According to ‘Lion King’ Producer/Director, Scar & Mufasa Were NOT Brothers

Disney’s The Lion King is one of the most iconic animated movies of all time and remains a favourite of mine.

It also features one of the more heart-wrenching scenes between lions Scar and Mufasa…

Very Shakespearean right?

But now it appears that we have been lied to OUR WHOLE LIVES!!

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Okay, maybe I’m being dramatic, but in a new interview with Lion King director Rob Minkoff and prodcer Don Hahn, Scar and Mufasa WEREN’T EVEN BROTHERS!

In an interview with Hello Giggles they revealed some big news, “[While making the movie] we talked about the fact that it was very likely [Scar and Mufasa] would not have both the same parents. The way lions operate in the wild…when the male lion gets old, another rogue lion comes and kills the head of the pride. What that does is it causes the female lions to go into heat [to reproduce], and then the new younger lion kills the king and then he kills all the babies. Now he’s the new lion that’s running the pride.”

They added, “There was always this thing about well, how do you have these two [male] lions? Occasionally there are prides that do have two male lions, in an interesting dynamic because they’re not equals [since they don’t have the same parents]. One lion will always kind of be off in the shadows. We were trying to use those animal truths to underpin the story so we sort of figured Scar and Mufasa couldn’t really be from the same gene pool. In fact, that’s what [Scar] says. There’s a line, he goes, ‘I’m from the shallow end of the gene pool.’ When he’s talking to Mufasa, when Mufasa gets mad at him for not coming up to the coronation of Simba.”

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