The Lion King influenced The Lion King

A shot-for-shot remake in photoreal CGI, with the same story, the same script in long stretches, the same songs and James Earl Jones back as Mufasa. The interesting part is what the technique costs. Realistic lions cannot make the expressions the 1994 animation used to carry the performance, so the same lines land differently; that trade is most of what was written about the film. Recorded as a remake rather than an adaptation because it retells the same work in the same medium.