“There’s a lot of room to run if we can find the stories,” Bailey said of a possible Lion King universe. In an interview with The New York Times, Sean Bailey, president of Walt Disney Pictures, said that there is the potential for Lion King to expand into "a big, epic saga" like Star Wars. A follow-up film is already on the way, and Disney's chief executive has now hinted that the studio is exploring a larger Lion King universe similar to the Star Wars saga. One of these, 2019's adaptation of The Lion King from director Jon Favreau, generated more than $1.6 billion at the global box office. Bailey believes that The Lion King franchise has “big, epic saga” potential on the level of something like Star Wars, noting “There’s a lot of room to run if we can find the stories.It seems Walt Disney Pictures has a never-ending stream of live-action remakes for fans of the franchise to look forward to. He’s also working on Mufasa, the Lion King prequel directed by Oscar winner Barry Jenkins, due out in 2024. Two admirable goals, but absolutely unnecessary for productions like Moana and Lilo and Stitch.
Bailey-whose “division makes two or three big-budget films annually for release in theaters and three modestly budgeted movies for Disney+”-says that one of the main reasons for these live-action adaptations is to find a way to “make Disney stories less retrograde.” By this he means less overwhelmingly misogynist and white. This figure comes courtesy of a new profile in the New York Times. As live-action takes on Moana, Hercules, Lilo and Stitch, and Snow White are all churning their way through the Mouse House production factory, the man leading the “reimagination” is Walt Disney Pictures president Sean Bailey, who has at least 50 more projects waiting in the wings. The Little Mermaid is only the newest of Disney’s animated adaptations.
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