The Lion King back with some of its best stars

The casting process for the upcoming Lion King remake has begun! Director Jon Favreau revealed that Donald Glover will voice the adult Simba and James Earl Jones will be back to voice Mufasa in Disney’s live action re-telling of their hit 1994 movie.

James Earl Jones is best known for voicing Darth Vader in the Star Wars movies. Jones along with others like Matthew Broderick, Whoopi Goldberg, Jeremy Irons and Nathan Lane, make The Lion King with one of the best Disney voice casts to this day.

Aside from the castings, no specific details for The Lion King remake have been revealed other than it will contain songs from its animated predecessor and is being written by Jeff Nathanson, who also penned Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. The Lion King remake is reportedly being fast-tracked, so expect to see it sooner rather than later.

Patrick Stewart won’t play Professor X anymore

Hugh Jackman won’t be the only actor departing the X-Men franchise after Logan.

Patrick Stewart announced he would be retiring as Professor X, explaining: “So, we had some time to sit there and, as I sat there I realised there will never be a better, a more perfect, a more sensitive, emotional, and beautiful way of saying au revoir to Charles Xavier than this movie. So, I told [Hugh] that same evening, ‘I’m done too. It’s all over.’”

Like Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, Patrick Stewart has been playing Professor X since the X-Men movie series launched in 2000. You can see Patrick Stewart one last time as Professor X when Logan is released on March 3.

Published in Dawn, Young World March 4th, 2017