UPDATE: Jon Favreau’s Live Action ‘The Lion King’ Roars Towards A 2019 Release Date + Timon & Pumba Cast!

UPDATE: Right after writing this original article, news came out that Seth Rogen and Bille Eichner will be voicing Timon and Pumba for the film. It seems as though they are still getting mostly new people for these roles. Fingers crossed for Irons still. 

Jon Favreau’s live action adaption of The Lion King finally has a release date!

While not necessarily highly anticipated, people seem interested in seeing how the Iron Man series director can handle one of Disney’s biggest animated juggernauts after succeeding pretty well in the live action fairy tail space with last years The Jungle Book.  The film is set to STAMPEDE (sorry too soon?) into theaters on July 19th 2019. Not much is known about the film still, but we do know that Donald Glover will be voicing Adult Simba, as well as the legendary James Earl Jones reprising his role as the king of the pride lands himself, Mufasa. No word on if Jeremy Irons will return as Scar, but we can dream at how great that’d be until Disney cruelly rips it away from us. Are you excited for this remake? Tell us in the comments and check out Favreau’s tease below!

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— Jon Favreau (@Jon_Favreau) April 25, 2017