AwardsWatch - ‘The Lion King’: new character posters for Donald Glover, Beyoncé, Seth Rogen, Billy Eichner and more

‘The Lion King’: new character posters for Donald Glover, Beyoncé, Seth Rogen, Billy Eichner and more

Disney’s live-action reboot of Aladdin may have just debuted in theaters last weekend but the Mouse House is wasting no time in ramping up what could be their biggest hit yet with an all-new computer animated update of one of their top grossing animated films of all time, The Lion King.

Staying true to the classic story, director Jon Favreau (The Jungle Book) utilizes pioneering filmmaking techniques to bring the iconic characters to the big screen in a whole new way. Featuring the voices of Donald Glover as Simba, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter as Nala, James Earl Jones as Mufasa, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Scar, Seth Rogen as Pumbaa and Billy Eichner as Timon, and more. The film is produced by Favreau, Jeffrey Silver, Karen Gilchrist and written by Jeff Nathanson.

Check out the new TV spot plus all 11 brand new character posters below. Disney will release The Lion King on July 19th.

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.