Mufasa’s Closing Trailer Brings the Future Band Collectively

The 2019 Lion King remake was an enormous field workplace hit for Disney, however it was nonetheless shocking to listen to it was being adopted up with a prequel. Should you beloved the primary remake’s sweeping vistas and delightful, photorealistic lions, Mufasa goals to supply extra of that—and with the movie now over a month out, right here’s one closing trailer courtesy of this weekend’s D23 occasion in Brazil.

Advised as a narrative by Rafiki to Simba and Nala’s daughter Kiara, the movie facilities on a younger grownup model of Mufasa (Aaron Pierre), who begins out right here as an orphan cub who crosses paths with a pleasure of lions and their younger son, Taka (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), the long run Scar. Taka’s subsequent in line to rule over Pleasure Rock, and since he’s at all times needed a brother, he’s more than pleased to get his mother and father so as to add the orphan into his household.

Years later, the boys’ pleasure turns into tangled in a warfare with a gaggle of white lions led by Mads Mikkelsen’s Kiros, who’s received goals to take management of Pleasure Rock for his  personal ends. With their household defeated, it falls to the 2 brothers to lick their wounds and attempt to cease the white lions. Throughout their journey, they brush furry shoulders with different younger Lion King characters just like the aforementioned Rafiki, future majordomo Zazu (Preston Nyman), and Sarabi (Tiffany Boone), who ultimately turns into Mufasa’s spouse. And with every buddy he meets, Mufasa comes extra into his personal as a frontrunner his folks want. Marvel how Taka feels about that…

The brand new trailer is loads like the primary, crammed with brotherly bonding and determined escapes, and a few teases of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s authentic music. No matter you concentrate on the expressions of the animals themselves, they nonetheless look fairly nice simply as photorealisitic creations on their very own. However will all the things come collectively for it to be greater than 2024’s second origin story about two brothers being pushed aside? We’ll discover out when Mufasa: The Lion King hits theaters on December 20.

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