Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26830263-20160302221846/@comment-1894786-20160306033947

Eskaver wrote:

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. The problem with any of that logic is that as far as we know, the two brothers are the most important, but LK and Hamlet isn't about the two brothers whatsoever. Simba and Hamlet are the stars. That's like having Romeo and Juliet with no focus on Romeo and Juliet, but their parents. It could be a "prequel" like how Brave and Frozen were sequels. In the original story, Prince Claudius (Scar) was not in fact the power hungry tyrant that Disney turned him into. I mean... He kinda was, but he wasn't as bad as Scar. Once could sort of bridge that gap and show how the character went from Cladius to Scar.

Then again, the brothers could easily be our first foray into Marvel territory with Thor and Loki. After all, Eddie and Adam have stated no Star Wars (even though aliases have been used and creatures have been namedropped), but they've never mentioned anything about Marvel one way or another, with whom they have a relationship with through the Marvel Graphic Novels. Though I wouldn't characterize Thor as "morally corrupt" (most of the time), making Thor the villain and Loki the seeming hero would be a classic twist on the Norse myths and separate it from the MCU interpretation. (And quite possibly all previous others.)