There’s been some contention amongst film fans recently regarding Disney claiming the upcoming Lion King is a “live-action” remake considering most of its characters and settings are CGI creations. After the first trailer dropped, many noticed that if anything, the digital animation in the newer movie fails to capture the dynamism of the original, and a new batch of posters released last week only reinforced that thought.
Each one-sheet focused on a close up of singular photo-realistic character, and while some at least looked cute, like the lion cubs Simba and Nala, others just served as grotesque reminders that warthogs and red-billed hornbills aren’t as cuddly as we’d like to imagine. Even still, the fact that most of the images look like cropped stock photos straight from Shutterstock didn’t quell any detractors’ concerns.
Dropping the character one-sheets at the end of the week not only gave...
Each one-sheet focused on a close up of singular photo-realistic character, and while some at least looked cute, like the lion cubs Simba and Nala, others just served as grotesque reminders that warthogs and red-billed hornbills aren’t as cuddly as we’d like to imagine. Even still, the fact that most of the images look like cropped stock photos straight from Shutterstock didn’t quell any detractors’ concerns.
Dropping the character one-sheets at the end of the week not only gave...
- 6/4/2019
- by Mike Lee
- We Got This Covered
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