Disney hired Jon Favreau in September to helm their live-action reimagining of The Lion King, so he'll be spending the successivo several years working on both projects back-to-back.
We just spoke to Favreau about both films and he revealed that he not only used some virtual reality technology for The Jungle Book, but that he’ll be using it a lot più in the live-action Lion King movie.
Veteran scribe Jeff Nathanson has been tapped to pen the screenplay for The Lion King, Disney’s re-imagining of the iconic animated pic that Jon Favreau has recently came aboard to direct.