1/29/2024 0 Comments Charlie fink disney birthday![]() ![]() I think it’s fair to say that nobody really knew exactly where this whole thing was gonna go. It was the most amazing trip I have ever had in my life. I had never art directed before and … I went to Africa with the crew at that point. I guess when I really engaged and got started was I began by being asked to be one of the art directors. ![]() At that point, it was called King of the Jungle. I was working on Beauty and the Beast when I first saw drawings at the studio. The project was around for a very long time in development. We brought this combined sensibility to our development and direction of the new and improved Lion King. So, we both enjoyed very theatrical, humorous, colorful-though edgy-approaches to entertainment. Roger storyboarded “Poor Unfortunate Souls.” And I did the first experimental animation of the character. On The Little Mermaid, I designed Ursula as a drag queen a la Divine from the John Waters films. Again, the original was much more reality-based and naturalistic. Roger and I both liked very theatrical stories and storytelling. We brought in all kinds of references and differing philosophies. Roger felt very much the same way and so we collaborated very effectively. When I came aboard the project, I felt very strongly that it needed a spiritual dimension to deepen the mythic qualities of the storytelling. It was conceived more like a True-Life Adventure. MINKOFF: The original approach to King of the Jungle was very naturalistic. That kicked me off to this particular telling, which is Scar betraying Simba Simba’s trust of Scar, and you know how the story goes from there. He told a really interesting personal story about the betrayal an avuncular figure in his life. That’s kind of what we went back to and so, I asked him what drew him to the idea, because he was very very committed to the project. WOOLVERTON: I was on a movie called Homeward Bound and then Jeffrey Katzenberg took me off, which I was upset about, and put me on this thing called “King of the Jungle.” So, that’s how I got involved … Jeffrey really wanted to do a coming of age of a lion cub in Africa. ![]()
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