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Director Barry Jenkins raised a lot of eyebrows a couple months ago when it was officially announced that he had signed on to direct a follow-up to Jon Favreau s
The Lion King for Walt Disney Studios â a project that has since been confirmed to be a Mufasa-centric prequel. To date, the Oscar-winning filmmaker has exclusively made independent dramas, his resume including the awesome trio of features
Medicine For Melancholy,
If Beale Street Could Talk, and many fans didn t know what to make of him moving to helm a big studio blockbuster.
The truth of the matter is, however, that a quality script can grasp the attention of any director, and it s because of what the filmmaker saw on the page that attracted him to the untitled