In the film, Mufasa and Scar are shown to not be related by royal blood, despite prior films stating otherwise. InThe Lion King (1994), Scar was initially written to not have any blood relation to Mufasa before the writers ultimately decided to make the two characters brothers, as they fel...
Thecast ofMufasa: The Lion Kingwill see some new voice actors playing younger versions of characters fromThe Lion King. While James Earl Jones(Star Wars)played Mufasa in both the original animatedThe Lion Kingand its live-action remake,the role of young Mufasa will be passed on to Aaron Pi...
Mufasa is the major character of Disney's 1994 animated feature film The Lion King. He was a large, powerful lion who once served as king of the Pride Lands. Revered as a wise and noble leader, Mufasa dedicated his reign to upholding the “circle of life
He was also a sought-after voice actor, expressing the villainy of Darth Vader (“No, I am your father,” commonly misremembered as “Luke, I am your father”), as well as the benign dignity of King Mufasa in both the 1994 and 2019 versions of Disney's “The Lion King” and announ...
When Aaron Pierre was cast as Mufasa, the weight of following in the late James Earl Jones’ legendary footsteps was enough to rattle any actor.
Jones was the only member of The Lion King's original voice cast to retain his role for the movie's remake in 2019. Another fan described the actor "a class act" and "one of my all-time favourites." They added: "RIP James Earl Jones. You will be missed....
“we gotta go home”—the line that, at least for this writer, reliably sparks tears every time. the main thing that’s missing in the remake’s version, though, is expression. young voice actor jd mccrary imbues simba’s lines with a hoarse emotion similar to that of the original ...
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The actor and Lucas had disagreements about how he should voice the villainous Vader. “I wanted to make Darth Vader more interesting, more subtle, more psychologically oriented,” Jonessaid. “He (Lucas) said, ‘No, no … you’ve got to keep his voice on a very narrow band of inflectio...