royal aide Zazu, evil Scar and even Pride Rock come from. Who cares? The backstories only make us crave the peerless 2D original. In 1994, “The Lion King” was a big and bold risk for Disney.

The story also involves the mandrill Rafiki and the hornbill Zazu. It is a frame story, narrated by Rafiki as he tells the story to Simba and Nala’s daughter, Kiara in the future. Timon and ...

Before Simba, there was Mufasa, and his and Scar’s story gets told in Disney’s prequel film Mufasa ... the parents of Mufasa and Taka, a young Zazu and Rafiki and also Kiara, daughter of ...