Director Jon Favreau Gives Update on 'The Lion King' and 'Jungle Book 2'
Collider sat down with director Jon Favreau recently to get an update on his projects, The Lion King remake, and the follow-up to The Jungle Book. First thing is first, these aren't happening overnight.
"I think nothing’s quick. This is a slow process and rushing it is not a good idea because a lot of when people react to visual effects they don’t like, often times it’s because it’s rushed and because it’s not well thought through ahead of time. Having gone up to Pixar and working with them on this and other projects — and they’re about as technical as you get — they always say the same thing — it’s all about story. Make sure the story is perfect before you launch forward into the next phase. The technical phase doesn’t come until the human storytelling phase is done."
On The Jungle Book sequel, he said "it's all about the story, all about the script, all about the characters and we're working on that, and making a lot of progress and have some stuff that feels connected.
"Because you want it to feel like the first film. You want it to feel not like you’re doing a different genre a film because you’re doing another chapter, you want it to feel connected to the original."
Source: Collider
