The Lion King Reborn/Transcript

This is the transcript for The Lion King: Return of the King, produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Walt Disney Animation Studios, as well as distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The film serves extended version of Disney's animated classic The Lion King, combined with its sequels and spin-offs. Directed by Rob Minkoff, Roger Allers, and Howy Parkins, it stars an ensemble voice cast of well-known actors including Matthew Broderick, Gabrielle Union, Rowan Atkinson, Nika Futterman, Jeremy Irons, Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, Diamond White, Jason Marsden, Eden Riegel, Lacey Chabert, Andy Dick, Joshua Rush, Madison Pettis, Sarah Hyland, Angela Bassett, Khary Payton, and Max Charles as various members of an animal kingdom ruled by a lion.


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The Assassination of Ahadi
To be continued…
 * [The camera first fades into a night sky; stars shine on-screen]
 * Young Taka: Baba…
 * Ahadi: Yes, my son.
 * Young Taka: Tell me a story.
 * Ahadi: Which one?
 * Young Taka: The story of home.
 * [As Ahadi starts the story, the night sky zooms in, disloving into a flashback in the Pride Lands with a vibranium meteor striking Africa with lions forming. It then shows a member of the herd known as the first Lion King before it zooms onto Earth]
 * Ahadi: Millions of years ago, a meteorite made of vibranium, the strongest substance in the universe, struck the continent of Africa, affecting the plant life around it. And when the time of lion came, five tribes settled on it and called it Pride Rock. The tribes lived in constant war with each other until a warrior shaman received a vision from the lion Goddess, Olehea, who led him to the Heart-Shaped Herb, a plant that granted him superhuman strength, speed, and instincts. The warrior became king and the first Lion King, the protector of Africa. Four tribes agreed to live under the king's rule, but the Jabari tribe isolated themselves in the mountains. The Wakandans used vibranium to develop technology more advanced than any other nation, but as Wakanda thrived, the world around it descended further into chaos. To keep vibranium safe, the Wakandans vowed to hide in plain sight, keeping the truth of their power from the outside world.
 * Young Taka: And we still hide, Baba?
 * Ahadi: Yes.
 * Young Taka: … Why?

Once Upon a Timon…
To be continued…
 * [Sounds of morning on the savannah. Cue lion roar in the background, calling the animals to gather to Pride Rock for the ceremony. Sunrise on African grassland (lightly treed), in time with opening chant to The Circle of Life. Animals of all types (rhinos, meerkats, cheetahs) raise their heads as the sun rises, preparing to march to Pride Rock. Titles words appear: AFRICA - PRESENT DAY]
 * Rafiki: It was a glorious sight! Old Rafiki could hardly believe his eyes: all the animals on the move, coming together from the Four Winds… [cut a view at Rafiki in his baobab tree; he views the animals heading to Pride Rock] …who could forget a day like that? [camera pan on Pride Rock in the distance. Light shines brightly on it] Everybody came to celebrate the birth of Simba, Mufasa's boy. [bounds down inside his tree. He grabs a turtle shell and breaks a fruit in half] You see… ♪ It was the Circle of Life… ♪ [suddenly halts for a beat and blinks at the audience] Oh? What's that you say? Oh! [bounds deeper into his tree and grabs his staff] You've heard of this before, yeah? [puts his hand in some fruit paint] You think you know the story?! [he draws a picture of Timon dressed in drag and doing the hula] You don't know the half of it!
 * [Cracks appear across the screen image, and the screen shatters and falls from the field of view in fragments, leaving a view of Pride Rock in daylight]
 * Africalous: [narrating, reverently] Pride Rock. So majestic. So powerful. So…bizarrely named. This was Africa's most habitat-visited place in the mystic Pride Lands, full of wise animals, who respect known as the "Circle of Life". [camera pan to Mufasa watching over the Pride Lands] Mufasa, son of Ahadi, is currently the king of the Pride Lands, alongside his mate Sarabi as queen. [Sarabi comes up and nuzzles her husband's head. Rafiki and Zazu then come in on-screen] Rafiki was known to be their shaman…for a mandrill, while Zazu, who was a hornbill, worked as the king's majordomo. [camera pan to Timon, walking up on-screen before looking at the camera] This is Timon. He was a meerkat of the Our story does not start here. Rather it starts several hundred football yards away from the majestic proud land in Africa. This is Timon. He was known to be a meerkat, dreaming to live in a better place. He was also an outcast from his colony, after failing to perform Sentry duty ordered by his mother Ma, and his uncle Max, who has gone a…little bit paranoid and eccentric. [camera pan back to Pride Rock] Forsaking, how can a rock be proud? It's a rock, because the animals think a "pride" is what they call a group of lions. But where meerkats come from, they didn't have nothing to be proud of. But maybe it'd be safer if I just show you where Timon came from. Please remain seated while the camera is in motion. [the camera does a super-high-speed truck-out from Pride Rock, past zebras, grasslands, the Elephant Graveyard, the Gorge, marshlands, the desert, and finally stopping at a dry plain of low mounds of dirt, with a tumbleweed blowing across] Here we are: our story really begins from Pride Rock to locals known as the "Pit of Shame". They were so low on the food chain they were underground…but you don't have to take my word for it. I'll just let the fellow meerkats do the talking as one by one pop out of their holes like a game of Whack-a-Mole.
 * ["Digga Tunnah" music begins]