We covered 50 lions at first. I mean, that\u2019s how it works. You start by covering many, many storylines. What people will see is one tiny fraction of what we actually filmed. A lion\u2019s life is for the most part uneventful. When it is eventful, it\u2019s very, very compelling\u2014but there is a lot of sleeping and resting and walking. It\u2019s almost like reality television, where you\u2019re following a lot of different storylines, and then in retrospect, we get to curate that. We looked at all four years of footage and then figured out the story that emerged, but Kio was compelling from the beginning because he\u2019s just so adorable and had an uncanny resemblance to the way we depicted our lead lion in the CG Lion King. Also, to be honest with you, it\u2019s easy to identify and empathize with a younger animal because, visually, they just make you just want to stare at them.<\/p>\n
You do catch that lions sleep a lot, and I don\u2019t think I’ve ever seen a nature documentary where they show how many flies are just sitting on their face.<\/p>\n
Yeah, it\u2019s tricky. We could have easily decided to bring it into one of the inexpensive CG tools and clean it up, but we made the decision that in this moment in time, making that commitment to showing things authentically feels like it might be appreciated.<\/p>\n
Of course, the score feels like a touch of Hollywood.<\/p>\n
Part of my job is always understanding the journey the audience is going on as I film something, write something, edit something, or score something. Showing it to [composer] Hans Zimmer, who has even more experience\u2014he\u2019s someone who\u2019s been involved not just with filmmaking but specifically The Lion King story, from the original animated film through the theatrical production and collaborating with us on on our film. I showed it to him, and he felt it immediately. So he was involved for many years, watching the footage and seeing where it led. And you know, it\u2019s like following a sports team: You don’t know what’s going to happen, you\u2019re rooting for things to happen, but you have no control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We covered 50 lions at first. I mean, that\u2019s how it works. You start by covering many, many…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[268215,85,46,150052,268217,125958,268216,141,174352,386],"class_list":["post-592858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-disneys-lion","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jon-favreau","tag-jon-favreau-the-lion-king","tag-lion","tag-lion-director-jon-favreau","tag-science","tag-the-lion-king","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}