Barry Jenkins isn’t necessarily feeling the love from every social media commenter over his involvement in Mufasa: The Lion King after the Disney prequel released its first trailer this week.

Barry Jenkins defended his involvement in “Mufasa: The Lion King” after he was criticized on social media this week for helming the Disney live-action prequel. Jenkins shared the first ...

Barry Jenkins Responds to Criticism That ‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ Is Part of “Soulless Machine” Jenkins defended working on his forthcoming prequel after Disney released the first trailer ...

Mufasa: The Lion King is not the eyesore of its predecessor. The sparkling clear eyes of cub Kiara alone prove that point. But neither is it the awe-inspiring vision of the 1994 original.

A prequel to the studio’s hand-drawn 1994 classic “The Lion King” and its 2019 GCI remake, the film explains how the king of all animals and his archnemesis, Scar, grew up as brothers.

Jenkins responded by sharing a number of kid-centric projects he had made and posted online around the time he was working on Moonlight. “There is nothing soulless about The Lion King ...

Mufasa: The Lion King is not the eyesore of its predecessor. The sparkling clear eyes of cub Kiara alone prove that point. But neither is it the awe-inspiring vision of the 1994 original.