Beyonce is set to voice Simba’s childhood friend turned love

Beyonce is set to voice Simbas childhood friend turned high regard compound Nala in the sentient-produce a consequences remake of Disneys The Lion King, the singer and studio announced Wednesday.

The 36-year-very old pop megastar stated the long-rumored role in a Facebook tally that showed headshots of the voice cast, along with revealing that Keegan-Michael Key

Alongside Beyonceand mostly to the front announcedwill be Donald Glover as Simba, James Earl Jones reprising his role in the 1994 active movie as Mufasa, and Chiwetel Ejiofor as his nemesis Scar.

Comedian John Oliver was confirmed as Zazu, even though new big names in the productionset for well-ventilated in July 2019 -- add occurring Seth Rogan and Billy Eichner.

It is a directors slope to assemble a clever team as soon as this to bring this eternal reason to dynamism, said director Jon Favreau, who helmed Disneys hit live-be swift-achievement remake of The Jungle Book (2016), in a proclamation confirming the cast.

The production will construct just about Disneys hugely lucrative reimagining of that movie and several accrual classics from its vaultsincluding Beauty and the Beast, Maleficent and Cinderellafor contemporary audiences.

The Lion King is one of the biggest dynamic films of all epoch, as soon as a lifetime global crate-office terrifying of just below $1 billion.

It won Oscars for the look Can You Feel the Love Tonight by Elton John and Tim Rice, and for its score by Hans Zimmer, lead two Grammy Awards, gone the soundtrack selling anew 14 million copies.

The stage production made its Broadway debut in 1997 and went on the subject of the subject of to win six Tony Awards.

Translated into eight languages, the films 23 global stage productions have been seen by sophisticated than 85 million people. The worldwide terrifying for the brand exceeds that of any film, Broadway function or added entertainment title in records.

Stunning to the fore footage of the living-battle marginal note shown at Disneys D23 fan convention in Southern California in July climaxed in the iconic moment behind Rafiki introduces newborn Simba to the animals of the savannah.

This is a parable that belongs to everyone who grew happening once the indigenous film, said Favreau.

I wanted to work up that we could be respectful of the source material even though bringing it to vigor using other techniques and technologies.