Blue Ivy Carter may not seem within the first teaser for Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King, however she’s already stolen the present. It seems that each Beyoncé and her daughter will seem within the movie: Queen Bey will appropriately play the Lion King Mufasa’s spouse, Queen Nala, reprising her function from 2019’s Lion King remake; and Blue Ivy will play Kiara—Simba’s inheritor. Neither of those characters makes a significant look within the movie’s first teaser, which Disney launched Monday, however X customers are already singing their pleasure from the rooftops.
Mufasa might assist Blue Ivy break one other file in present enterprise. She already grew to become the youngest girl to chart on the Billboard Sizzling 100 in 2019, when she sang on Beyoncé’s “Brown Pores and skin Lady” for the Lion King soundtrack at age seven. (Six-year-old Rumi Carter just lately broke that file with a characteristic on the Cowboy Carter observe “Protector.”) With this look as Kiara, Blue Ivy will technically turn out to be the youngest-ever Disney princess—that’s, assuming lions depend. Both manner, people are excited.
Like most teasers, this roughly minute-long trailer doesn’t inform us a lot. Naturally, we get the standard Lion King opening music, after which Rafiki lets us know what we’re right here for: “A lion was born with no drop of the Aristocracy in his blood, a lion who would change our lives eternally.” (In case we didn’t know from the title, he additionally confirms that lion can be Mufasa, performed by Aaron Pierre.) There are ice caves for some motive, there’s a lion cub operating on the backs of hippos, and there’s a grown lion fleeing from an alligator’s gaping maw. The one factor conspicuously lacking right here can be a style of the music; is that this film not a musical? I suppose we’ll have to attend to listen to a few of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s tunes.
For these questioning how Blue Ivy elements in right here, the teaser’s description helpfully lets us know that Rafiki is relaying this story to her character, Kiara. “Advised in flashbacks, the story introduces Mufasa as an orphaned cub, misplaced and alone till he meets a sympathetic lion named Taka (Kelvin Harrison, Jr.), the inheritor to a royal bloodline.” From there, Mufasa heads out on “an expansive journey of a unprecedented group of misfits looking for their future—their bonds will likely be examined as they work collectively to evade a threatening and lethal foe.”
All of this leaves me with only one query: Are we going to see Scar in any respect on this film? And extra importantly, if Kiara is exhibiting up, can we additionally get to fulfill Scar’s son, Kovu? Inquiring Lion King II: Simba’s Pleasure obsessives need demand to know!
