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Post by Belchic on Feb 15, 2011 2:06:21 GMT -5
Hey there, everybody!
Well, I just found out today that Confused Matthew is starting to review "The Lion King II: Simba's Pride." He stated in the video that ever since his "Lion King" review, he has gotten an endless amount of requests to review the sequel. He stated that when he reviews a movie that has a sequel, he usually reviews the sequels as well. With that said, chances are he'll get to "The Lion King 1½" sometime soon as well.
Well, when I saw he was doing that, I was inspired to do this.
I remember making a post showing what I think the cast of "The Lion King" would have been like if it were released in the 60's. Well, now I've decided to come up with a cast for "The Lion King 2" if it were released around that time. I know exactly what you all are thinking: That would never have happened, because Walt hated sequels and would not have allowed it. Well, let's erase that fact from our heads for a little bit and just use our imaginations. Here's my estimate for the possible cast of "The Lion King 2" if it were released in 1968:
Simba - Gene Wilder Nala - Cate Bauer Timon - Don Adams Pumbaa - Phil Harris Rafiki - Scatman Crothers Zazu - J. Pat O'Malley Mufasa - Thurl Ravenscroft Young Kiara - Karen Dotrice Adult Kiara - Lesley Ann Warren Young Kovu - Jon Walmsley Adult Kovu - Paul Petersen Young Vitani - Maureen McCormick Adult Vitani - Monica Evans Nuka - Paul Winchel Zira - Eleanor Audley
If I get enough popular demand, I'll make a cast for "The Lion King 1½" if it were released in 1974.
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Post by Trey_Vore on Feb 16, 2011 6:27:21 GMT -5
I'd be happy to hear a list for The Lion King 1 1/2 Belchic. Maybe I can do one too. In the meantime...
Suppose that The Lion King, as I stated, was released in the 1980s. My estimate is it would have been released in 1984. But that would not have been the last we'd hear from it.
A year later, a television spinoff was made to follow in it's success--The Lion King's Timon and Pumbaa. This show would have been released in 1985. It probably would air on ABC and The Disney Channel and probably would have been a megahit, proving the staying power of the franchise.
Like the movie, it stars Paul Reubens as Timon and John Candy as Pumbaa. However like what officially happened eventually Paul Reubens probably would have had to bow out and be replaced by Kevin Schon as the voice of Timon--because in 1986 he was to start making Pee-wee's Playhouse. John Candy would have voiced Pumbaa to the series' end, and the series probably would run up until 1990.
I imagine the series would have been competing against The Wuzzles for ratings--and like what officially happened, Bill Scott's death meant The Wuzzles had to be cancelled early and Timon and Pumbaa was allowed to soar.
Later in 1990 it was to be the oldest cartoon series on the Disney Afternoon block, and after it would be DuckTales, Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers and TaleSpin.
The only downside I can see is we probably never would have gotten Adventures of the Gummi Bears if this happened. Fun to dream though.
Coming up: The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride in the 1980s!
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Post by Belchic on Aug 24, 2011 14:17:28 GMT -5
I'll post my possible cast for Lion King 1.5 in a little while. In the mean time, here is something I thought up a while ago.
I recall posting a topic in here asking about movies that are not based on any books, stage plays or real life events and are all original concepts. Well, the reason I started that topic is because I was trying to come up with another one of my own original celebrity. This person would be an author who wrote books that became those particular movies. To say the least, he will be the author of "All Dogs Go to Heaven", "The Land Before Time", "Spirited Away" and of course, "The Lion King".
As many of you know, film adaptations of books have some radical differences to the books, which is the most common reason why they get criticized so much. So, with that in mind, if "The Lion King" was based on a book, I have taken the liberty to come up with some possibilities of differences the book has from the film:
1. Rafiki would be a woman.
2. Zazu will not be in the story at all.
3. The part where Mufasa shows Simba the kingdom will begin with Mufasa and Sarabi waking Simba up rather than Simba rudely awakening his parents.
4. Scar doesn't trick Simba into going to the elephant graveyard.
5. Instead of dragging Nala along to show her the elephant graveyard, Simba just decides to take Nala swimming.
6. There will be a montage of small events that Simba and Nala do to have fun together.
7. Unlike the movie, Simba and Nala will accidentally stumble into the elephant graveyard and explore it out of curiosity's sake.
8. The hyenas will be a little different. Shenzi and Banzai will keep their names, but Ed will have a different name (I'm not sure what, but it will be a Swahilian name for sure). Also, in the book, the hyenas will be more sinister than they are comical.
9. Timon and Pumbaa will be more like jerks in the book than they are a comical duo.
10. Considering the book will have been written in the 60's, there are obviously some jokes and pop culture references that will not be included in it.
11. There will be a scene where Nala (as an adult) warns Scar that he's making the lionesses overhunt, but Scar tries to hit on Nala. Nala escapes from him and decides to leave Pride Rock to find help.
12. There will be a big scene that isn't from the movie. Simba (as an adult) will take Timon and Pumbaa on some wild goose chase, and along the way, Timon will fall into a stream and almost fall down a waterfall, and Simba and Pumbaa try to save him. During the process, Simba freezes because he thought about his father's death.
13. Timon and Pumbaa do distract the hyenas so Simba and Nala can sneak past them, but they just do something natural, not something crazy like do the hula.
14. When Scar announces to Simba that he is responsible for Mufasa's death, the other lionesses will interupt and tell Scar that what he's saying now is contradicting what he told them after the stampede.
15. During the final battle with Scar and Simba, Scar's death is different. What happens is, Scar gets struck by lightning, and then he falls off of Pride Rock into the fires below.
Think those sound okay?
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Post by Trey_Vore on Sept 18, 2011 12:41:45 GMT -5
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Post by Belchic on Sept 18, 2011 13:47:42 GMT -5
Awesome!!!
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Post by RaceFanX on Sept 18, 2011 23:03:13 GMT -5
First film on a re-release to top the box office since the re-edit of Return of the Jedi in 1997. The Lion King jumped from the 25th highest-grossing film of all-time to the 17th with the additional funds...BUT I still can't figure out why it needs to be in 3D.
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Post by Trey_Vore on Sept 19, 2011 2:18:27 GMT -5
It's the Circle of Life, Race my man. The movie was originally released in 1994 and audiences then had the pleasure of seeing it theatrically. Nostalgia hits people in 2011 and now viewers who were children/teens back in 1994 now have their own children and now kids who are in grade school in 2011 now get their chance to see it in theatres. The 3D gimmick is just cake icing. I also remember reading that Titanic (1997) is being re-released in 2012.
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Post by Flowgli on Sept 19, 2011 7:41:12 GMT -5
I remember seeing this movie in theaters when it was originally released 17 years ago. I just went to see it theatrically again last night, and it was really cool seeing it in 3D.
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Post by babclayman on Sept 19, 2011 7:45:26 GMT -5
I think the reason they made it 3D was so they could charge you more money to see it in the Cinema, hence make more money.
3D Has sort of become a gimmick in the world of Cinema today, saying that “It’s in 3D, Meaning it’s completely different.” So which I can counter with, “Just because you can make it 3D, Doesn’t mean that you should or that it is necessary to…”
Although, I do wish that Disney would loosen up on LK a bit and give more of their films a chance. They got over fifty animated movies, show those to the Public!
With me, “101 Dalmatians” seems more deserving of Re-Release in Cinema, because, hey, it is the Fiftieth Anniversary, they got better reason! Although, it did get one, somewhat, in Disney Downtown, to which I am told was a completely full house. X3 I am sure there are some scenes in that, to which Disney would probably adapt to 3D, like Pongo & Perdita fighting Horace & Jasper or the Car Chase or even the Countryside Sceneries around it.
Although, I did go to see a Back To The Future Re-Release in the Cinema, a year ago, but they didn’t pointlessly make it 3D, thank heavens.
You think, 3D is becoming a gimmick, Pups? O.O
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Post by Shadow Dearly on Sept 24, 2011 23:51:16 GMT -5
I agree with everything except for what you said about 101 Dalmatians Babclayman.
One...you said they should loosen up on the Lion King, I think they should loosen up on 101 Dalmatians as well, which I think they did after the re-release of 101D II Patch's London Adventure on DVD in 2008.
I for one do not think that 101 Dalmatians deserve to get 3D, I mean it had scenes that seemed to scary for young children, not to mention it showed smoking, Particularly with Cruella de Vil and Roger Radcliffe. For Example, have the movie in 3D when Roger smokes on his pipe and it's like the puffs of smoke are popping out right at ya. Now is that a good message to send to people particularly children and teenagers in that particular scene? That Smoking is cool?
But anyway, yeah, 3D is like a gimmick now
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Post by Belchic on Sept 25, 2011 16:03:40 GMT -5
For crying out loud, bab! Will you stop being a fanboy already? Your opinion is very much respected, but your opinion is NOT the only one that matters, you know!
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Post by babclayman on Sept 25, 2011 16:07:50 GMT -5
My Opinion, Belchic. No need to snap at me because of it. Besides, I did have a Real reason for calling it's re-release.
Respect mine, And I'll respect yours.
Fair enough, Belchic? X3
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Post by Nemo on Sept 25, 2011 16:13:39 GMT -5
I actually think that TLK deserves to be in 3D since well... it did so well. This is the first time Disney has done anything TLK related in a very.. very long time. I'm actually debating on going to see it... maybe tomorrow if I get free time after class.
Does 101D deserve it? Why not? I think it deserves a chance.
And I do agree that 3D has become a gimmick now with movies. I remember seeing TS3 in 3D.. and there was NO 3D effects at all in it =/ the commercials had more!
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Post by Trey_Vore on Sept 26, 2011 4:03:59 GMT -5
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Post by Trey_Vore on Sept 28, 2011 5:07:12 GMT -5
I'm sure that a lot of you may remember the thread of multi-language reels for "Can You Feel the Love Tonight". sparkydearly.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=music&thread=5235&page=1#90517I managed to find the 16-bit instrumental incarnations of it! Here's the SNES game version: And here's the Game Gear version: Still sounds great! To tell the truth I think the Game Gear game music sounds like it could make some nice music for what you are taking a bath, you should hear "Hakuna Matata"!
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