‘The Lion King’ follow-up set with ‘Moonlight’ director Barry Jenkins
The Walt Disney Studios has set Oscar winner Barry Jenkins to direct the studio’s follow-up to the 2019 blockbuster The Lion King. Jeff Nathanson, who scripted the last installment, is back in the fold and has completed an initial draft of script. Jenkins won the Oscar for scripting the Best Picture winner Moonlight and was nominated for adapting If Beale Street Could Talk (he directed both). The film will continue with the photo-realistic technology that director Jon Favreau used in […]







