Mufasa: The Lion King director Barry Jenkins says that making all-digital motion pictures isn’t for him.
Mufasa: The Lion King will likely be launched in United States theaters later this month. Directed by Jenkins, the photo-realistically animated movie is a prequel to 2019’s The Lion King
Talking with Vulture, Jenkins hinted that Mufasa: The Lion King often is the final time he makes an attempt all-digital filmmaking.
What did Barry Jenkins say about all-digital filmmaking?
“It’s not my factor. It’s not my factor,” he stated. “I wish to work the opposite means once more, the place I wish to bodily get every thing there. I at all times imagine that what’s right here is sufficient, and let me simply determine what’s the chemistry to make alchemy? How can these folks, this gentle, this atmosphere, come collectively to create a picture that’s shifting, that’s stunning, that creates a textual content that’s deep sufficient, dense sufficient, wealthy sufficient to talk to somebody?”
Previous to Mufasa: The Lion King, Jenkins made 2008’s Medication for Melancholy, the Oscar-winning Moonlight in 2016, and 2018’s If Beale Road Might Discuss.
“Exploring the unlikely rise of the beloved king of the Delight Lands, Mufasa: The Lion King enlists Rafiki to relay the legend of Mufasa to younger lion cub Kiara, daughter of Simba and Nala, with Timon and Pumbaa lending their signature schtick,” the synopsis reads. “Informed in flashbacks, the story introduces Mufasa as an orphaned cub, misplaced and alone till he meets a sympathetic lion named Taka—the inheritor to a royal bloodline. The prospect assembly units in movement an expansive journey of a unprecedented group of misfits looking for their future—their bonds will likely be examined as they work collectively to evade a threatening and lethal foe.”
Mufasa: The Lion King releases in United States theaters on December 20, 2024, from Walt Disney Studios Movement Footage.