Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26830263-20160302221846/@comment-5106672-20160306223235

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: GothicNarcissus wrote: What's giving me hope is I don't think they're oblivious to the prospect of yet another pointless racial controversy spawning from The Lion King. ‘Cause sure as hell there would be people getting at each other's throats over whether they should or shouldn't have cast more POC for a retelling of the savanna-set retelling of a tragedy set in Denmark. Provided that personally I think it wouldn't matter, just like it didn't matter to me in the retelling of the originally England-based Arthurian myth (we had good actors, good actresses, and that's all that matters), I still know my interent and how people can't wait to go ballistic over that stuff. They could do Hamlet with the Lion King names and POC actors for the royal family. Why should they? I mean, wouldn't Hamlet in its own right be good enough source material to adapt, should they want to add more Shakespeare to the show?

Anyway, as Eskaver has pointed out, either Hamlet or The Lion King mostly focus on an uncle-nephew conflict rather than two brothers, so I've got even more hope than they're not going down that route. :) (I'm sorry, unasked overdisneyfication of the show aside, I just can't stand The Lion King.)