The Lion King

The Lion King is a 1994 American animated musical coming-of-age drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 32nd animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. The story takes place in a kingdom of lions in Africa, and was influenced by William Shakespeare's Hamlet. The film was produced during a period known as the Disney Renaissance. The Lion King was directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, produced by Don Hahn, and has a screenplay credited to Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts and Linda Woolverton. Its original songs were written by composer Elton John and lyricist Tim Rice, and original scores were written by Hans Zimmer. The film features an ensemble voice cast that includes Matthew Broderick, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Moira Kelly, Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, Rowan Atkinson, Robert Guillaume, Madge Sinclair (in her final film role a year before her death), Whoopi Goldberg, Cheech Marin, and Jim Cummings.

Taking place in a kingdom of lions in Africa, The Lion King tells the story of Simba (Swahili for lion), a young lion who is to succeed his father, Mufasa, as King of the Pride Lands; however, after Simba's paternal uncle Scar kills Mufasa to seize the throne, Simba is manipulated into thinking he was responsible and flees into exile. After growing up in the company of the carefree outcasts Timon and Pumbaa, Simba receives valuable perspective from his childhood friend, Nala, and his shaman, Rafiki, before returning to challenge Scar to end his tyranny and take his place in the Circle of Life as the rightful King.

Development of The Lion King began in 1988 during a meeting between Jeffrey Katzenberg, Roy E. Disney and Peter Schneider while promoting Oliver & Company in Europe. Thomas Disch wrote a film treatment, and Woolverton developed the first scripts while George Scribner was signed on as director, being later joined by Allers. Production began in 1991 concurrently with Pocahontas, which wound up attracting most of Disney's top animators. Some time after the staff traveled to Hell's Gate National Park in Kenya to research on the film's setting and animals, Scribner left production disagreeing with the decision to turn the film into a musical, and was replaced by Minkoff. When Hahn joined the project, he was dissatisfied with the script and the story was promptly rewritten. Nearly 20 minutes of animation sequences took place at Disney-MGM Studios in Florida. Computer animation was also used in several scenes, most notably in the wildebeest stampede sequence.

The Lion King was released on June 15, 1994, to universal acclaim, praising the film for its music, story and animation; it finished its run as the highest-grossing release of 1994. Following a 3D re-release in 2011, with earnings of over US $987 million worldwide as of 2011, the film is the highest-grossing hand-drawn animated film in history, the highest-grossing 2D animated film in the United States, the fourth highest-grossing animated film of all time, and the 24th-highest-grossing feature film of all time. The Lion King garnered two Academy Awards for its achievement in music and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. The film has led to many derived works, such as a Broadway adaptation; two direct-to-video follow-ups—the sequel The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998) and the prequel/parallel The Lion King 1½ (2004)—and two television series, Timon and Pumbaa and The Lion Guard, a 3-D re-release in 2011; and a photorealistic remake directed by Jon Favreau in 2019, which also became the highest-grossing animated film at the time of its release. In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The Lion King is the first Disney film to have been dubbed in Zulu, and the only African language aside from Arabic to have been used for a feature-length Disney dub.

Cast

Image	Character	USA	Mex	Jap	Bra	Ger	Fra	Ita	Pol	Neth	Hun	Swe	Fin	Nor	Cro	Den	Gree	Ukr	Cze	Bul	Ice	Slov	Russ	Spa	Por	Ita(2003)	Kor	Isr	Turk	Taiw	Egyp	Zul	Egyp(2013)
	Simba (Young)	JonathanTaylor Thomas	Héctor Lee Jr.	Tatsuya Nakazaki	Patrick deOliveira	Julius Jellinek	Dimitri Rougeul	George Castiglia	Michał Mech	Piet Hein Snijders	Balázs Simonyi	Johan Halldén	Christopher Romberg	Eirik Espolin Johnson	Ivan Šturlić	Andreas Hviid	Yiánnis Yiannópoulos	Bohdan Temchenko	Jan Kalous	Zhivko Stanev	Þorvaldur D. Kristjánsson	Michal Klučka	Vyacheslav Sukhov	Marc Pociello	Tiago Caetano	Gabriele Patriarca	Kim SeonWoo	Doron Ben Ami	Sonat Pamir	Liú Ân	Karim ElHuseini	Ayanda Nhlangothi	Shihab El-DeenMahmoud
	Simba (Adult)	Matthew Broderick	Arturo Mercado	Mitsuru Miyamoto	Garcia Júnior	FrankLorenz Engel	Emmanuel Curtil	Riccardo Rossi	Paweł Tucholski	Jurrian vanDongen	Stohl András	Frank Ådahl	Paavo Kerosuo	Håvard Bakke	Rakan Rushaidat	Peter Jorde	Zacharías Róchas	Ivan Rozin	Martin Sobotka	Petar Salchev	Felix Bergsson	Róbert Roth	Yevgeniy Ivanov	Sergio Zamora	Carlos Freixo	Riccardo Rossi	Jang Se-jun	Alon Ofir	Murat Atıl	Lǐ Yǒng	Hisham Noor	Fezile Mpela	Mahmoud Shabouri
	Nala (Young)	Niketa Calame	Karla Falcón	Yamamoto Junko	Roberta Madruga	Magdalena Turba	Morgane Flahault	Perla Liberatori	Urszula Janowska	Dewi Douwes	Szentesi Dóra	Mariam Wallentin	Meri Holopainen	Pernille SommerfeldtØien	Pia Humski	Amalie Ihle Alstrup	Katerína Kakridóni	Hanna Holosnichenko	Monika Ticháčková	Yoana Padeshka	Álfrún Helga Örnólfsdóttir	Tatiana Pauhofová	Tatiana Elkina	Graciela Molina	Sara Feio	Perla Liberatori	Jang JeongYun	Rona Danieli	Seren Ceylan	Dîng Wén	Samah Ahmad	Khombi Sangweni	Habiba El-Tayel
	Nala (Adult)	Moira Kelly	MaríaFernanda Morales	Riko Hanamura	Carla Pompílio	Alexandra Wilcke	Sybille Tureau	Laura Boccanera	Krystyna Tyszkiewicz	Ryan van den Akker	Bertalan Ágnes	Kayo Shekoni	Annimaria Rinne	Anne Aartun	Dijana Bolanča	Pernille Højgaard	Alexándra Pavlídou	Valentyna Lonsʹka	Petra Hanžlíková	Tsvetomira Mihailova	Steinunn Ólína Þorsteinsdóttir	Zuzana Kapráliková	Tatiana Mikhalevkina	Marta Barbará	Cláudia Cadima	Laura Boccanera	Seo Hye-Jeong	Sarit Vino-Elad	Funda Oskay	Lin FangXue	Amani Shawqi	Wendy Molefe	Noha Fekry
	Timon	Nathan Lane	Raúl Aldana	Yûji Mitsuya	Pedro deSaintGermain	Ilja Richter	JeanPhilippe Puymartin	Tonino Accolla	Krzysztof Tyniec	David Verbeeck	Vincze GáborPéter	Peter Rangmar	PirkkaPekka Petelius	Åsleik Engmark	Dražen Bratulić	Henrik Koefoed	Zano Danias	Pavlo Skorokhodʹko	Tomáš Trapl	Georgi Stoyanov	Þórhallur Sigurðsson	Henrich Plátek	Sergey Diyachkov	Alberto Mieza	André Maia	Luigi Ferraro	Jang Gwang	Tomer Sharon	Erkan Taşdöğen	Lǐ Yǒng	Mohammad Hinedi	Bham Ntabeni	Naser Chahine
	Pumbaa	Ernie Sabella	Francisco Colmenero	Atomu Kobayashi	Mauro Ramos	Rainer Basedow	Michel Elias	Ernesto Brancucci	Emilian Kamiński	Door Van Boeckel	Gábor Melis	Jan Rippe	Pekka Laiho	Yngvar Numme	Ljubo Zečević	Lars Thiesgaard	Tasos Kostis	Yevhen Lunchenko	Jan Krobůček	Georgi Spasov	Karl Ágúst Úlfsson	Ján Kroner	Raf Kashapov	MiguelÁngel Jenner	José Raposo	Renato Montanari	Song Yong-Tae	Ami Mandelman	Naci Taşdöğen	Tóng ShàoZông	Sami Salah	Thapelo Mofokeng	Jalal El-Hajresi
	Mufasa	James Earl Jones	Carlos Magaña	Shinya Owada	Paulo Flores	Wolfgang Kühne	Jean Reno	Vittorio Gassman	Wiktor Zborowski	Coen Flink	Sinkovits Imre	Johan Schinkler	Esa Saario	Oddbjørn Tennfjord	Zvonimir Zoričić	Aage Haugland	Kóstas Kastanás	Oleksandr Ihnatusha	Miroslav Moravec	Marius Donkin	Pétur Einarsson	Leopold Haverl	Valery Nikitenko	Constantino Romero	António Marques	Gianni Musy	Yu Kang-Jin	Amnon Maskin	Haluk Kurtoğlu	Chén MíngYáng	Essam Seif	Dominic Tyawa	Mohammad Al-Shershaby
	Scar	Jeremy Irons	Carlos Petrel	Haruhiko Jô	Jorgeh Ramos	Thomas Fritsch	Jean Piat	Tullio Solenghi	Marek Barbasiewicz	Arnold Gelderman	Tibor Kristóf	Rikard Wolff	Jukka-Pekka Palo	Even Stormoen	Siniša Popović	Stig Hoffmeyer	Aléxis Stavrákis	Volodymyr Tereshchuk	Pavel Soukup	Nikolay Urumov	Jóhann Sigurðarson	Marián Slovák	Yuri Lazarev	Ricardo Solans	Rogério Samora	Tullio Solenghi	Kim ByeongGwan	Eli Gorenstein	Şahin Çelik	Xú Jiàn-Chûn	AbdulRahman AbuZahra	Robert Dlamini	Ahmad Khalil
	Rafiki	Robert Guillaume	Genaro Vásquez	Ryûji Saikachi	Pietro Mário	Joachim Kemmer	Med Hondo	Sergio Fiorentini	Jacek Czyż	Freddy Gumbs	Barbinek Péter	Svante Thuresson	LangryAbdeslam Chellaf	Calvin Ray Stiggers	Pero Juričić	Peter Belli	Ntános Liyízos	Valeriy Sheptekita	Stanislav Zindulka	Marin Yanev	Karl Ágúst Úlfsson	Stanislav Dančiak	Igor Shibanov	Juan Fernández	Fernando Luis	Sergio Fiorentini	Jang Seung-Gil	Shlomo Bar-Savit	Pekcan Koşar	Tóng ShàoZông	Mo'men El-Bardisi	Jeremiah Ndlovu	Mo'men El-Bardisi
	Zazu	Rowan Atkinson	Eduardo Tejedo	Hideyuki Umezu	Pádua Moreira	Eberhard Prüter	Michel Prud'homme	Roberto DelGiudice	Tadeusz Borowski	Paul van Gorcum	Verebély Iván	Anders Aldgård	Veikko Honkanen	Anders Hatlo	Ranko Tihomirović	Peter Zhelder	Spíros Bibílas	V'yacheslav Dovzhenko	Stanislav Fišer	Veselin Rankov	Sigurður Sigurjónsson	Oldo Hlaváček	Georgy Kovalchuk	Eduard Doncos	Fernando Luis	Roberto DelGiudice	Won-Je Tak	Ohad Shachar	Toygun Ateş	Sûn Déchéng	Adel Khalaf	Mandla Buthelezi	Adel Khalaf
	Sarabi	Madge Sinclair	Ángela Villanueva	Haruko Kitahama	Maria Helena Pader	Rita Engelmann	Nicole Raucher	Paola Giannetti	Maria Reif	Gerda Havertong	Menszátor Magdolna	Liza Öhman	Ulla Tapaninen	Kari-Ann Grønsund	Senka Bulić	Kirsten Olesen	Eléni Krití	Natalya Yaroshenko	Hana Talpová	Petya Miladinova	Helga Jónsdóttir	Kamila Magálová	Alexandra Kozhevnikova	Mercedes Montalá	Manuela Santos	Paola Giannetti	Kim Seong-Hui	Tami Spivak	Füsun Kokucu	Cuî Guófû	Safaa El-Toukhi	Lillian Dube	Hanadi Abdel Khaliq
	Shenzi	Whoopi Goldberg	Rosanelda Aguirre	Tomie Kataoka	Carmen Sheila	Hella von Sinnen	Maïk Darah	Rita Savagnone	Miriam Aleksandrowicz	Irene Kuiper	Martin Márta	Diana Nunez	Raija Jääskä	Mari Maurstad	Ana Begić	Lone Kellerman	Sofía Chánou	Hanna Levchenko	Jana Drbohlavová	Darinka Mitova	Edda Heiðrún Backman	Deana Horváthová	Tatyana Rasskazova	MaríaDolores Gispert	Cucha Carvalheiro	Rita Savagnone	Seong Seon-Nyeo	Sarai Tzuriel	Parla Şenol	Wáng Huá-Yí	Salwa MohammadAli	Linda Sebezo	Salwa Mohammad Ali
	Banzai	Cheech Marin	Jesús Barrero	Ben Hiura	Hércules Franco	Frank Lenart	Michel Mella	Marco Guadagno	Marek Frąckowiak	Alfred Lagarde	Borbély László	Anders Öjebo	Antti Pääkkönen	Per Christian Ellefsen	Marko Torjanac	Donald Andersen	Níkos Níkas	Yuriy Rebryk	Vlastimil Zavřel	Georgi Novakov	Eggert Þorleifsson	Peter Bzdúch	Valery Zakharyev	Antonio García Moral	Adriano Luz	Marco Guadagno	Choe ByeongSang	Avi Pnini	Gürdal Tosun	Chén GuângPíng	Sami Abdel Halim	Sandile Dlamini	Ahmad Khalil
	Ed	Jim Cummings														Jim Cummings
	Sarafina	Zoe Leader	Cristina Camargo	Yoshiko Takemura	Marly Ribeiro	Nikki Rabanus	Perrette Pradier	Paola Caviglia			Koffler Gizi		Anneli Saaristo	Unn Vibeke Hol	Mirela Brekalo			Lyudmyla Ardelʹyan					Yelena Pavlovskaya	María Luisa Solá		Paola Caviglia		Shafrira Zakai	Gül Selçuk
	Gopher	Javier Pontón	Francisco Colmenero	Mitsuru Miyamoto	Telmo de Avelar			Renzo Stacchi			Hankó Attila	Tommy Halldén	Pekka Lehtosaari	Harald Mæle	Vlado Kovačić								Oleg Kulikovich	Javier Pontón	Carlos Freixo	Renzo Stacchi			Nevzat Çankara

Songs

Image	Character	USA	Mex	Jap	Bra	Ger	Fra	Ita	Pol	Neth	Hun	Swe	Fin	Nor	Cro	Den	Gree	Ukr	Cze	Bul	Ice	Slo	Russ	Spa	Por	Ita(2003)	Kor	Isr	Tur	Taiw	Egyp	Zulu	Egyp(2013)
	Simba (Young)	Jason Weaver	Kalimba Marichal	Sôta Murakami	Bruno Miguel	Manuel Straube	Dimitri Rougeul	George Castiglia	Michał Mech	Piet Hein Snijders	Simonyi Balázs	Johan Halldén	Christopher Romberg	Eirik Espolin Johnson	Ivan Šturlić	Andreas Hviid	Yiánnis Yiannópoulos	Bohdan Temchenko	Kateřina Buriánová	Zhivko Stanev	Þorvaldur D. Kristjánsson	Matúš Krátky	Vyacheslav Sukhov	Marc Pociello	Fábio Pascoal	Gabriele Patriarca	Seo Jae-Gyeong	Doron Ben Ami	Giray Uyar	Zhâng Jiâ-Wéi	Karim ElHuseini	Ayanda Nhlangothi	Shihab El-DeenMahmoud
	Simba (Adult)	Joseph Williams	Renato López	Mitsuru Miyamoto	Garcia Júnior	Cusch Jung	Emmanuel Curtil	Daniele Viri	Paweł Tucholski	Jurrian vanDongen	Stohl András	Frank Ådahl	Paavo Kerosuo	Håvard Bakke	Kristijan Beluhan	Peter Jorde	Dimítris Papadimitríou	Ivan Rozin	Jiří Langmajer	Petar Salchev	Felix Bergsson	Róbert Roth	Yevgeniy Ivanov	Sergio Zamora	Telmo Miranda	Daniele Viri	Kim GyeongJu	Alon Ofir	Ali Fuat Ülgen	Lǐ Yǒng	Hisham Noor	Zamo Mbutho	Mahmoud Shabouri
	Nala (Young)	Laura Williams	Maggie Vera	Yamamoto Junko	Paula 'Nanná' Tribuzy	Magdalena Turba	Melinda Attia	Perla Liberatori	Urszula Janowska	Dewi Douwes	Kiss Zsuzsanna	Mariam Wallentin	Meri Holopainen	Pernille SommerfeldtØien	Silvija Pleše	Amalie Ihle Alstrup	Katerína Kakridóni	Hanna Holosnichenko	Monika Ticháčková	Yoana Padeshka	Álfrún Helga Örnólfsdóttir	Tatiana Pauhofová	Tatiana Elkina	Ángela Aloy	Ana Guida	Perla Liberatori	Jang JeongYun	Rona Danieli		Dîng Wén	Samah Ahmad	Khombi Sangweni	Habiba El-Tayel
	Nala (Adult)	Sally Dworsky	Marianne	Riko Hanamura	Kika Tristão	Alexandra Wilcke	Maïdi Roth	Lorena Brancucci	Katarzyna Skrzynecka	Ryan van den Akker	Udvarias Anna	Kayo Shekoni	Annimaria Rinne	Anne Aartun	Dijana Bolanča	Pernille Højgaard	Alexándra Pavlídou	Valentyna Lonsʹka	Jana Mařasová	Tsvetomira Mihailova	Steinunn Ólína Þorsteinsdóttir	Zdena Studenková	Yana Radion	Ángela Aloy	Ana Guida	Lorena Brancucci	Jeong Yeo-Jin	Sarit Vino-Elad	Tuba Önal	Chén XiùZhû	Amani Shawqi	Thozama Motsage	Noha Fekry
	Timon	Nathan Lane	Raúl Carballeda	Yûji Mitsuya	Pedro de SaintGermain	Ilja Richter	JeanPhilippe Puymartin	Roberto Stafoggia	Krzysztof Tyniec	David Verbeeck	Vincze GáborPéter	Peter Rangmar	PirkkaPekka Petelius	Åsleik Engmark	Dražen Bratulić	Henrik Koefoed	Zano Danias	Pavlo Skorokhodʹko	Tomáš Trapl	Nencho Balabanov	Þórhallur Sigurðsson	Henrich Plátek	Sergei Savchenko	Òscar Mas	André Maia	Luigi Ferraro	Kim Seong-Ki	Tomer Sharon	Cihat Okan	Lǐ Yǒng	Hisham Noor	Bham Ntabeni	Naser Chahine
	Pumbaa	Ernie Sabella	Francisco Colmenero	Atomu Kobayashi	Mauro Ramos	Rainer Basedow	Michel Elias	Ernesto Brancucci	Emilian Kamiński	Door Van Boeckel	István Bálint	Jan Rippe	Pekka Laiho	Yngvar Numme	Ljubo Zečević	Lars Thiesgaard	Tasos Kostis	Yevhen Lunchenko	Jan Krobůček	Tsanko Tasev	Karl Ágúst Úlfsson	Dalibor Jenis	Andrey Shamin	MiguelÁngel Jenner	José Raposo	Renato Montanari	Song Yong-Tae	Ami Mandelman	Naci Taşdöğen	Mǎ ZhàoJùn	Sami Salah	Thapelo Mofokeng	Jalal El-Hajresi
	Scar	Jim Cummings	Carlos Petrel	Haruhiko Jô	Jorgeh Ramos	Thomas Fritsch	Jean Piat	Tullio Solenghi	Marek Barbasiewicz	Arnold Gelderman	Tibor Kristóf	Rikard Wolff	Jukka-Pekka Palo	Even Stormoen	Siniša Popović	Stig Hoffmeyer	Aléxis Stavrákis	Volodymyr Tereshchuk	Pavel Soukup	Nikolay Urumov	Jóhann Sigurðarson	Marián Slovák	Yuri Lazarev	Jordi Doncos	Rogério Samora	Tullio Solenghi	Lee SeongHun	Eli Gorenstein	Şahin Çelik	Dîng Dámíng	AbdulRahman AbuZahra	Victor Masondo	Ahmad Khalil
	Zazu	Jeff Bennett	Eduardo Tejedo	Hideyuki Umezu	Pádua Moreira	Eberhard Prüter	Michel Prud'homme	Roberto DelGiudice	Tadeusz Borowski	Paul van Gorcum	Verebély Iván	Anders Aldgård	Veikko Honkanen	Anders Hatlo	Ranko Tihomirović	Peter Zhelder	Spíros Bibílas	V'yacheslav Dovzhenko	Stanislav Fišer	Veselin Rankov	Sigurður Sigurjónsson	Oldo Hlaváček	Georgy Kovalchuk	Eduard Doncos	Fernando Luis	Roberto DelGiudice	Kim Jae-Woo	Ohad Shachar	Toygun Ateş	Sûn Déchéng	Adel Khalaf	Mandla Buthelezi	Adel Khalaf

Additional Material

Image	Character	USA	Mex	Jap	Bra	Ger	Fra	Ita	Pol	Neth	Hun	Swe	Fin	Nor	Cro	Den	Gree	Ukr	Cze	Bul	Ice	Slov	Russ	Spa	Por	Kor	Isr	Tur	Taiw	Egyp	Zulu	Egyp(2013)
	Simba (Young)	Evan Saucedo	Alan Piz Morán	Ichikawa Sōichi	Gustavo Pereira	Florian Schade	Mathias Mella	Gabriele Patriarca	Marek Molak	Laurens vandeWerken	Baradlay Viktor	Daniel Andersson	Saska Pulkkinen	Petter Jølstad	Ivan Šturlić	Lukas'Graham' Forchhammer	Lázaros Chrisomallídis	Bohdan Temchenko	Jan Kalous	Zhivko Stanev	Þorvaldur D. Kristjánsson	Michal Klučka	Vyacheslav Sukhov	JoséAntonio Torrabadella	JoãoMiguel Relvas	Oh SeungYoon	Elchi Refooa	Erin Yeşildere	Xiè Mèng-Rǔ	Adil Omar		Shihab El-DeenMahmoud
	Mufasa	JamesEarl Jones	Héctor LamaYazbek	Shinya Owada	Paulo Flores	Wolfgang Kühne	Jean Reno	Gianni Musy	Wiktor Zborowski	Peter Blok	Vass Gábor	Johan Schinkler	Esa Saario	Oddbjørn Tennfjord	Zvonimir Zoričić	Morten Staugaard	Dimítris Kontoyiánnis	Oleksandr Ihnatusha	Miroslav Moravec	Marius Donkin	Pétur Einarsson	Leopold Haverl	Valery Nikitenko	Constantino Romero	António Marques	Yu Kang-Jin	Amnon Maskin	Haluk Kurtoğlu	Chén MíngYáng		Dominic Tyawa	Mohammad Al-Shershaby
	Zazu	Jeff Bennett	Eduardo Tejedo	Hideyuki Umezu	Pádua Moreira	Eberhard Prüter	Michel Prud'homme	Roberto DelGiudice	Tadeusz Borowski	Paul van Gorcum	Verebély Iván	Anders Aldgård	Veikko Honkanen	Anders Hatlo	Ranko Tihomirović	Peter Zhelder	Spíros Bibílas	V'yacheslavDovzhenko	Stanislav Fišer	Veselin Rankov	Sigurður Sigurjónsson	Oldo Hlaváček	Georgy Kovalchuk	Eduard Doncos	Fernando Luis	Kim Jae-Woo	Ohad Shachar	Ahmet Eres	Sûn Déchéng	'Ahmad Saed		Adel Khalaf