There's an assumption that because Favreau directed The Jungle Book this film will be all CG, but I wonder if they would use the Broardway musical instead. The casting would be not be a non-issue because the cast is made up primarily of PoC, but wouldn't this hurt all the broadway productions around the world? I had assumed they wouldn't do a Lion King remake for this reason.
That's what we said about the first announcement of Beauty And The Beast and The Jungle Book.
It hasn't stopped them from doing Beauty and Beast.
BatB isn't the Broadway behemoth Lion King is.
If there isn't songs from the original film in this movie I would be upset.
Jaws is pretty much the only classic Universal ride that I'll actually miss but Diagon Alley more than makes up for it. Plenty of practical effects throughout the land itself and we still have a blast of fire. The problem with Gringotts is not just "screenz." There are plenty of other mostly screen based rides out there that are still much better. The problem is with pacing and how they focused so much on one specific event. The story would've faired better as a simple coaster ride through the vaults, screens or no screens.
That's a pretty risky bet for a show that still is one of the strongest shows currently on Broadway with a healthy touring business. It just seems like more harm than good.
Those are different. This is actually physically reanimating and revoicing an entire movie in CGI which I'm against because there's no difference. Beauty and the Beast and The Jungle Book have decent (if still cash grabby) reasons for Live Action remakes but there's no point in remaking The Lion King in live action because there's no human characters. It's reanimating.
Universal doesn't have anything to sell. They do not "own" the rights. They license them from Marvel/Disney and pay a bargain price for it every year.
