The Lion King - Film

Cats - The Movie.

James Earl Jones as Mufasa! Excellent! So glad he's reprising the role.

Hunchback of Notre Dame would be amazing but I think it’d need to be closer to the novel similar to the stage adaptation

If Dumbo does well, I could see them remaking Bambi

Except that for Cats they have to dance. A lot. Having a cat represented by a human who is dancing is fine (if you like that sort of thing) but having a cat that looks like a real cat dancing like a human is just bizarre and wrong. No doubt for this reason the animals in the 2016 Jungle Book don’t dance. I can’t see Cats working at all unless I’ve totally misunderstood how they’re going to do it. 

I thought they were doing a live action Lion King and I have ended up very confused by this trailer. I was expecting something more like a movie version of the play.

That said, I still think this looks good.

It left me cold too - from this teaser, it looks like they’ve basically just re-created the original film shot-for-shot but using CGI instead of animation. I also don’t think ‘Live Action’ should be synonymous with ‘Motion Capture/CGI’ and it’s false advertising if they were saying it would be the former.

I'm in the underwhelmed camp I'm afraid. It's ok until the characters come into it at the end and they (Rafiki, Simba) just don't realistic enough to be believable as anything other than cgi.

The originals visuals were more striking in that opening scene, the realism adds a slight drabness to it.

Not a fan that they've cut one of the best songs either.

agreed it shouldn't be advertised as live action as it's obviously not

I imagine it will include more songs, especially one or two newly written in order to make it eligable at the Oscars. They'd be crazy to not give Beyonce a big ballad.

They've already announced the songs.

"There's going to be four of our songs in the film, from the original: 'Can You Feel The Love Tonight', 'Hakuna Matata', 'I Just Can't Wait To Be King' and 'Circle of Life'.

"And then there will be an end, closing song, and we've been speaking to Beyoncé's people and hopefully Tim and I and her can cook up something."

not quite. disappointing they cut be prepared. one of the best villain songs for one of the best Disney villains.

I'm not sure if it's just me getting older but I really feel the heart has gone from Disney in the last few years. Their films used to always seem to punch above their weight - there were things going on below the surface, so I can watch the films I watched as a kid and pick up on serious themes, little details and darker undercurrents that were initially just on the periphery of consciousness and beyond my understanding.

Now it seems more like a corporate machine than ever, churning out endless unimaginative and sanitised remakes and sequels that just feel superficial and dull. This trailer looked like it was put together by an algorithm being fed marketing data. I'm looking forward to How to Train your Dragon 3 more than any of these soulless regurgitations.