1. The Lion King movie title wasn’t always The Lion King
Before The Lion King was called The Lion
King, the movie had different titles which included The King of Kalahari and The
King of the Jungle.
2. The Lion King was the first Disney movie to feature
an original storyline
The Lion King has been billed for long as the
first animated Disney film to have an original storyline (a story lime that
wasn’t an adaptation of the story that has existed in the past). Some
individuals however disputed the claim saying The Lion King got its inspiration
from Hamlet and Kimba and the White Lion.
3. The animals and how they related to one
another were different from the previous versions of the scripts
The original script featured
Scar who was in charge of a pack of cruel and violent baboons and not related
to Simba Simba. However, this version wrote Rafiki as a cheetah and Pumbaa and
Timon were both friends with Simba from the onset.
4. The original director of The Lion King
wanted the movie to be like a National Geographic documentary.
George Scribner, the
director of The Lion King wanted the Lion king to be something similar to an
animated National Geographic documentary before the film was turned into a
musical.
5. This animated Disney movie holds the
record of the highest-grossing hand-drawn animated feature of all time
With a total box office
of over $986 million, Lion King is the highest-grossing hand-drawn animated
feature of all time, 8th highest-grossing animated feature, a best-selling
videotape of all time and the 42nd highest-grossing film of all
time.
6. A lullaby called “The Lion in the Moon”
was deleted from the Lion King
A lullaby called “The Lion
in the Moon” which was about a protective lion spirit sung by Sarabi was
removed from the film. The lullaby was supposed to be featured after Simba’s
first encounter with the hyenas.
7. Disney was sued by a Hyena researcher
Disney was sued by a
Hyena researcher for defamation of character because of Disney’s portrayal of
animals in the film.
8. The animators took more than two years to
create the stampede scene
The 2.5-minute wildebeest
stampede took Disney CGI animators more than 2 years (source: the film’s press
notes). Additionally, they had to write a new computer program to govern the
movement of the herd.
9. The original script doesn’t have anything
like “Hakuna Matata”
Instead of Hakuna Matata
that was used, the original script has a song that was about eating bugs called
“He’s got it all worked out”. But the research team returned from their trip to
Africa with Hakuna Matata and the song was born in their meeting.
10. Animals were brought to the studio by a
wildlife expert to help the animators study their movement
Real
African animals like lions and hornbills were brought by wildlife expert Jim
fowler at different stages of the production to the Disney studio to serve as
models to the team. The wildlife expert-taught them how the lions greet each
other, how they show affection and how they protect themselves.
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