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Chocolate wrote in with a submission which formed the inspiration for this story.

Despite making over $1.8 billion at the box office, the 2019 Lion King remake was not fully appreciated by all audiences. Many critics took aim at the lack of facial expressions. In response to the criticism artist Nikolay Mochkin and Instagram user @jonty_pressinger worked together to redo parts of the movie with deepfake style technology to give the characters more expressive range.

The result has been hailed by some as a success with people asking the duo to remake the entire movie in this style. Others have claimed the 2019 version was supposed to be live action and more realistic; that this attempt to add expression missed the point.

Yes, the original release of "The Lion King" was 25 years ago.

Original Submission

1. "Chocolate" - https://soylentnews.org/~Chocolate/
2. "lack of facial expressions" - https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/movies/new-movies/lion-king-remake-a-disaster-say-early-reviewers/news-story/585d230e70ec5c0c7e4d4190640117a3
3. "artist Nikolay Mochkin and Instagram user @jonty_pressinger" - https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/movies/the-lion-king-remake-gets-deepfake-makeover/news-story/608c9bd8892f8f23f6a7e85d35a165f4
4. "give the characters more expressive range" - https://www.youtube.com/embed/0PW2Ycb0Po4?wmode=transparent&jqoemcache=pJw9D
5. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=35550

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