The Lion King Reborn (2024 film)

The Lion King Reborn is an upcoming 2024 American animated epic, adventure, musical, drama, and dark comedy film directed by Rob Minkoff, Howy Parkins, and Roger Allers from a screenplay by Jeff Nathanson and Kendall Michele Haney, and produced by Walt Disney Pictures. It is a remake of Disney's 2019 film of the same name.

With the film co-produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and Mercury Filmworks, it is set to be distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures on July 19th in the United States on YouTube, celebrating the 1994 film's 30th anniversary.

Synopsis
The reboot tells a young lion named Simba, who is to succeed his father, Mufasa, as King of the Pride Lands when his evil younger brother Scar murders him in a massively wildebeest stampede; a subplot involving a meerkat and warthog duo named Timon and Pumbaa, who search a place as their dream home with no predators via the word "Hakuna Matata" (a meaning to "No Worries" in Swahili); Simba and Nala's daughter Kiara falling in love with Kovu, a male rogue lion from a banished pride that was once loyal to Scar; and Simba's second-born son Kion leading Fuli the cheetah, Bunga the honey badger, Beshte the hippopotamus, and Ono as the Lion Guard to protect the Circle of Life and begin a journey to the Tree of Life.

Cast
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Development
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