SyFy Wire has gotten an exclusive statement from the original Lion King writer Linda Woolverton and director Rob Minkoff regarding the "Kimba" controversy:
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SyFy Wire Exclusive: ORIGINAL LION KING WRITER Linda Woolverton AND DIRECTOR Rob Minkoff ADDRESS ‘KIMBA’ CONTROVERSY 25 YEARS LATER
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WAS IT NECESSARY FOR DISNEY TO RIP OFF KIMBA? NO! BUT THEY DID IT ANYWAY!
This is an INTERESTING STORY that was GREATLY AIDED by the EYE CATCHING CAPITALIZATION in the TITLE.
i thought they were going to address the "nala" being Simba's sister thing, and then i remembered nala's name is actually nala and not kimba
I could believe this if the similarities to Kimba ended at plot points, but some of the frame comparisons are pretty damning.
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That's what I was expecting to be honest.
Then I looked up Kimba, assuming Disney ripped off the story. Then I read the plot description for Kimba. Seems more ambitious than Lion King tbh
Yeah, it's honestly fairly believable this is just parallel thinking. King of the Jungle + Shakespeare.
Yeah, I'm still in shock over that thread where people said they were obviously different and it was just a meme.
Would it have been so controversial to just acknowledge the influence back then? The actual end products were fairly different. Seems like denying it all was the more shitty thing to do.
I could believe Disney doing something similar once, even then a stretch, but they have a history of doing this to lesser known foreign stories.
So bollocks.
So bollocks.
"No one brought it up, talked about it, discussed it — nobody mentioned that there was even any similarity. It was only after the film was made that people said, 'Hey, this is based on Kimba.'
Roy Disney literally referenced Kimba on a message board prior to release and Simba's VA literally thought it was a Kimba remake.
Roy Disney literally referenced Kimba on a message board prior to release and Simba's VA literally thought it was a Kimba remake.
No, that's how you get sued and Disney use just this kind of thing to attack others so they can't use it as a defense.
Does anyone honestly care about the Kimba thing?
I mean like genuinely care not in a "That's kind of sucky but whatever" way.
I mean like genuinely care not in a "That's kind of sucky but whatever" way.
Yes. Knowing Lion King was a rip-off made me not like it anymore.
I would understand Disney's arguments if there were only a couple scenes that were similar, but when you have like 30 there's no way it's a coincidence across the board.
Having said that, The Lion King is my favorite Disney movie.
Having said that, The Lion King is my favorite Disney movie.
I mean, "Disney's first original animation" and it just happen to share several similitudes to someone else's work?
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Disney still care enough to send Cease & Desist letters to showings of Jungle Emperor Leo.
It's fucking Hamlet with lions jesus that was what they were going for because it's the most famous Shakespeare thing and Lions are kings which is what the main characters in Hamlet basically are. It doesn't even have nearly as many similarities as you think (besides some superficial ones) it's just a dumb meme repeated in nerd spheres to make them seem more knowledgeable and cultured than they actually are.
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Matthew Broderick also told everyone he was going to play "Kimba" for a while, when asked why he said he must have gotten confused and it was Simba.
He said he was familiar with the Kimba anime before he got the role...
I know it's easier to just skip the OP, type whatever, then leave the thread, but at that point, why even post? What do you get?
Huh? I did and I don't understand the aggression. It was originally noticed by people on the internet. The Roy Disney and Broderick quotes were uncovered later. But honestly comparing both has always been more reductive than it seems not only because they're actually way different from each other but both artists were basically at the peak of that time.
