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‘Mufasa: The Lion King’: Disney Reveals First Prequel Trailer, Blue Ivy Carter Joins Voice Cast


The film heralds from Moonlight director Barry Jenkins.

According to the trailer description, the story will be told in flashbacks and follows Mufasa (meaning ‘king’ in Swahili) as an orphaned cub, lost and alone until he meets a sympathetic lion named Taka—the heir to a royal bloodline. Other returning voice cast members from the 2019 The Lion King include Donald Glover as Simba, and Seth Rogen and Billy Eichner as Timon and Pumbaa. Blending live-action filmmaking techniques with photoreal computer-generated imagery, Mufasa: The Lion King is produced by Adele Romanski and Mark Ceryak, and executive-produced by Peter Tobyansen.

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