Thoughts?

I mean I guess.

i hate my mom?

My only thought is that I don't understand why they're calling it live action. Why not just photorealistic or something?

>>93779930
STOP

>>93779930
Sure, why not.

>>93779930
Can't wait to hear Zazu telling Scar to run for king as a joke and tell everyone it's the current year.

>>93779958
Because they're literally filming live animals acting together on a set

>>93779930
Politics aside, his voice works

Look, I like John Oliver. I like Seth Rogen. I like Donald Glover.

But WHY did this remake need to exist?

>>93779930
WHY......why is there a live action Lion King....everyone WAS ANIMALSs.....meaning CGI, so what'll get are a bnch of cgi live actiony looking characters walking around in filmed locations at best.

>>93779930
I'm mostly thinking /tv/ would be interested.

>>93779930
Hopefully the writers for this movie are more talented than the writers for his own show.

>>93779989

Other than Donald Glover, I can't understand your taste at all.

>>93779982
This. His personality means very little. An actor literally takes on an entirely new persona anyway.

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I don't like him very much!

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>>93779930
>They cast a shrill uppity Brit to play a shrill uppity Brit
Makes sense
>>93779989
Money.
>Pumba will do the Seth Rogen laugh

>>93779973
>tell everyone it's the current year.
If it wasn't for the fact I've overheard my coworker watching John, I'd say you were being overly dramatic. What scares me is his audience falling over themselves with laughter, even when he does absolutely nothing. Are they drugging those people?

>>93780055
It's more about the delivery m8.

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>>93779930
At long last I have an excuse to post this

>>93779989
>>93779992
I need photos.

>>93779930
>Oliver sounds like a smug cunt
>Zazu is a smug bird cunt
Proper voice for the act? Seems like a good match.

>>93779930
>live action Lion King

Literally how?
There aren't any people in it.

>>93780118
>broadway dont work

this is why i need pics

They're doing all their 90s movies for nostalgia money.

>>93780118
They just get real lions and hyenas.

>>93780066
>Live Action Hermione & the Beast made MOAR money than the original animated Disney flick.
Adjusted for inflation?

>>93779973
>tell everyone it's the current year.

Did he ever actually do that? The only evidence I was able to find of him saying "it's 2015" was in a completely different context than what it's memed about. I wonder if it's something /pol/ exaggerated/fabricated just like how Colbert never actually said anything about two scoops.

>>93779930
Rowan atkinson is still alive though?

Oh, so I guess in this movie Zazu will be all for letting the hyenas invade the Pridelands.

John Oliver is funny and good, even if the CURRENT YEAR shit and the HOW IS THIS STILL A THING segments are embarrassing, I still appreciate his and his crew's dedication (and HBO's permissiveness) top taking some dumb stunt to its extreme.

>>93779930
thank god it's animated
poor kids don't have to look at his face

Why are they recasting everyone but James Earl Jones?

>>93780174
He does it a lot in his videos. "I mean, it's (CURRENT YEAR), enough is enough It's time to pass (POINT OF VIDEO) laws!" sort of statements.

>>93780055
you know live audiences are coached on when to laugh, clap, and boo right?

>>93779930
THE KING IS A RACIST ARSEHOLE BECAUSE HE TOLD HIS SON NOT TO GO NEAR THE BADLANDS!

HE'S A BIGOT WHO HATES HYENAS!!!

DONALD TRUMP!!!!! CURRENT YEAR!!!!!!!!!!

>>93779930
I still think the whole idea behind it is dumb but, yeah, I kinda see it.

Honestly. Kinda fitting.

>>93779989
>But WHY did this remake need to exist?
Look up how Maleficent, Jungle Book and BatB did financially and you'll see

>>93780174
People use THE CURRENT YEAR so they don't have to make new images every year. John Oliver's argument a lot of the time was "Come on, it's [the current year], we should really be above all this [thing he disagrees with]".

>>93779989
Because Disney needs
a) That guaranteed nostalgia money featuring current popular celebrities
b) Too remind everyone that they own these franchises and you should buy the merchandise

>>93780271
>Strawmanning your politics onto The Lion King of all things.

You have to go back.

>>93780231
Because it's jame earl jones, who the fuck you gonna recast? Laurence fishburne?

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>mfw the /pol/ invasion that results from this

>>93779930
Actually, while i hate him i believe he does have a cartoony voice that can work

>>93779973
>Can't wait to hear Zazu telling Scar to run for king as a joke
That would be hilarious, never happening. They could at least add a line like:
>You'll never be king, Scar.

>>93780271
I mean...what the fuck Mufasa? Hyenas perform an important part of the ecosystem and you leave them to starve in a elephant graveyard? How do you think the elephants feel about that?

so is this gonna be some Milo and Otis shit where it's all psychic dialogue or are we doing full on peanut butter in the lion's jowls to get their mouths moving for the lines?

>>93780196
All these years, I can't believe I ever realised it was him.
I don't think my brain can understand the idea of Atkinson being in an american film.

>>93780174
its more a context of the meme like look how progressive we are this happened this year or during this time

>>93780134
I would fucking love if it ends up being a bunch of people running around in costume. Shit be gold.

>>93780384

It's not really live action, let's be real here. It's gonna be all CG animals.

>>93779989
Because Jungle Book and Beauty and the Beast made mega money at the box office and, well do the maths.

Lion King = Highest Grossing Animated Movie of all Time (Until Frozen and FUCKING MINIONS took that spot) X Live-Action Box Office of Live Action Remakes of Jungle Book and Beauty and Beast = Disney Swimming in Cash Scrooge McDuck style.

>>93780348
>muh comblr hugbox

Have sex

>>93779930
two scoops simba?
TWO SCOOPS?

>>93780302
The Maleficent part pisses me off. BatB and Jungle Book were fine, even if there were some changes I didn't like, but holy shit Maleficent actually offended me with how fucking bad of a movie it was.

>>93779979
Like Homeward Bound? Man I cannot wait for the leaked footage of some grip getting mauled by hyenas.

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>>93779930
>Live action Lion King
THAT IS JUST FUCKING STUPID!

>>93779979

Yeah, bullshit. There's no way in hell they'd get away with something like that nowadays.

>>93780484
>I cannot wait for the leaked footage of some grip getting gang-raped by lady hyenas

Me too anon, me too.

>>93779930
Why not? Even if you don't like his show he's a solid comic performer and Disney isn't going to be giving him a script based on last weeks news events.

>>93780174
He does say it.
Way less that /pol/ would have you believe, but still semi often.

>>93780196
>Mr. Bean was the Original Zazu
Holy shit I never even realized.

>>93780174
I think he said it once on some other late night talk show he was a guest on, but in his actual show he never said it. He's just associated with it because it's an argument a person like him would use

>>93780196
I guarantee you Jim Cummings won't be Pooh in that upcoming remake either.

>>93780521
It's filmmaking magic that fools your senses, actually.

You think the animals are actually talking, but really they just put peanut butter in their mouths to make them look like they're talking.

>>93780348

Is that pic real?

>>93779989
>Seth Rogen
he's in this?
Don't tell me: Pumbaa?

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Elba as Scar
Thoughts?

>>93780893
Jeffrey Wright is my first choice for Scar but Elba would be fantastic too.

>>93780701
You called it, anon. One of the guys from Parks and Rec is playing Timon.

>>93779930
I like John, but why couldn't they just get Rowan Atkinson again?

>>93780995
Aziz? Or Jean-Ralphio?

>>93780893
He was already Shere Khan in The Jungle Book.

>>93781505
Nah, it's that guy who played Middlebrooks. Billy Eichner, I recall.

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>>93779989
>But WHY did this remake need to exist?
Didn't you get the memo? If it's not a remake, a reboot, a reimagining, a sequel, a prequel or part of a cinematic universe, it's too risky and not worth investing in.

>>93780381
Yeah what was Mufasa's beef with the hyenas?

>>93779989
>why does a remake of one of Disney's highest grossest films need to be made

It's like you expect Disney to not be greedy or something.

>>93779930
it IS the current year

>>93780335
everything is sexist, homosexual and ethnophobic you have to send them all back to pole

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>>93779944

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>>93779992
>what'll get are a bnch of cgi live actiony looking characters walking around in filmed locations at best.

So, Dinosaur?

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>>93780583
> Edmond Blackadder was Zazu
Yeah, makes sense.

>>93781674
Then how come Zootopia grossed a billion?

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>>93781693
He hooked up with one at a savanna bar in college but when he brought "her" to his room he realized "she" had a penis. From that day forward every time he heard a hyena laugh he thought they were laughing at him and thinking he was a faggot so when he became king he banished the lot of them to the badlands

>>93781790
Zootopia is just a reimagining of every cliche interracial buddy cop movies ever made.

>>93781795
DEEPEST. LORE.

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>>93779930
Well he is a annoying yapping bird who can't think for himself.

ALRIGHT
LET'S TALK ABOUT TRIBE LEADER SCAR
I MEAN, SERIOUSLY TRIBE LEADER SCAR?
IT'S THE CURRENT CIRCLE OF LIFE
KILLING TRIBE LEADER MUFASA IN THE CURRENT CIRCLE OF LIFE?
BUT IT'S THE CURRENT CIRCLE OF LIFE

>>93781795
those hyenas are transphobic
all they needed to do was to change genders

>>93781901
That's not even a pun, Carlos. Hell, it's not even a properly constructed sentence.

>>93779930
>Thoughts

That a Lion King remake should be based on the stage show.

>>93781990
You mean Hamlet?

>>93781990
Ain't nobody got time for African Tribe Hamlet

>>93779955
this is how he's going to deliver every line?

>>93779930
Very much a step down from Rowan Atkinson

>>93779930
How dare a white male (and a straight one no less), accept a role in a production where all the characters are AFRICAN. How long is this kind of garbage going to persist? I mean come on, it's the CURRENT FUCKING YEAR.

>>93779930
i mean yeah short of just hiring Rowan Atkinson again, it's not like it's the worst pick

>>93781653
Oh jeezus.

>>93779930
>replace great British comedian with shitty American comedian

What did they mean by this?

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>>93780174
My favorite moment in the show was at the end of 2016, after Trump and Brexit, he actually decided to destroy the current year in effigy.
>tfw its no longer 2015

>>93780461
>Have sex

Fuck off normalfag

>>93780174
He actually said "congratulations on your white penis." He memes himself.

>>93781751
>3-D movies that weren't Pixar or Dreamworks used to do terribly while 2-D dominated the cartoon scene
>Now it's the reverse
I really miss those days...

>>93779930
>Current comedian does character in a Disney movie

Oh wow, so glad you made this thread Anon

>>93779989
So does this push back how long it takes for the original Lion King to become public domain?

>>93779930
>someone i disagree with politically is being cast in a thing
i can't complain about this because that would make me just as bad as the neogaf cunts who got jontron cut out of yooka laylee. let the guy voice a cgi bird, who cares.

>>93782378
Yeah, that's not going to age horribly at all.

>>93779930
What was wrong with Peewee Herman?

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>>93779930
But, Mister Bean is still alive. Why not just get him to play the CGI bird?

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>>93782980
Nothing. Nothing was wrong with Pee-Wee Herman, but some Jewish feminist reporter by the name fucked him over to advance in her career.

>>93782958
he does a weekly news comedy show, I don't think he's particularly concerned with the rewatchability of episodes

>>93783006
the entire original cast is still alive and all the characters are CGI animals

Lion King is perhaps the most nonsensical "live action" remake possible

>>93780671
Nah, cartoons are made atleast one year in before it's got on tv, and Nickelodeon cartoons atelast 2 years before

>>93779958
cuz people are stupid

>VAs are still alive
>Replace them

Y

>>93783377
the real question is if they're dumb enough to replace James Earl Jones and Nathan Lane

>>93783377
Because that would only further emphasize how needless this shit is in the first place.

If they did hire the original VA's, then why not just recycle their old lines and animate them in 3D?

>>93783413
Nathan Lane is already replaced.

Can't have Seth Rogan paired with an old actor.

>>93779930
>There's one in every family sire - two in mine actually ,fuck Trump
what they mean by this?

>>93783506
so they really are that dumb

>>93783113
Nigga they caught him whacking it in a porno theater.

>>93779930
Why not just use Rowan Atkinson again?

>>93779930
IT'S 2017 AFTER ALL!

>>93779930
HOW COME MUFASA GETS TWO ANTELOPE WHEN EVERYONE ELSE GETS ONE!?

>>93779930
I'm never going to watch it, I've hated this guy since he first appeared on the daily show.

>>93783506
Rogen being involved kind of sealed it for me. I can't stand him in anything so even if the rest of the movie is great I don't want to watch anything with Seth Rogen in it.

>>93783540
Isn't that the entire point of a porn theater?
What's next? Getting caught eating junk food at McDonalds?

>>93783562
Fuck you, I laughed

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>>93783600
>someone who has clearly never been to a porno theater trying to tell me what the point of a porno theater is

>>93779989
Because it's the current year

>>93781795
Female spotted hyenas do have penises though (Elongated clits actually)

>Listen Simba. It's CURRENT YEAR!

>>93779979
Reusing old footage from Wild Kingdom with poor lip sync.

>>93783540
>Nigga they caught him whacking it in a porno theater.
What the hell do you think people are suppose to do in porn theaters exactly?
Applaud?

>>93783698
Watch porn. It's like asking if you're allowed to fuck the strippers.

>>93779989
>Look, I like John Oliver. I like Seth Rogen. I like Donald Glover.
your taste confuses me

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>>93780417
Reuse what's already on hand.

>>93780388
>he hasn't seen Rat Race

>>93783739
Well, technically you're allowed to.

Just not on stage or the club.

>>93783626
Masturbatory pursuits while watching porn?

>>93779989
Because Disney is creatively bankrupt and audiences will eat anything, even shit, if it has the mouse logo slapped on it.

>>93783664
So Dildos or full mast T-Girls. What's the preference?

>>93783789
Yeah, just like you're technically allowed to jerk off to the memory of the porn you watched in the privacy of your own home.

What I don't get is why they have to make live action remakes in the first place.

What, Disney can't think up a few original ideas to do?

>>93783664
Isn't that to have male hyenas, the female has to up her estrogen production, so they get body builder clits?

>>93783847
Their box office returns of late say they don't need to be original anymore.

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>>93783739
>It's like asking if you're allowed to fuck the strippers.

>he doesn't know

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>>93780174
TWO SCOOPS?!

>>93780055
If you've been to some live taping you know the audience is coached and encoyraged to laugh, clap, and shit at beats like zombies. I've been to some and even found myself doing it when I didn't think shit was worth laughing or clapping...it's not about the show.

>>93783739
You are expected to jerk off at porn theaters.

>>93779930
He does look like a bird.

>>93783113
How do feminists and liberals suddenly came to hate sex?

>>93781795
Female hyenas have penises though which is probably why the zookeepers didn't realize.

>>93779930
shoo shoo slimey limey

>>93783626
You mean people go to a porno theater simply for the platonic pleasure of enjoying avant-garde underground cinema and nothing else?

>>93783967
They hate straight white males getting any sexual satisfaction

That's what the "men should feel a cold stab of fear before any sexual encounter" feminists want.

>>93779930
Why, though?

Don't they know what year it is?

>>93782122
no?

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>>93783540

He was caught fapping at an X -Rated movie theater while visiting his parents in Sarasota, Florida. It's the X-Rated theater he was also arrested at once as a kid before he became rich and famous.

At the time Sarasota, Florida was a sleepy little place for old retired Jew people so police officers spent a lot of time hanging around X-rated movie theaters in hopes of catching guys fapping so they could arrest them, and make some money for the state.
They would also hang out at the beach and arrest woman for wearing thong bikinis at the beach for "Indecent Exposure" I'm not even kidding they actually did that to make their arrest quotas for the month.

Sarasota Police also arrested a guy that day for selling rap music in his store. Selling rap music to teens was considered a FELONY in the early 90s

You can confirm everything I've said here in this video. Just skip to the 25:23 mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiJ2XNfU9zE&t=1917s

>>93780329
Nah it's more like
>"Come on, it's [the current year], we should really be above all this [neanderthalian retardation]".
I mean at a certain point there's not much reason to make arguments when certain people don't listen to or care about good arguments, so it's best to keep it simple and remind them they're living in the past and so are their beliefs.

>>93779930
Is Rowan Atkinson dead?

>>93784404

Can you believe that there are still people who don't get off to watching their wives fuck other men?

I mean COME ON, it's 2017!

>>93784450
Who are you quoting?

>>93784473
John "I'll Be In The Shed" Oliver

>>93780302
The Jungle Book did markedly well? Absolutely nobody talked about it.

>>93781912
>THE CURRENT CIRCLE OF LIFE
Circular time is a Jungian concept. Because of their insistence that the future is always objectively better than the past, liberals hate this concept without even knowing it.

>>93779930
Why the recast it's not like any of the original actors are not around?

I read the OP and wondered how John Oliver could play a bird in a live action film.

Then I realized I was retarded.

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>>93779930
>Live action film
>Of a previously animated film
>With lions
>That will obviously be animated with CG

>>93780995
Why not Nathan Lane? He's still alive right?

>>93784668
>Circular time is a Jungian concept
No it's not.

>>93779930
I think he would actually fit pretty well.

>>93780342
>Laurence fishburne?

That would be fucking hilarious.

>>93784607
It was 50 million away from a billion dollars

>>93779930
He's kinda got the snarky, slightly obnoxious British accent so I don't think it's a terrible choice despite people's views on him.

>>93780174
He says it but rarely.
It's not helped that there is (or was) as semi-recurring segment of the show called "How is this still a thing" or something similar, which in a sense is basically going IT'S CURRENT YEAR

>>93783740
Why can't someone like different flavors of comedy?

>>93783995
You'd think a place with "experts" would have realized before a year.

>>93779930
type casting

>>93780417
>>93781990
This.

>>93787493
John Oliver is a comedian?

>>93780502
It will make a SHIT TON of money, anon. It's not stupid at all.

>>93787599
It was his job before he became basically a pundit, and much like Jon Stewart he's less left leaning when not on show (granted he's pretty firmly in the left whereas Stewart was leftleaning centralist)