Barry Jenkins To Direct ‘Lion King’ Follow-Up

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Barry Jenkins To Direct ‘Lion King’ Follow-Up

NEW YORK (AP) — The Walt Disney Co. will make a follow-up to the 2019 live-action “The Lion King,” with Barry Jenkins, the director of the Oscar-winning “Moonlight” and the James Baldwin adaptation “If Beale Street Could Talk,” set to direct. Disney announced plans Tuesday for a kind of prequel to last year's poorly reviewed […]

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