The re-telling of the 1994 tale about the lion cub Simba, which opens in theaters around the world this week, was created with computer animation, gaming technology and virtual reality, plus live-action filmmaking techniques, director Jon Favreau said.
“When you are dealing with something like ‘The Lion King,’ which we consider a crown jewel, there’s a challenge to that,” he said. Besides using new technology, filmmakers revise storylines to make them feel relatable to modern moviegoers, he said.“You wouldn’t say to your grandmother ‘don’t tell me that story when everybody came from Texas to Oklahoma,’” said Alfre Woodard, who voices the lioness Sarabi. “It’s like ‘tell it to me again.
Box office experts have said it has a shot at topping the $2.8 billion hauled in by 2009’s “Avatar,” the highest-grossing movie of all time.
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