The first footage of Barry Jenkins’ Mufasa: The Lion King will be released worldwide on April 29, 2024, between 11 AM and 1 PM GMT. Promised to debut exclusively on Good Morning America, The Lion King prequel’s trailer will be released during the show’s two-hour duration. This will be its first public release following Disney playing a version of the teaser at CinemaCon earlier this month.
Before the events that saw Simba’s rise to glory, the upcoming prequel brings the origin story of Mufasa to life. It uses similar photorealistic CGI to reveal how Mufasa rose to power before being betrayed by Scar.
A new screenshot of young Mufasa was revealed on Sunday, April 28, 2024. GMA announced the movie’s trailer release on X formerly Twitter along with the above screenshot of young Mufasa. Prior to this new image, the first look at the film was revealed earlier this year during Disney’s annual shareholder meeting.
TOMORROW: The trailer for “Mufasa: The Lion King” will debut exclusively on GMA! pic.twitter.com/vBHUdFrYn3
Advertisement— Good Morning America (@GMA) April 28, 2024
Written by Jeff Nathanson, the official logline of Mufasa: The Lion King reads:
“The movie will follow the rise of one of Pride Lands’ greatest kings, returns to the savannah where Rafiki tells Kiara, Simba and Nala’s daughter ,the story of her grandfather, with some comments coming from Timon and Pumbaa.” The film features the voices of Aaron Pierre as the titular lion, Mufasa. It also stars Penny Johnson Jerald as Sarafina, Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Scar, Billy Eichner as Timon, Seth Rogen as Pumbaa, and John Kani as Rafiki, among others.
