{"id":138636,"date":"2019-04-20T10:03:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T16:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138636"},"modified":"2019-04-20T10:03:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T16:03:01","slug":"so-tell-me-again-why-we-have-a-new-kinda-live-action-lion-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/20\/so-tell-me-again-why-we-have-a-new-kinda-live-action-lion-king.html","title":{"rendered":"So, tell me again why we have a new kinda-live-action &#8220;Lion King&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That is, besides the fact that it will make Disney massive amounts of money. Which I don&#8217;t begrudge them because, well, they&#8217;re making something that people will spend money on because they want it.<\/p>\n<p>I just don&#8217;t quite get it myself. I like the original just fine. The trailer shows some (mostly) very impressive CG, and looks to be a faithful rendition of the &#8220;original,&#8221; but &#8230; nothing that makes me want to shell out theater prices. Or, honestly, even video prices. Maybe, at some point, streaming prices, but nowhere near the top of my list.<\/p>\n<p>I guess what I&#8217;d like to see with these live-action remakes, if not a shot-for-shot of the original (purely from a technical perspective), is something that actually reshapes the story along the way. Gives it a new perspective. Alters the tone, or the focal lesson, something. Justifies a remake artistically, not just financially.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s likely the last thing Disney would ever do, because changing things artistically would possibly endanger that financially part of the equation. It would just make me feel better.<\/p>\n<p>Still, pretty. They&#8217;re still struggling with having animals &#8220;talk&#8221; in a consistently non-uncanny-valley fashion, but pretty.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7TavVZMewpY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides the obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,263,41],"tags":[903,1835],"class_list":["post-138636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-cartoons","category-disney","category-media-movies","tag-disney","tag-lionking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137840,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/17\/disney-is-considering-a-live-action-remake-of-nightmare-before-christmas.html","url_meta":{"origin":138636,"position":0},"title":"Disney is considering a live-action remake of &quot;Nightmare Before Christmas&quot;?","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 17-Feb-19 11:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"WHY?!Well, the obvious answer is \"to make money,\" and, to be fair, as long as people continue to shell out for the mixed bag of Disney's current cycles of live-action remakes, they will continue to crank them out.But NbC seems an extraordinarily odd choice for such consideration, if true. 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