Comments on: Jon Favreau Plans to Shoot ‘The Lion King’ and ‘Jungle Book 2’ Back-to-Back https://www.rotoscopers.com/2016/12/14/jon-favreau-plans-to-shoot-the-lion-king-and-jungle-book-2-back-to-back/ Animation News, Reviews, Interviews, Podcasts & Videos! Sun, 15 Jan 2017 06:58:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 By: CarFan https://www.rotoscopers.com/2016/12/14/jon-favreau-plans-to-shoot-the-lion-king-and-jungle-book-2-back-to-back/#comment-32015 Sun, 18 Dec 2016 08:16:00 +0000 http://rotoscopers.com/?p=42266#comment-32015 I’m not bitter over Disney making these live-action films. It more or less depends on the film. I was fine with them remaking Jungle Book and Pete’s Dragon because the original versions of those films came out years ago and they weren’t that good. Never saw the 1977 Pete’s Dragon, but the reviews were very mediocre. I did see the original Jungle Book and it was very cute with catchy songs, but that was it. So the remakes of these had a very good opportunity to redo and improve the stories, in which they did. But with Lion King, it’s different because that only came out a little over 20 years ago and that was a masterpiece in the eyes of most people. How can Favreau improve that? It doesn’t seem necessary to be made and I feel Disney is doing this exclusively for money. Overall, I’m looking forward Jungle Book 2, I’d love to see more with Mowgli. As for LK, I’m skeptical.

]]> By: Manuel Orozco https://www.rotoscopers.com/2016/12/14/jon-favreau-plans-to-shoot-the-lion-king-and-jungle-book-2-back-to-back/#comment-31927 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 17:43:00 +0000 http://rotoscopers.com/?p=42266#comment-31927 In reply to Phin68.

And the fact that Mowgli is the only live action character is why I did not bother to see the new Jungle Book.

]]> By: brandon https://www.rotoscopers.com/2016/12/14/jon-favreau-plans-to-shoot-the-lion-king-and-jungle-book-2-back-to-back/#comment-31926 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 15:45:00 +0000 http://rotoscopers.com/?p=42266#comment-31926 In reply to Phin68.

See my comment below about films like this ‘blurring the lines’.

]]> By: Phin68 https://www.rotoscopers.com/2016/12/14/jon-favreau-plans-to-shoot-the-lion-king-and-jungle-book-2-back-to-back/#comment-31925 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 15:10:00 +0000 http://rotoscopers.com/?p=42266#comment-31925 In reply to brandon.

But that’s the thing: the boy is live-action. That’s why the Jungle Book could get away with being called a live-action movie. The Lion King doesn’t have that element in it, and therefore makes it an animated movie.

]]> By: Rachel Wagner https://www.rotoscopers.com/2016/12/14/jon-favreau-plans-to-shoot-the-lion-king-and-jungle-book-2-back-to-back/#comment-31924 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:04:00 +0000 http://rotoscopers.com/?p=42266#comment-31924 I guess I’m not that excited about photo-realism over actual art but I liked Jungle Book fine so hopefully these will be good

]]> By: brandon https://www.rotoscopers.com/2016/12/14/jon-favreau-plans-to-shoot-the-lion-king-and-jungle-book-2-back-to-back/#comment-31919 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 01:30:00 +0000 http://rotoscopers.com/?p=42266#comment-31919 In reply to Dean.

Fair enough. With films like Jungle Book and now this Lion King blurring the lines, I’m not surprised that people are now scrambling to nail down a rigid definition for what these films are.

]]> By: Manuel Orozco https://www.rotoscopers.com/2016/12/14/jon-favreau-plans-to-shoot-the-lion-king-and-jungle-book-2-back-to-back/#comment-31918 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:42:00 +0000 http://rotoscopers.com/?p=42266#comment-31918 In reply to Dean.

Never mind what I said

]]> By: Dean https://www.rotoscopers.com/2016/12/14/jon-favreau-plans-to-shoot-the-lion-king-and-jungle-book-2-back-to-back/#comment-31917 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:41:00 +0000 http://rotoscopers.com/?p=42266#comment-31917 In reply to Manuel Orozco.

Jungle Book has a different tone and feel than the original. It’s more serious and there is more conflict. I suggest at least giving it a rental. Also, don’t base movie-watching decisions on childhood fears. A lot of “scary” movies I watched as a kid don’t bother me anymore.

]]> By: Dean https://www.rotoscopers.com/2016/12/14/jon-favreau-plans-to-shoot-the-lion-king-and-jungle-book-2-back-to-back/#comment-31916 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:34:00 +0000 http://rotoscopers.com/?p=42266#comment-31916 In reply to brandon.

Photorealistic CGI =/= Live-Action. Else movies like Beowulf (2007) would be considered live-action.

]]> By: brandon https://www.rotoscopers.com/2016/12/14/jon-favreau-plans-to-shoot-the-lion-king-and-jungle-book-2-back-to-back/#comment-31912 Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:48:00 +0000 http://rotoscopers.com/?p=42266#comment-31912 In reply to Phin68.

The beauty of motion-capture performances. Also, yet again, The Jungle Book was mostly devoid of humans (save for one little boy), so a live-action movie with no humans isn’t too big of a jump. Especially if, like Favreau, you are thinking long and hard about what the visual aesthetic of a ‘photorealistic CG’ Lion King should look like.

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