The Lion King SHOCK: Mufasa and Scar were NOT brothers CONFIRMS Disney producer
THE LION KING producer Don Hahn has revealed that James Earl Jones’ Mufasa and Jeremy Irons’ Scar weren’t brothers in the Disney classic.
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After 23 years, the Disney classic is still one of animation’s best loved movies.
Now The Lion King’s producer Hahn has revealed that Mufusa and Scar were never actually brothers – well by blood anyway.
Speaking with Hello Giggles, he revealed: “[While making the movie] we talked about the fact that it was very likely [Scar and Mufasa] would not have both the same parents.
“The way lions operate in the wild…when the male lion gets old, another rogue lion comes and kills the head of the pride.”
The Lion King SHOCK: Mufasa and Scar were NOT brothers CONFIRMS Disney producer
Hahn continued: “What that does is it causes the female lions to go into heat [to reproduce], and then the new younger lion kills the king and then he kills all the babies. Now he’s the new lion that’s running the pride.
“There was always this thing about well, how do you have these two [male] lions? Occasionally there are prides that do have two male lions, in an interesting dynamic because they’re not equals [since they don’t have the same parents].
“One lion will always kind of be off in the shadows. We were trying to use those animal truths to underpin the story so we sort of figured Scar and Mufasa couldn’t really be from the same gene pool.
“In fact, that’s what [Scar] says. There’s a line, he goes, ‘I’m from the shallow end of the gene pool.’ When he’s talking to Mufasa, when Mufasa gets mad at him for not coming up to the coronation of Simba.”
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The Lion King will be released on July 19, 2019.