Beyoncé and Extra Stars Come Face to Face With Their Lion King Characters

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These are some fierce images. 

With two weeks left till Jon Favreau‘s The Lion King remake debuts in theaters, Beyoncéand her castmates simply gave followers another excuse to be excited. Behold: the celebs have come head to head with their iconic characters

The beautiful portraits seize the actors and actresses in profile as they stare on the animals they’re taking part in, together with Donald Glover with Simba, Seth Rogen with Pumbaa, Chiwetel Ejiofor with Scar, Billy Eichner with Timon and Beyoncé with Nala. 

Along with the brand new portraits, Disney additionally shared a glance behind the scenes of the movie with a newly launched featurette. The clip contains footage of the celebs, akin to Glover and Beyoncé, voicing their characters within the studio. 

Per week in the past, followers additionally obtained to listen to a sampling of the songstress’ duet with Glover as they lined the basic hit, “Can You Really feel the Love Tonight.”

And, whereas they’ve introduced the enduring characters again to life, Beyoncé is including one thing new to the story as Favreau just lately confirmed she created a music for the movie. 

“There is a music that she carried out and wrote within the spirit of the manufacturing together with working with Lebo M., who’s a part of it with Hans Zimmer. They have been all collaborating along with her and serving to to carry this new piece of music into a movie the place there’s already a really established musical character to the piece. So it was good of them to have them working along with her to permit the brand new music to really feel organically part of the brand new manufacturing,” the director and producer defined to Fandango. 

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Along with her new observe, it appears we’ll even be seeing much more of the character on this iteration. 

As Favreau stated, “Within the unique movie, her function isn’t as giant as within the stage manufacturing, and we undoubtedly drew inspiration, and that was one of many areas the place we have been going to develop this.”

We’re loopy in love with that concept. 

The Lion King hits theaters on July 19.