The first look at Mufasa: The Lion King has arrived and it doesn’t look good.
Disney saw fit today to release the first look at Mufasa: The Lion King, the prequel absolutely nobody asked for. Considering it’s been five years since CGI remake was released, I’d actually garnered a tiny modicum of curiosity as to what this film might look like…and then I saw the image below:
First look at ‘MUFASA: THE LION KING’, the prequel to the 2019 movie.
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— Disney Animation Promos (@DisneyAPromos) April 3, 2024
And then I remembered exactly why I’d avoided the remake like the plague. This teaser image looks like it came straight out of the 2019 film and that is not a good thing. You know if this were a traditionally animated film, there would be all sorts of details to distinguish young Mufasa from young Simba. But this CGI look….this is not going to work.
I don’t know what Disney was hoping to achieve with this first look….but so far it is doing nothing for me.
What do you think of this first image from Mufasa: The Lion King?
