Aaron Pierre, Kelvin Harrison Jr to steer ‘The Lion King’ prequel from Barry Jenkins 

By PTI

LOS ANGELES:  Filmmaker Barry Jenkins has roped in actor Aaron Pierre and Kelvin Harrison Jr for 2 main roles in his upcoming prequel film to “The Lion King”.

The Oscar-winning director will direct the brand new venture from a script by Jeff Nathanson, who had additionally labored on the Jon Favreau-directed 2019 live-action film, which was a remake of the 1994 animated basic, reported Deadline.

The logline is being saved below wraps, however it’s anticipated that the movie will additional discover the mythology of the characters, together with Mufasa’s origin story.

Pierre, who lately labored with Jenkins on the historic TV sequence “The Underground Railroad”, will voice Mufasa, a job that was earlier performed by veteran actor James Earl Jones in each the 1994 and 2019 movies.

Harrison Jr, finest identified for starring in filmmaker Trey Edward Shults’ drama “Waves”, will painting Scar, whose birth-name is Taka.

The untitled prequel will proceed with the photorealistic animation expertise that Favreau used for the live-action remake.

Voice starring Donald Glover as Simba and Beyonce as Nala, the 2019 movie was a large hit for the studio.

Pierre was most lately seen in M Night Shyamalan’s “Old” and Jenkins’ Amazon sequence “The Underground Railroad”.

Harrison Jr will subsequent star in filmmaker Joe Wright’s “Cyrano”.

He can be enjoying the late singer-songwriter BB King in upcoming Elvis Presley biopic, being helmed by Baz Luhrmann.