The director of ‘The Lion King: Mufasa’ gets upset and gets involved in networks defending the film

It is one of Disney’s big bets for the end of the year (December 20 in theaters), but many talk about it as the film that no one asked for. ‘The Lion King: Mufasa’ is the company’s new live action and an unexpected prequel to the story of Simba which will tell the story of his father and Scar when they were both younger and did not yet rule the savannah.

Despite how good its first trailer looks, many of the followers of the original story have charged against what they consider “a quarter punch” and have held its director responsible (the laureate responsible for ‘Moonlight’, the film that took the Oscar from ‘La La Land’, and winner of two statuettes for best original and adapted screenplay, one precisely for ‘Moonlight’ and another for ‘The Beale Street Blues’). So much so that the poor guy has ended up responding to the criticism and making everything worse.

Everything was triggered by the comment of an X user who wrote the following: “Barry, You’re too good and talented to join Bob Iger’s soulless machine. (current CEO of Disney).” An allusion to which the director was quick to jump in and reply. “There is nothing soulless in ‘The Lion King’. For decades, children have sat in movie theaters around the world to experience loss for the first timethus interacting with Shakespeare for the first time in all countries and languages. “It has been a great source of empathy among people.”

Far from ending there, the discussion it got even more muddy when another user responded to said response: “Come on, man. I interviewed you back in the day on the occasion of ‘Moonlight’ and that Barry Jenkins would never have said what you just said. Can make a disney movie for the check and to finance your next exciting projects, but You don’t have to lower yourself like that either.”. A comment that the director would not pass up either:

“Bro, what kind of logic is that? Let’s see what you think of this. Here are some videos of that Barry Jenkins that you interviewed and that you talk about. “Things he was doing at the same time he was writing ‘Moonlight.’” (Next, the director linked to an endless string of projects in which he attended talks at schools, supervised short films by newbies and participated in wedding videos and experimental projects, almost all of them with children). “

“Children have occupied a prominent place in each and every one of my projects. since ‘Moonlight’, without exception. It’s like… bro, you can say whatever you want about the movie, but… telling me that I’m lying and that This is not meaningful to me because it is for children.? No brother”.

The discussion has not gone any further, but the accusations of “soulless” and “unnecessary” are a recurring ghost for Disney live action, which are not few in recent times. It remains to be seen how their film defends itself when it is released and if the experience is truly worth it.

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And these are the ones on the way:

To the last ‘Hercules’ could be added very soonfor which there are already two directors running: David Benioff and DB Weiss (the culprits of the war crimes committed against ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘The Three Body Problem’).