Disney's "Lion King" is blamed for being called "Live-Action"

Some online commentators are opposed to the reinvention of the 1994 animated classic movie by Disney's Jon Favreau The Lion King be called informally "live action".

As The jungle Book before him, also directed by Favreau, The Lion King is dubbed a "virtual production": a primarily animated film shot on a blue screen stage that allows its filmmaker to perform as he directed a traditional live action, using digital tools such as the computer animation and motion capture.

Rob Legato, who was visual effects supervisor at a time The jungle Book and The Lion King, has already said THR he did not consider The jungle Book to be an "animation film".

"I consider it's just a movie, and that's the best way to do it," he said. The jungle Book. "We [made] Jon Favreau has plenty of time to come and realize as if it was a real action movie. "

The method of manufacturing high-tech film, combining real-action production techniques and advanced technologies to create a largely animated finished film, was used by James Cameron on Avatar and Robert Zemeckis on The walk.

A blue screen is both more convenient and less expensive – and the future of movies, says Legato, who won the Oscars special effects for Titanic and Hugo

"The ability to recreate anything and recreate it faithfully is the future of cinema. You should not know that we use a computer to make the film, "Legato told the National Association of Broadcasters Show (via THR), by adding the virtual production process on Lion King eclipses the "so outdated" process used to create the award-winning film The jungle Book.

By developing the extensive process of visual effects used in The Lion King, Says Legato THR the movie would be created using 'many virtual reality tools, so that sounds like what you're watching [if you were on a real set]. "

"You can walk on the set like a cameraman. [Wearing VR headsets] actors can now enter a scene and see other actors and trees … and as you are in 3D, you get a realistic sense [of the environment], "he said." That's what we incorporate in the next release. "

Also as The jungle Book, the "live-action" twist The Lion King was shot in Los Angeles – far from the Indian or African jungle, each recreated in the photorealistic details in their respective movies.

Some, like Aquaman director James Wan, refer to The Lion King like "live-action" without hesitation; others, like Derek Mattson on Twitter, writing using such a term "is just as logical as the animators of 1994 calling their Lion King live action. "

The trailer, which premiered in an NFL Thanksgiving game, has since become the second most watched trailer in 24 hours with 224.6 million views, behind Marvel Studios. Avengers: Infinity War to 230 million views.