGI remake of Lion King.
😂😂😂😂😂
1. Scar is in it
2. Beyonces daughter is playing Simba's daughter! So the line of kings has gone female centric!
This isn't about storytelling anymore. It's about tech demos, and investments.
The first CGI Lion King movie was a billion dollar showcase, showing new 3D animation tools and how they could be used.
They just used an already existing IP to do it.
How is this guy in a conversation with drinker and he hasn’t done his homework on the thing that drinker is 100% going to want to talk about… completely baffling
I for one am dying to find out how scar got his scar. Wow, the mind boggles at the possibilities.
I assume Nick Fury gave it to him
The "live action" Lion King made a zillion dollars because it was a cheap way to take your five-year-old to the zoo. It didn't have to be any good because the target audience just wanted to stare at animals
I love, how on the first Lion King 'live action' movie, they realised you can do NOTHING interesting with 'realistic' CGI lions, apart from running forwards...so that's what all the animals do, throughout the movie, just run or walk across the screen, or toward camera. Once you take note of that happening it's friggin hilarious! Looks like we're getting the same in 'Mufasa' also!!
Wait... there's a mufasa movie?
Pain and suffering is all you will get with movies and TV. Read books, learn to write, and become inspired to write your own story.
Good point
Or just watch older/classic stuff
I guess it's like a nature documentary with a plot. Like watching Planet Earth or something.
You guys are bang on with three points -- paying money to watch is a modern Disney movies, is a default NO -- nobody should attend their theme parks anymore, because if they cannot be trusted in media, they certainly cannot be trusted in person -- grand employee clean out is needed; Disney needs to return to the ideal family at the core of their stories and projects, so any employee no longer willing to promote the traditional ideal family needs to be fired ... whether executives, or stories writing, or administration, or park performers, or most of all at the corporate director level.
'Mufasa: The Uncanny Taxidermy'
💯👍. ACCURATE
Might be good. We will see. I just saw the trailer. It didn’t tell me anything but I didn’t get excited. I was waiting for Scar to appear in it.
I should be a Disney adult. I grew up by Disneyland and went several times a week as a teenager in the late 90s. It used to be my life. But I just can't drink the Kool aid when it does not taste good.
The Lion King remake was a trap. A lot of people went to see it because they remembered the original as children.
I remember hearing about this ages ago and seeing something like: Scar isn’t a villain he is just misunderstood.
To that I thought back to the animated Lion King and then thought:
Yeah ok sure a “misunderstood” uncle kidnaps, nearly kills his nephew and oh don’t forget KILLS his brother by making him lose his grip on a cliff edge and gets trampled by a stampede.
I actually cried when I saw that as a kid and I bet I still would if I rewatched it now but for this modern one I’d rather not let my eyes experience the visual assault whatsoever.
Yep Scar is 100% misunderstood no doubt about it.
Fanamosity is the word you were looking for. 7:26
Unlike the Lion King reboot, this doesn't even work as member berries.
Disney making the Star Wars prequels good by comparison is a truly amazing feat 😂
It's not just Disney movies that are a default no. All movies are a default no now! Until proven by trusted reviewers having their say. And those are not found in mainstream media. Thank God for channels like this.
And they're doing their unreal animals again
The new name of the musk take over of Disney
Dis-X
Hey Mufasa, you have a destiny: be killed by your apparently-not-a-brother and die a horrible and painful death, your wife will be abused by Scar and his hyenas, your kid will eat bugs being raised by meerkat and warthhog, and your kingdom which you've built for your whole life will lie in ruins for who knows how long until your kid gets it together and gets it right. Wonderful, isn't it?
“Didn’t you want to know Mufasa’s backstory?”
“No”
“Yeah me neither…”
I have actively avoided EVERY live action remake of the animated Disney classics.
Same.
The blocking of comments by large studios when they produce content is really telling of how the public really feels about their products.
Disney could be the number one streaming service over night if they did one thing, Throw open the Disney vault and put online every single Disney title, movie and TV. Disney still owns some of the best family films and TV ever made.
Mufasa Meets Shere Khan. If anyone but Disney made this I'd be excited.
How can he not have a drop of noble blood? He's a lion ffs! The first movie makes it clear that the lions are the aristocracy and all the other animals are the commoners.
I think it has very little to do with the actual story because Mufassa's story is one I think many people would like to see. In my opinion, the negative comments are more about what happened over the last 3 or 4 years... people are so fed up with Hollywood, Disney being so political, and all the politics...that they are being super critical about everything, even potentially good stuff. ***Not a fan of the real life animation though, at all.
I have never seen a prequel that was worth the effort to watch…
“I don’t get why it was made” $1.6b that’s why… movies are a business people
It's never appropriate to make death threat jokes. If someone makes one, you have every right to report it to the police.
The origin story prequel of an African king that I actually want to watch is: Shikaka! The White Bat!
White devil!
Disney had to work hard to achieve this level of brand damage. It's kind of impressive.
The real story is how death threats are being made but arrests are not
A prequel to a remake of a cult classic based on Hamlet 😂
Man, we are DOOOOWN the rabbit hole
Soooo true
“Curiouser and Curiouser”
- Alice
The biggest thing a new CEO/board could do to fix Disney: Move the creative studio work OUT of California and similar places.
Basically, you first fire all the activists and diversity hires. Sell off or consolidate parts of the movie and TV business that aren’t viable anymore or can be farmed out cheaply to contractors (I.e. replace Marvel with a system where you contract passionate indie comics people to write Spider-Man, etc.). Then you MOVE the centers of production for the content off the coasts and you enact a de facto “normal people only” rule for hiring the new creatives. That means no more Billy “Pounding butt IS my personality” Eichner, no more people who look like practice mannequins for tattoo artists and nose ring salesmen, and generally nobody who’s Professionally black, gay etc. rather than an artist first. You’ll find plenty of them outside the rotted out cities of the US and in other countries, so start fishing from that talent pool rather than the cultural Chernobyl of SoCal.
After that, the new producers and executives need to be ruthless in promoting success and punishing failure. The people & groups that make profitable, successful shows get promoted to more creative control and bigger budgets, the failures get axed. From now on everyone works their way up to getting the $200Mil blockbuster project; they aren’t just handed it because they have a ‘victim’ identity and a CV that basically amounts to “made some whiny no budget arthouse movie” (I.e. what happened with “Eternals”). The same should apply to producers reviewing scripts and concepts for new projects. Anything overly woke, political, or simply unpopular in the sense of producing massive audience backlash & hostility (i.e. junk like this lion king movie) doesn’t get greenlit. And groups that keep floating such lead balloons get fired if they can’t propose something viable.
At the highest level, the vision should be to make great, unifying art again. To make stuff the people will still enjoy in 50 years instead of memory hole in 5 minutes. Once you have the right processes and cult in place, you can identify such great emerging artists and promote them to the point that they’re in total control of conceiving & executing gigantic projects that might cost a billion dollars. But you’ll be acting as the patron of a potential Michelangelo & new Sistine chapel by that point, not handing Mrs. “Not so secret gay agenda” woman $100Mil to wreck one you already own.
At this point I feel like Disney needs like 3, 4 or even 5 big hits, to regain credibility and status.
I feel like 1 or 2 won't cut it, the memes are too ingrained and it will take a lot to rinse.
If nothing else, this will have the same problem that most _prequels_ have - We've already seen the main characters die. There are no "stakes" to anything.....