Pinkology

Disney announced the cast of the new Lion King movie last Wednesday, November 1. The movie is scheduled to release the summer of 2019.       T he mentioned cast includes Beyonce who will voice Nala which has sparked lots of reactions from her fans and critics. Beyonce also posted the same picture Disney did on  her Facebook   shortly after they released the cast on  a Facebook post . Among the new cast Disney casted James Earl Jones to voice Mufasa as he also did in the original movie. Keeping one original cast member, Disney casted a diverse team for this movie.          I n the original Lion King released in 1994, white actors dominated the cast. Now about 23 years later, they have a cast that is a majority of black actors and actresses. Many fans have noticed this and are appreciative of the diversity in the upcoming film.         Many contradicting twitter reactions were posted on the replies to  Disney's twitter post . Many of the replies included the same  gif