The Making Of The Lion King

[@Jostipi]

These men and women made one of the best animated films EVER. Kudos!!!

[@MrGabeanator]

Trabant yes

[@jaysonsan8363]

They didn’t make lion king, the story was stolen, look it up

[@bluetrailerproductions7488]

@@jaysonsan8363 If you're talking about Hamlet, The Filmmakers took inspiration from the story

[@57santiago]

RIP Robert Guillaume. God rest your soul.

[@cbolanz1]

My childhood in 27 minutes. The Lion King is a Legend and will live on forever. my top animated Disney movie ever. 1.The Lion King 2.Aladdin 3.Beauty And The Beast 4.The Little Mermaid 5.Tarzan 6.Mulan 7.Hercules 8.The Hunchback Of Notre dame 9.The Rescuers Down Under 10. Pocahontas

[@anniefinch6843]

I love The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Mary Poppins, Fantasia, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Aladdin. These are my 9 favorite Disney movies. I chose Fantasia because I love seeing Mickey and the reason I chose the others is because they're fun to sing along with.

[@MyJustin316]

RIP Mr Robert Guilluame you will always be in our childhoods as Rafiki in The Lion King you were the circle of our lives 1927-2017

[@kylgrv]

God bless you Robert Guillaume. Thank you for lending your vocal talent to Rafiki.

[@willianramos5650]

I AM BRAZILIAN , I BORN IN ALEGRETE RS , BRAZIL , RIP !

[@thesilentsiren]

This casting was 100% perfect.

[@vinceniederman3235]

Vincent Price says "Disney is a magical name to me" Love when actors in thier first disney film say that which i'll do the same by saying"I've been watching disney for years it's a pleasure to do voice-over for a villain character"

[@JYDY-if5rf]

Rest in peace Robert Guillaume as benson and rafiki

[@MrGabeanator]

RIP Robert guilluame

[@willianramos5650]

OH

[@MrGabeanator]

what

[@denisgauthier9191]

he was a good man and an awesome voice actor he's missed but never forgotten and his spirit will forever live in all that is good

[@MrGabeanator]

yes it is

[@epache315]

R.I.P. Robert Guillaume Voice of Rafiki from Disney's The Lion King Trilogy Disney's The Lion King And Mr. Thicknose from The Land Before Time VIII The Big Freeze

[@raghadabdulrahman6578]

I cried this movie was a part of my childhood 😭💕 it is a true masterpiece

[@vinceniederman3235]

Jeremy Irons is My Favorite Actor in The Lion King Great Performance As Scar!

[@peteranddavidproductions3403]

This documentary should've been put onto the 2003 platinum edition dvd and the 2011 diamond edition blu-ray

[@epache315]

R.I.P. Robert Guillamue (1927-2017) Voice Of Mr.Thicknose from The Land Before Time VIII The Big Freeze and Rafiki from Disney's The Lion King a.k.a. Disney's The Lion King Trilogy

[@vinceniederman3235]

I love the way she says Frollo was the best villain she'd ever worked on

[@joecates2986]

my favourite Disney movie ever

[@rodneyskinnermusic]

I love this movie so much!!! I remember seeing this movie for the first time at the theater when I was 4 years old, (Even though I fell asleep during the end) LOL!! It was wonderful!!! The Acting, The Animation, The Art, Sound, and OF COURSE The Music. And with me being African American the music from the movie inspired me to become a Musician and it really made me interested in learning about my African heritage through the music and the culture of Africa And this Amazing musical collaboration, the genius of Hans Zimmer ,and the genius of Lebo M and his singers really took this movie to another realm.

[@mahedimorsheddhrubo4514]

So far the best animated movie i have seen......

[@annc7739]

Moira Kelly is a beautiful actress with a firm but gentle voice that’s music to the ears.😌

[@kwesib4695]

Terrific presentation. Miss you Mr Robert 😢

[@vinceniederman3235]

I think scar's voice with a british voice by mr. irons is just down right good! If i ever meet mr. irons i would ask him what voicing scar was like Scar is the best cartoon villain ever!

[@MrMarlon997]

Casting The voice actors were chosen for how they fit and could add to the characters - for instance, James Earl Jones was cast because the directors found his voice "powerful" and similar to a lion's roar.[16] Jones commented that during the years of production, Mufasa "became more and more of a dopey dad instead of [a] grand king".[17] Nathan Lane originally auditioned for Zazu, and Ernie Sabella, for one of the hyenas. Upon meeting each other at the recording studio, the actors, who at the time both co-starred in Guys and Dolls, were asked to record together as hyenas. The directors laughed at their performance and decided to cast them as Timon and Pumbaa.[16][18] For the hyenas, the original intention was to reunite Cheech & Chong, but while Cheech Marin accepted to play Banzai, Tommy Chong was unavailable. Thus his role was changed into a female hyena, Shenzi, who was voiced by Whoopi Goldberg, these other guys the casts of the teenager simba between cub and teen and teenage simba between teen and adult and young adult simba Adolescence Teen Simba Teenage Simba A teenaged Simba appears briefly during the log sequence of "Hakuna Matata." Simba is older than his adolescent counterpart in The Lion King 1½ (in which his teenaged self makes a longer appearance), evident by the mane that begins to run down his neck and the mane that begins to appear on his chest his face and lower body. a voice for teenage simba between adult and teen [10] Matthew Broderick was cast as adult Simba early during production, and during the three years of voice acting only recorded with another actor once, and only discovered Moira Kelly voiced Nala at the premiere.[19] Jeremy Irons had at first refused the role due to not being comfortable going from the dramatic performance as Claus von Bülow in Reversal of Fortune to a comedic role. But once he came in, Irons' performance even inspired the writers to incorporate more of his acting as von Bülow - even adding one of that character's lines, "You have no idea" - and animator Andreas Deja to watch both Reversal of Fortune and Damage to pick up Irons' facial traits and tics.[17][20]

[@tuningin88]

This is one of my favorite specials. 😍😍😍😍🍿🍿🍿🍿🎬🎬🎬🎬

[@anniefinch6843]

I remember this movie and it's on Disney plus but it's a live action movie. My favorite song in the movie is I just can't wait to be king.

[@vinceniederman3235]

Yes back to our movie talks again

[@anniefinch6843]

I remembered that the voice of the lead hyena was in Oliver and Company as the voice of Tito a chihuahua. I meant Cheech Miren.

[@vinceniederman3235]

Well i've been watching disney films since i was a kid i never get old for disney i love when actors in disney films say:Disney is a magical name to me" I'll say that when i do voice over work for villains in cartoon films when i become a actor,director winning emmy's golden globes saying "This award is for my family"

[@8QQ8]

My childhood💛

[@johnson6099]

I didn't know he narrated all the "Happily Ever After, Fairytales for Every Child"!!!💜💙💜💙💜💙💜💙💜💙

[@JYDY-if5rf]

Robert Guillaume voices Rafiki 4:26

[@epache315]

4:26 R.I.P. Robert Guillaume Voice Of Rafiki from Disney's The Lion King Trilogy

[@vinceniederman3235]

Speaking of sleeping beauty that was the first disney film i ever watched as a kid i watched over 100 times man

[@MrMarlon997]

Thomas Disch wrote a film treatment, and Woolverton developed the first scripts while George Scribner was signed on as director, being later joined by Allers. Production began in 1991 concurrently with BCC PRIDE, which wound up attracting most of Disney's top animators. Some time after the staff traveled to Hell's Gate National Park in Kenya to research on the film's setting and animals, Scribner left production disagreeing with the decision to turn the film into a musical, and was replaced by Minkoff. When Hahn joined the project, he was dissatisfied with the script and the story was promptly rewritten. Nearly 20 minutes of animation sequences took place at Disney-MGM Studios in Florida. Computer animation was also used in several scenes, most notably in the wildebeest stampede sequence.

[@mbart5113]

James Earl Jones is the same movie star actor that played the North American admiral man in The Hunt For Red October with Alec Baldwin/Alexander Rae Baldwin the III as Dr. Jack Ryan/John Patrick Ryan Sr..

[@vinceniederman3235]

Thanks man your too kind

[@vinceniederman3235]

Iago has to be the funniest sidekick for a villain before scar's henchmen in the lion king Gabe

[@farrowanvari5299]

RIP Robert Guillaume voice of rafiki in the lion king

[@vinceniederman3235]

The one person makes me of Ratigan is The Late Great Vincent Price Ratigan is a classic disney villain R.I.P. Vincent Price

[@vinceniederman3235]

Villains are the best part in Movies without them there' is NO story

[@vinceniederman3235]

Man its coming soon on that day i'll wish a happy birthday to you god bless you!

[@vinceniederman3235]

Glen Keane did a great of making ratigan i'm sure vincent price had the pleasure of voicing ratigan and working with glen keane

[@MrGabeanator]

ik he did

[@vinceniederman3235]

Disney is always magical to actors cause it's magic disney lives on forever my friend

[@RileyAndersen2015]

This should’ve been on the special edition 2003 DVD

[@vinceniederman3235]

If i had a voice in my head i would think rather then speaking to gather my thoughts

[@59771006]

"Hakuna Matata" is a Swahili phrase and it really does mean "no worries".

[@SpacialRend7]

Happy 30th Anniversary to The Lion King 1994!🦁👑☀️

[@cornellwilson1450]

Anyone here after watching The Lion King (2019) trailer??

[@ashleyhemsworth9619]

So, this was a nature documentary/film documentary narrated by Robert Guillaume.

[@MrGabeanator]

this is great

[@vinceniederman3235]

Think hard What's your favorite scene in the hunchback of notre dame? I love when frollo gets angry he has the best mad faces ever

[@seancurran9271]

Im looking forward to the live action version

[@vinceniederman3235]

My favroite characters in aladdin,pinocchio,snow white,peter pan are Jafar,Honest John,The Evil Queen,Captain Hook

[@vinceniederman3235]

Your Welcome Gabriel What's the weather like in texas?

[@epache315]

2024 will be the 30th Anniversary of Disney's The Lion King

[@vinceniederman3235]

I know scar's voice is jeremy irons and the music is just great that's all i gotta say about this great disney movie

[@TheMOVIEMANIAC13]

I LOVE THE LION KING!!!! #teamsimba its the best film eva!

[@vinceniederman3235]

+TheMOVIEMANIAC13 Me Too Jeremy Irons is My Favorite Actor In The Film His Voice as Scar is Perfect All The Way!

[@chrisrichardson1091]

13:01 Making A Disney Animated Film Takes Years Of Work By Hundreds Of Very Creative People.

[@MrGabeanator]

never forget that

[@chrisrichardson1091]

Madge Sinclair (Sarabi) 1938 - 1995. Robert Guillaume (Rafiki) 1927 - 2017. James Earl Jones (Mufasa) 1931 - 2024.

[@MrMarlon997]

Development The idea for The Lion King was conceived in late 1988 during a conversation between Jeffrey Katzenberg, Roy E. Disney and Peter Schneider on NOT a plane to Europe to promote NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BCC LIONS BCC PRIDE. During the conversation, the topic of a story set in Africa came up, and Katzenberg immediately jumped at the idea.[7] The idea was then developed by Walt Disney Feature Animation's vice president for creative affairs Charlie Fink.[7] Katzenberg decided to add elements involving coming of age and death, and ideas from personal life experiences, such as some of his trials in his bumpy road in politics, saying about the film, "It is a little bit about myself."[8] In November of that year Thomas Disch (author of BCC PRIDE BY NICKVICE WHITE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LIONS) wrote a treatment entitled King of the Kalahari,[9] and afterwards Linda Woolverton spent a year writing drafts of the script, which was titled King of the Beasts and then King of the Jungle.[7] The original version of the film was very different from the final film. The plot was centered in a battle being between lions and leopards with Scar being the leader of the leopards, Rafiki being a cheetah,[8] and Timon and Pumbaa being Simba's childhood friends.[10] Simba would also leave the kingdom, but become a less "lazy, less slovenly, less horrible character" due to manipulations from Scar, so Simba could be overthrown after coming of age. By 1990, producer Thomas Schumacher, who had just completed lion called christain, decided to attach himself to the project "because lions are vicicous".[7] Schumacher likened the script for King of the Jungle to "an animated National Geographic special".[11] lady and the tramp director George Scribner was the initial director of the film,[13] being later joined by Roger Allers, who was the lead story man on lady and the tramp in October 1991.[6] Allers brought with him Brenda Chapman, who would become the head of story.[7] Afterwards, several of the lead crew members, including Allers, Scribner, Hahn, Chapman, and production designer Chris Sanders, took a trip to Hell's Gate National Park in Kenya, in order to study and gain an appreciation of the environment for the film.[13] After six months of story development work Scribner decided to leave the project, as he clashed with Allers and the producers on their decision to turn the film into a musical, as Scribner's intention was of making a documentary-like film more focused and concenttracted on natural aspects.[7][15] Rob Minkoff replaced Scribner,[13] and producer Don Hahn joined the production as Schumacher became only an executive producer due to Disney promoting him to Vice President of Development for Feature Animation.[11] Hahn found the script unfocused and lacking a clear theme, and after establishing the main theme as "leaving childhood and facing up to the realities of the world", asked for a final retool. Allers, Minkoff, Chapman and Hahn then rewrote the story across two weeks of meetings with directors Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale, who had just finished Beauty and the Beast.[13] The script also had its title changed from King of the Jungle to The Lion King, as the setting was the jungle but the savannah.[7]

[@MrGabeanator]

MALCOLM CARTER amazing aint it

[@dinkyrobb9993]

Rest in peace James Earl Jones (1931-2024).

[@vinceniederman3235]

Besides the lion king and the hunchback of notre dame do you have other disney films you love?

[@vinceniederman3235]

Why the ending scene for frollo? He's the so called "Public Official" from one of his quotes

[@vinceniederman3235]

Gabriel where are you from? I'm From New Jersey

[@malcolmcarter884]

I wish they would make the lion king a lion cub who tries to follow in the paw prints of great lion king can he do it maybe

[@vinceniederman3235]

Sweet that's my favorite disney movie cause frollo has more scenes then disney villain in history cause all of the other villains have some short scenes which really tickes me right off

[@malcolmmonster7987]

I wish they would make teenage simba edvinted by the mane beigns to run down his neck and the mane beigns to appear on his chest and lower body

[@vinceniederman3235]

Well i did watch house of mouse until i started watching spongebob and sonic the hedgehog i still love spongebob and sonic to this day

[@vinceniederman3235]

I'm sure you have never seen the hunchback of notre dame if not you'll like it its villain his name is frollo my favorite disney villain EVER!

[@vinceniederman3235]

Tony Jay was great as Frollo words can't say how great he was so was Kevin Kline

[@epache315]

Judge Frollo he's really special and Tony Jay's Voice was a part Of it. Kevin Kline and Tom Hulce did had fun working with Tony Jay R.I.P. Tony Jay (1933-2006) Voice Of Judge Frollo in Disney's The Hunchback Of Notre Dame

[@vinceniederman3235]

Yeah there are so many disney villains its hard to tell who's the greatest disney villain at #1

[@vinceniederman3235]

I think Frollo is THE best disney villain and my favorite at #1

[@epache315]

Disney's The Lion King Trilogy is On Disney +

[@vinceniederman3235]

What your saying is you love when the villains fail in the end

[@malcolmcarter1544]

THEY WOULD DO A MOVIE CALLED THE LION KING ABOUT A YOUNG LION WHO'S NOT STRUGGLING WITH GROWING UP IN THE AFRICAN JUNGLE

[@MrGabeanator]

ANY other disney shows?

[@MrGabeanator]

IS THERE a word beyond love

[@vinceniederman3235]

My all time favorite movie is jaws which a horror movie which i don't wanna bring up since its so scary for you to watch my friend

[@vinceniederman3235]

Your welcome mine is on august 1st i have a long way to turn 22 man

[@vinceniederman3235]

Which villian's voice do you think is spine chilling?

[@xianli6488]

Better than remake 2019.

[@malcolmmonster7987]

I wish they would work on teenage simba and young adult simba

[@vinceniederman3235]

I'm not sure do you have favorites?

[@DanulaWickramaarachchi]

Great Stuff ! But they didn't mentioned about Rowan Atkinson ! :3

[@MrGabeanator]

thank you so much

[@vinceniederman3235]

Thanks Gabriel

[@vinceniederman3235]

Hey What's Up man?

[@vinceniederman3235]

Steven spielberg is my favorite director at #1 with Spike Lee at #2

[@mrdizdug]

I don't know. I taped it off the Disney Channel. Check with Dave Smith or Becky Klein at the Disney Archives they would know.

[@vinceniederman3235]

Thanks man

[@joshuagarbett]

Castle 🏰 of wicked stepmothers

[@jakewhittle444]

Behind the scenes musical theatre Broadway

[@vinceniederman3235]

Ratcliffe is one of the best villains in disney cause of he's hated for the indians still one of my favorite at #6 cause he's more smart then all of the other characters in the film

[@MrGabeanator]

how many do that

[@vinceniederman3235]

I have two favorite movie directors:Steven Spielberg,Spike Lee

[@barkatsingh1236]

Friends Requests in Walt Disney The Lion king 4 Cartoon Movie 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

[@vinceniederman3235]

Thanks like me do you watch sports?

[@malcolmcarter1544]

THEY MAKE THE STORY OF THE LION KING ITS ABOUT LIKE FATHER LIKE SON

[@vinceniederman3235]

Oh yes HellFire is one of the darkest villains songs ever you know

[@vinceniederman3235]

As long they as don't make box office flops which i hate we need bigger disney films back in the theater like The Lion King,The Hunchback or Notre Dame for one night

[@vinceniederman3235]

Who's your favorite disney villain?

[@vinceniederman3235]

Good point whats your favorite disney film? Mine is The Lion King