Today Disney announced that director Jon Favreau (Iron Man, The Jungle Book) will now be creating a live-action version of The Lion King for the studio. Given the enormous success of The Jungle Book as well as the lasting popularity of Disney’s original 1994 film, this reteaming makes a lot of sense and, thus, Disney says the project has been fast-tracked into production. However, no release date has been announced just yet.
Favreau also teased the project on Twitter using some clever emojis:
As previously announced, Favreau is also working on a sequel to his version of The Jungle Book.