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The Lion King is a 1994 American animated musical coming-of-age drama film [3] [4] produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. Directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, and produced by Don Hahn, the film's screenplay was written by Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, and Linda Woolverton.
The story was reprinted in Lion from December 22, 1973, to May 18, 1974; this second run featured a modified conclusion so the story finished before the merger with Valiant. In 2023, Rebellion Developments produced a trade paperback containing the entire serial as part of their Treasury of British Comics series of collected editions. [2] [4]
The lion then becomes his companion and helps him during his adventures. [9] A century later, the story of taking a thorn from a lion's paw was related as an act of Saint Jerome in the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine (c. 1260). [10] Afterwards the lion joins him in the monastery and a different set of stories follows.
Elsa: The Lioness that Changed the World (2011); Shown in the US under the title Elsa's Legacy: The Born Free Story. Also to celebrate the 50 year anniversary of the book a further documentary was produced which was a collaboration between BBC in the UK for their series Natural World and PBS for their series Nature. It uses extensive archive ...
The Neo-Latin fabulist Laurentius Abstemius provided a sequel to the story with an opposite social message in his Hecatomythium (1499). In this the lion promises the mouse any reward it cares to name after setting him free. The mouse asks for the lion's daughter in marriage, but the bride steps on her husband by accident on the marriage night. [31]
The same story reappears in Alfred de Saint-Quentin's poem in Guyanese creole, Dé Chat ké Makak (The Two Cats and the Monkey) [16] and also makes an early English appearance in Jefferys Taylor's Aesop in Rhyme. [17] A much earlier Indian variation on the story appears in the Buddhist scriptures as the Dabbhapuppha Jataka. [18]
The Lion King is a Disney media franchise comprising a film series and additional media. The success of animated original 1994 American feature film, The Lion King, directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, led to a direct-to-video sequel and prequel, a live-action remake in 2019, a prequel/sequel to the 2019 film, a television film sequel, two spin-off television series, three educational ...
In sub-Saharan Africa, the lion has been a common character in stories, proverbs and dances, but rarely featured in visual arts. [254] In the Swahili language, the lion is known as simba which also means "aggressive", "king" and "strong". [56]