The Good Lion

The Good Lion is a 2012 South African-American-British 3D computer-animated fantasy epic comedy-drama action-adventure film directed by Duncan MacNeillie, Wayne Thornley and Anthony Silverston, produced by Wayne Thornley, Mike Buckland, Jean-Michel Koenig, James Middleton, Andrew Cook and Anthony Silverston and written by Andrew Cook and Raffaella Delle Donne.

The true story about a lion who was separated from his family when he meet new friends and embark on a incredible journey that never forgets. Kiefer Sutherland, Joaquin Phoenix, Christian Bale, Idris Elba, Laurence Fishburne, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Simon Pegg, Michael Clarke Duncan, Zach Braff, Geoffrey Rush, Anthony LaPaglia, David Wenham and Rowan Atkinson were voicing the characters while other vocal performances were done by Hugo Weaving, Jeremy Irons, Rupert Everett, Sam Elliott and Amy Smart in her first animation debut.

The film takes place in Africa along with South Africa, West Africa and Ireland while the film shares similarities with The Land Before Time, The Lion King, Tarzan, Dinosaur and Brother Bear. The animated film was premiered on TIFF on October 7, 2011 and it was released in South Africa on March 23, 2012 by Indigenous Film Distribution.

The film was translated into 10001 languages and countries around the world. It earned $28.42 million on a $20 million budget.

Production
In Febuaury 2008, the animation African film was in production. On March 14, 2008, Wayne Thornley will be the director of the film. On May 23, 2008, Disney press charges of an African film to make this a 3D animated thriller drama comedy family film as animals. On June 4, 2008, The directors had shooting scenes were live-action backgrounds along with CGI animation in South Africa like Dinosaur. The crew would made this South African movie by shooting live action backgrounds from July 2008 to January 2010.

In September 2009, the voice talents were cast as Kiefer Sutherland, Joaquin Phoenix, Idris Elba, Christian Bale, Rowan Atkinson, David Wenham, Zach Braff, Simon Pegg, Michael Clarke Duncan, Anthony LaPaglia, Jim Carrey, Laurence Fishburne, Catherine Tate, Joe Pantoliano, Miriam Margoyles, Rupert Everett, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Hugo Weaving, Sam Elliott, Geoffrey Rush, John Leguizamo, Amy Smart, Eric Bana, Bruce Spence, Richard E. Grant, Jenifer Lewis, Jeremy Irons, AnnaSophia Robb, Ben Kingsley and John Hurt all joined the cast of the film.

On March 4, 2010, Cinema Management Group, Sony Pictures, Entertianment One and Entertianment Film Distributors acquired distribution rights to the film.

Soundtrack
Disney released an official soundtrack of the film that was released on July 22, 2011 before the film's release. The score was composed by Hans Zimmer, John Powell and Mark Mancina with additional score by Lorne Balfe and Lebo M. Phil Collins, Bryan Adams and Sting did songs of the film.

Songs

 * 1.Two Worlds - Phil Collins
 * 2.On My Way - Phil Collins
 * 3.Here I Am - Bryan Adams
 * 4.Strangers Like Me - Phil Collins
 * 5.Welcome - Phil Collins
 * 6.You'll Be In My Heart - Phil Collins
 * 7.No Way Out - Phil Collins
 * 8.I Will Always Return - Bryan Adams
 * 9.You Can't Take Me - Bryan Adams
 * 10.Brothers Under The Sun - Bryan Adams
 * 11.I Will Always Return (Reprise) - Bryan Adams, Zimmer, Powell, Mancina
 * 12.Two Worlds (Reprise) - Phil Collins, Zimmer, Mancina, Powell.
 * 13.My Funny Friend and Me - Sting.
 * 14.Leaving Home (Find My Way) - Phil Collins
 * 15.Who Am I - Phil Collins

Trivia

 * The film was set in Africa, some of the animals are computer-animated, CGI and live-action were buffaloes, hyenas, wolves, panthers, jaguars, elephants, polar bears, rhinos, meerkats, wildebeests, gazelles, leopards, vultures, pelicans, deers, crows, bees, bugs and pigs.
 * Joaquin Phoenix previously voiced an animal in Brother Bear in 2003.
 * Christian Bale had voiced Gary, a snow leopard who voiced Thomas in Pocahontas.
 * The sun that rises in the evening high in the background is actually real when directors shoot the daytime in the evening sequence.
 * Kiefer Sutherland and Amy Smart previously starred in Mirrors in 2008 for 4 years.
 * Richard E. Grant, Jenifer Lewis, Catherine Tate, Laurence Fishburne and AnnaSophia Robb have all starred in animated South-African films, Grant and Lewis will starred in Zambezia one month later and Robb was in Khumba one year later with Richard E. Grant, Catherine Tate and Laurence Fishburne.
 * Jeremy Irons previously voiced an animal in The Lion King in 1994.
 * Phil Collins had sung the rest of the songs in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Korean and Japanese versions of the film. He also sing the rest of the languages of the film. Also, Bryan Adams sing the songs i of the languages inculding German, French, Japan and Italian.
 * Hugo Weaving and John Hurt previously starred in V for Vendetta for 7 years.
 * The second collaboration between Phil Collins and Bryan Adams in a Disney film. They both sing songs both in the films soundtrack and the movie.