HOW EXCITING!  Disney announces that Jon Favreau will direct the live-action version of The Lion King! No release date yet, but Favreau did the live-action version of The Jungle Book earlier this year and it was amazing (and made Disney over $950 million worldwide!).

Excited for my next project

A photo posted by Jon Favreau (@jonfavreau) on Sep 28, 2016 at 6:12am PDT

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