New 'Lion King' trailer shows live-action take on beloved story

The best part of today’s new trailer for Disney’s live-action “The Lion King” might be the last few seconds — a snippet of Timon and Pumbaa, voiced by Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen respectively, singing — you guessed it — “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”

Set for a July 19 release, the movie brings back James Earl Jones as the voice of Mufasa. It also features Donald Glover as Simba, Beyonce as Nala, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Scar and Eric Andre as Azizi.

Director Jon Favreau will take audiences back to the African savanna where future king Simba must once again face betrayal, tragedy and drama on the path to his destiny.

Or is it just his “circle of life”?

The movie opens July 19, with 2019 being the 25th anniversary of the debut of the original animated version.

As usual, the internet has thoughts.

The positives:

The new Lion King looks so good Mufasa, Timon and Pumbaa and...#TheLionKing pic.twitter.com/Ky81X8J2Hy

— JES (@Jeesseessee) April 10, 2019

ATTENTION: All Lion King Fans!

Im shaking right now..

Taking my napkins this July to the cinemas pic.twitter.com/D6SMczn9HQ

— h o l l o w ? (@HollowPoiint) April 10, 2019

The negatives:

I'm all for the lion king remake, (mostly because of Donald Glover), but these two pictures highlight how having live action cartoon characters restricts the portrayal of emotion, I mean just look at the picture of scar in the original photo compared to the new one #TheLionKing pic.twitter.com/aFpREnNzY3

— Alistair (@alip1118) April 10, 2019

The Lion King CGI looks incredible but did we really need a remake with no expression and worse line delivery pic.twitter.com/HNB93jQS03

— Lee Dawson (@LeeDawsonVE) April 10, 2019

the lion king "remake" is a pointless cash grab. if it makes you happy, fine, but it's a bad idea created by an increasingly dominant corporate entertainment monopoly that endlessly recycles content because it avoids risk.

— Zack Handlen (@zhandlen) April 10, 2019