DISNEY IN SHAMBLES as LEGEND BEHIND ‘THE LION KING’ DIES SUDDENLY. Was Hollywood’s Greedy Remake Machine the REAL Killer?
Roger Allers, the visionary co-director of the 1994 masterpiece, is dead at 76. His passing, CONFIRMED while he was traveling in Egypt, sends a chilling tremor through an industry he helped build—an industry that has since BETRAYED his legacy for BILLIONS.
This is not just the loss of a “joyful spirit.” This is the END of an era of ORIGINALITY. Allers’ classic, a film of HEART and SOUL that grossed $771 million, was later VIOLATED by Disney’s 2019 soulless CGI remake—a corporate zombie that shamelessly raked in a RECORD $1.6 BILLION. The studio made a FORTUNE cannibalizing his art while the true artist fades from memory.
Insiders are asking HARSH questions. Did the relentless churn of sequels, prequels, and live-action ABOMINATIONS—a machine Allers was marginally tied to with projects like ‘The Lion King 1 ½’—suck the magic dry? His filmography, from ‘Aladdin’ to ‘The Little Matchgirl,’ represents a creative renaissance that today’s executives have SYSTEMATICALLY DESTROYED in pursuit of easy profit.
The truth is UGLY and Disney doesn’t want you to see it: the king is dead, and the hyenas now rule a barren, creatively bankrupt kingdom. The circle of life has been broken by the endless, empty cycle of cash.
Ask yourself, what REALLY dies when the last guardian of authentic storytelling falls? The magic is gone, and the silence is DEAFENING.
Edited for Kayitsi.com
Author: Kayitsi.com
