Timon and Pumbaa (2025 film)

Timon and Pumbaa is a 2025 photorealistic computer-animated musical film directed by Jon Favreau that serves as a prequel and midequel to the 2019 ''The Lion King. The plot is loosely based on the 2004 straight-to-video animated film The Lion King 1 1/2''.

Synopsis
Timon, a meerkat who has never really fit in with the mob sets out on his own after failing at sentry duty. Along the way he meets a warthog named Pumbaa who is also on his on and they start traveling together. They seek paradise, but must brave rivals, predators, and the elements to find it. After finally finding a "dream home" it isn't long before they meet and take in Simba the lion cub. But parenthood isn't easy.

Cast

 * Billy Eichner as Timon, a meerkat and the main protagonist.
 * Seth Rogen as Pumbaa, a common warthog and the deuterogamist.
 * Donald Glover as Simba, a lion and the tritagonist


 * ??? as young Simba
 * ??? as Ma, a female meerkat who is Timon's mother and the mob's alpha female
 * ??? as Uncle Adili, Timon's grumpy uncle
 * ??? and ??? as Akili and Bweha, a pair of black-backed jackals that attemps to prey upon the meerkat mob.
 * Chance Bennett as bushbaby
 * Amy Sedaris as elephant shrew
 * ??? as bat-eared fox
 * ??? and ??? as dik-diks


 * Beyoncé as Nala
 * Florence Kasumba, Keegan-Michael Key, and Eric Andre as Shenzi, Kamari, and Azizi.
 * John Oliver as Zazu
 * ??? as additional voices

Soundtrack
Hans Zimmer will return to score the film. Don Harper who wrote the songs in the Lion King 1 1/2 will return to rework them in the new movie, with the help of Elton John and Tim Rice from both the 1994 film and 2019 remake.

The songs “Diggah Tunnah” and “That’s All I Need” from The Lion King 1 1/2 will be remade for the new movie, and two thus far untitled new songs are being written for the film.

Trivia

 * Although the story was inspired by The Lion King 1 1/2, it removes most of the elements of the direct-to-video film in which Timon and Pumbaa's adventures were connected to Simba's life before he met them have been removed. The film, while still containing comedic elements, is also a bit darker in tone.