The Lion King Reborn/Tropes

"No one...ever means for these things to happen...but the King is dead. And if it weren't for you, he'd still be alive. Oh! What will your mother think? "What am I gonna do?" "Run...Run away and never return."

- Scar and Simba after the murder of King Mufasa

The Lion King Reborn is an upcoming 2019 American-South Korean animated epic, adventure, musical, and comedy-drama film and the first film entry of the Disney Reborn Multiverse overall. It is directed by Roger Allers and Minkoff, and written by Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, Linda Woolverton, Flip Kobler, Cindy Marcus, Tom Rogers, Raymond Singer, and Jeff Nathanson. Kobler and Marcus would go on to complete this movie's sequel, which concludes the story arc started by The Lion King.

After years of planning behind the scenes, unlike the original 1994 film, this one focuses on four storylines: a young lion named Simba, who is to succeed his father, Mufasa, as King of the Pride Lands when his evil younger brother Scar murders him in a wildebeest stampede; a subplot involving a meerkat and warthog duo named Timon and Pumbaa, who search a place as their dream home with no predators via the word "Hakuna Matata" (a meaning to "No Worries" in Swahili); Simba and Nala's daughter Kiara falling in love with Kovu, a male rogue lion from a banished pride that was once loyal to Scar; and Simba's second-born son Kion forming his new Lion Guard with best friends Fuli the cheetah, Bunga the honey badger, Ono the egret and Beshte the hippopotamus in order to defend the Pride Lands from attacks led by Janja's clan of hyenas, Reirei's matriarch of jackals, Mzingo's flock of vultures and Makuu's float of crocodiles, and to protect the circle of life.

Trivia

 * Billing Displacement: TBA
 * In terms of the actual billed cast:
 * The actors playing the five suspects of Pride Rock are credited in this order: Matthew Broderick, Eden Riegel, Jason Marsden, Gabrielle Union, and James Earl Jones. Union is easily the film's second most prominent character. It's fairly reasonable that Riegel and Marsden are billed ahead of her, but she definitely shouldn't have come after those two.
 * This is followed by the leader of the Outsiders: Nika Futterman before the unusual duo: Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella.
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 * Then we get Julie Kavner and Jerry Stiller, who is in the movie for less than a minute, getting billed before Jeremy Irons and Max Charles. Partially justified by giving Charles the And Starring treatment on some posters, which he doesn't get in the movie proper.
 * Last on the bill are Kevin Schon, Ron Funches, Madison Pettis, Andrew Kishino, Vargus Mason, Jonny Rees, Christian Slater, Kevin Michael Richardson, Gerald Rivers, Blair Underwood, Ana Gasteyer, Phil LaMarr, Lynette DuPree, C. J. Byrnes, Steve Blum, Jack McBrayer, Maisie Klompus, John Rhys-Davies, Dan Howell, Phil Lester, Sinbad, Michael Dorn and Jeffrey Tambor, all of whom are complete unknowns.