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Barry Jenkins Says All-Virtual Filmmaking ‘Is Not My Thing’ After Directing ‘Mufasa’; Disney Sent Him a Note Worrying That One Long Take Was Too ‘Slow’
Barry Jenkins directed Disney's "Mufasa" using virtual production tools. He's not likely to make another movie the same way again.
Vulture has an extensive breakdown of the three years Jenkins spent making “Mufasa” using all-virtual production tools, just as director Jon Favreau did before him on 2019’s “The Lion King.” The new film serves as a prequel to that story. Even though he had to work in an all virtual space, Vulture reports that Jenkins tried his hardest to ensure “Mufasa” remained a movie with his trademark flourishes. The publication notes the film has “many long, gliding, unbroken takes that float gracefully toward and around the characters, evoking not the typical Disney-cartoon visual grammar buttechniques perfected by so-called slow-cinema masters like Béla Tarr, Jia Zhangke and Gus Van Sant.
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