A damn Mufasa movie prequel??

One thing I love about the upcoming Mufasa prequel is ALL of the screenshot redraws the fanbase is gonna provide, and that in the art style of the original '94 film.

Granted, there's already a bunch of 'em since the trailer came out, but there'll be WAY MORE once the entire film is released. ❤️

Long live the king.

First poster for Disney's Mufasa. 🦁

Mufasa: The Lion King. Coming 2024.

Mufasa wasn't an orphan. Or is disney doing the multiple timelines thing marvel is doing

The remake is it's own thing, occupying it's own space separate from the original 1994 film and its subsequent works (Simba's Pride, The Lion Guard, you get the idea). So anything that happens in Mufasa 2024 won't be automatically officially canon to the original film, in the same way that there are aspects of the 2019 film that contradict elements established in the original's canon works (the origin of the scar etc).

That's not necessarily gonna stop the fandom however.

See, The Lion King fandom relies not only on canon and headcanons, it's also relied over the many years on semi-canonical works (mainly books and comics), and canonical works that don't really match the original's tone and so aren't really supposed to be taken 100% seriously (The Lion King 3 being a parody, but also providing Timon's backstory). Then you have canon works that jump the shark. The Lion Guard is canon as far as Disney are concerned, but a fair portion of the fandom either cherry picks things they like from it, or straight up ignores the whole thing altogether.

TLK occupies an interesting corner of wider fandom, in that it's not quite chaotic enough to resemble the likes of Doctor Who, where canon doesn't really exist at all and the fandom just does whatever the fuck it wants, nor does it resemble the kind of fandom that sticks to regularly accepted canon. Nor does it resemble something like Star Wars, which not only has a large canon to take from, but also a massive extended universe that Disney very emphatically stated was non-canon after their acquisition of the franchise.

So now we swing back to this new film. Sure, the remake doesn't exist in the same universe as the original, however this absolutely would not stop the fandom incorporating orphan!Mufasa into general fanon. And what's more, if reports are to be correct, Scar will be named Taka in this new film - which comes from one of the semi-canonical sources I've mentioned before, and something that has been simply accepted in fanon for decades.

But here's the thing. Because Mufasa and Scar differ so much in design, the fan designs of their parents, Ahadi and Uru (also semi-canonical characters), are largely influenced by their sons' appearances. So if Mufasa no longer being their biological son starts to show up in the fanworks of the original universe, there may be some interesting consequences headcanon-wise for other characters and their fanon stories.

I'm so sorry anon, I've just infodumped a bunch of The Lion King fandom stuff at you, and I'm not sure I've explained it great but oh well.

I saw the new Mufasa teaser trailer and honestly I'm hyped. I thought it would be bad at first but i'm actually really excited. Here's my thoughts:

I heard that they're bringing in white lions! That's so exciting. I wonder what they would look like in the Disney style 2D animated.

The snowy land was a bit odd but I guess if they're using white lions that makes sense. It was an interesting route to go for sure.

At first I was a bit uneasy about Mufasa being adopted because I thought it made no sense why Scar's parents would pick Mufasa to be king over their own son. But it makes sense why Scar would hate him so much. And also for stealing Sarabi from him which was confirmed in the previous movie. This was also an interesting way to go.

I'm happy that they're using Taka as Scar's name. But Ahadi and Uru are not going to be used which kinda makes me sad. I love Uru especially. Apparently Scar's parents are Eshe and Obasi and Mufasa's parents are Afia and Masego.

Also Kiara is making an appearance??? I'm guessing Rafiki is telling the story to her.

I don't consider any of this to be canon in my hc. At least this movie is only canon to the live action movies and not the TLK franchise itself.

They should have made an animated Mufasa film, in the style of the original Lion King movie. That would have been something.

None the less i am stull curios what kind of story they came up with.

Mufasa was my favourw father figure growing up

Someone's mocking the young prince Taka, and he wouldn't take it in silence. But his big brother asks him to calm down.

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Ok but 2024 is probably going to be the golden year for The Lion King franchise and fandom.

The Lion King 1 1/2's 20th anniversary on February 10th, 2004.

The Lion King Family Tree, a tie-in book for The Lion Guard featuring the family trees of characters from both the movies and the show (and was delayed numerous times during the show's airing,) will finally release on May 4th, 2024, being the first Lion Guard related content to be released after the show's ending. I partially theorize that this book will serve as a decade anniversary tribute to The Lion Guard as it was originally announced in the summer of 2014, concurrently as part of The Lion King's 20th anniversary.

The Lion King's 30th anniversary in June of 2024 (for both a limited and worldwide theatrical release).

The release of Mufasa: The Lion King, the sequel to John Favereu's 2019 remake of The Lion King - Whilst there has been talks of more sequels to the live-action incarceration, nothing has been fully set in stone, so depending on its release, it may be the final installment in The Lion King franchise. Chronologically, The Lion Guard's final episode Return to the Pride Lands serves as an epilogue/ending to the trilogy, but Mufasa: The Lion King should hopefully be the movie that closes this franchise out for good (I'm still in denial and hoping that they aren't going to go a Star Wars and turn this into a shitty cinematic universe).

Newly released image from MUFASA THE LION KING.

Releasing in theaters on December 20

🐵 Young Rafiki & Mufasa 🦁

And thus Scar gave himself the scar to play himself as the victim and blamed everyone else for it (his brother, his dad, a buffalo, a cobra snake, etc.)

Since Mufasa: The Lion King (2024) is about Rafiki telling Mufasa's backstory to Kiara, as someone whose first introduction to the Lion King franchise was Simba's Pride, I kinda feel obligated to watch it.

Plus, the varied landscapes look way more interesting than the savanna did in the 2019 remake.

Though I do wish that if they have to make it "live-action", they'd at least go with making it in the Broadway musical style.

MUFASA: The Lion King

OK but I'm still none the wiser as to whether Ahadi and Uru are in this thing?!