By After “Moonlight” landed him the Best Picture Oscar back in 2016, filmmaker Barry Jenkins followed that up with another prestige title, “If Beale Street Could Talk,” which nabbed acclaim and script nominations.
He then went on to create and direct Amazon’s Peabody Award-winning TV series “The Underground Railroad” which scored some strong accolades but was decidedly underseen.
He’s now back with Disney’s photorealistic CG animated feature “Mufasa: The Lion King,” a prequel with Disney marketing might behind it to ensure it won’t be underseen – even as he himself admits he’s well aware of, and even understands, people routinely asking why is he doing such a film.
Speaking with Vulture, Jenkins indicates it will also likely be his last attempt at all-digital filmmaking:
“It is not my thing. It is not my thing. I want to work the other way again, where I want to physically get everything there. I always believe that what is here is enough, and let me just figure out what is the chemistry to make alchemy?
How can these people, this light, this environment, come together to create an image that is moving, that is beautiful, that creates a text that is deep enough, dense enough, rich enough to speak to someone?”
The film explores the rise of the beloved king of the Pride Lands, Mufasa. The orphaned cub is lost and alone until he meets a sympathetic lion named Taka – the heir to a royal bloodline.
The chance meeting sets in motion an expansive journey of an extraordinary group of misfits searching for their destiny – their bonds will be tested as they work together to evade a threatening and deadly foe.
“Mufasa: The Lion King” releases in cinemas on December 20th.
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