Mufasa’s Final Trailer Brings the Future Band Together

The 2019 Lion King remake was a large container bureau deed for Disney, but it was inactive astonishing to perceive it was being followed up with a prequel. If you loved the archetypal remake’s sweeping vistas and beautiful, photorealistic lions, Mufasa aims to supply much of that—and with the movie present implicit a period out, here’s 1 last trailer courtesy of this weekend’s D23 lawsuit successful Brazil.

Told arsenic a communicative by Rafiki to Simba and Nala’s girl Kiara, the movie centers connected a young big mentation of Mufasa (Aaron Pierre), who starts retired present arsenic an orphan cub who crosses paths with a pridefulness of lions and their young son, Taka (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), the aboriginal Scar. Taka’s adjacent successful enactment to regularisation implicit Pride Rock, and since he’s ever wanted a brother, he’s much than blessed to get his parents to adhd the orphan into his family.

Years later, the boys’ pridefulness becomes tangled successful a warfare with a radical of achromatic lions led by Mads Mikkelsen’s Kiros, who’s got aims to instrumentality power of Pride Rock for his  ain ends. With their household defeated, it falls to the 2 brothers to lick their wounds and effort to halt the achromatic lions. During their adventure, they brushwood furry shoulders with different young Lion King characters similar the aforementioned Rafiki, aboriginal majordomo Zazu (Preston Nyman), and Sarabi (Tiffany Boone), who yet becomes Mufasa’s wife. And with each person helium meets, Mufasa comes much into his ain arsenic a person his radical need. Wonder however Taka feels astir that…

The caller trailer is simply a batch similar the first, filled with brotherly bonding and hopeless escapes, and immoderate teases of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s archetypal music. Whatever you deliberation astir the expressions of the animals themselves, they inactive look beauteous large conscionable arsenic photorealisitic creations connected their own. But volition everything travel unneurotic for it to beryllium much than 2024’s 2nd origin story astir 2 brothers being driven apart? We’ll find retired erstwhile Mufasa: The Lion King hits theaters connected December 20.

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