After his success with The Jungle Book, Jon Favreau has been hired by Disney to work on the CG-Action remake of the animated classic, The Lion King. Everyone who grew up in the 90s knew that Scar and Mufasa were brothers, but the remake could be looking to change that relationship.
Talking with Hello Giggles, producer Don Hahn comments:
"[While making the movie] we talked about the fact that it was very likely [Scar and Mufasa] would not have both the same parents. The way lions operate in the wild, when the male lion gets old, another rogue lion comes and kills the head of the pride. What that does is it causes the female lions to go into heat [to reproduce], and then the new younger lion kills the king and then he kills all the babies. Now he's the new lion that's running the pride.
There was always this thing about well, how do you have these two [male] lions? Occasionally there are prides that do have two male lions, in an interesting dynamic because they're not equals [since they don't have the same parents]. One lion will always kind of be off in the shadows. We were trying to use those animal truths to underpin the story so we sort of figured Scar and Mufasa couldn't really be from the same gene pool."
From a fan perspective, I would rather much prefer if Mufasa and Scar really were brothers; that way it makes Scar much more despicable, and his murder of Mufasa much more devastating. Also, since The Lion King is a loose adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet (where a man murders his brother to become king), Scar not being related just throws that comparison out the window.
I'm not really in any position to tell Disney what to do with its movies, but if I'm already thinking this was a questionable move, some other fans are thinking it as well. Let's just hope Jon Favreau knows what he's doing.
The Lion King remake is set to come out July 19, 2019.
See Also: Creators Of The Original Lion King Comment On Disney's CG-Action Remake
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