| NightlyPoe said: 1: Again, though, I've gotta ask: Why lie? And how have they managed to keep the lie all these years without someone saying "Yeah, we sat down and copied all that"? 2: People in Japan would have been thrilled to see a nod in Tezuka's direction and it would have probably helped sell more tickets. It's not like there's enough similarities for there to be any legal action. |
1: What makes you think that Disney would ever allow them to say bold?
"The Lion King director Roger Allers had previously lived in Tokyo and worked in animation there during the 1980s, when Tezuka had already become known as "Japan's Walt Disney" and a remake of Kimba was airing on prime time television. Animators Tom Sito and Mark Kausler, who both have story credits, have admitted to watching Kimba, and assumed many of their colleagues had too, especially if they grew up in the 1960s. Fred Ladd, who was involved early on with importing Kimba and other Japanese anime into America for NBC, stated there was at least one animator remembered by his colleagues as being an avid Kimba fan and being quite vociferous about Disney's conduct during production." (link)
2: That come off as disingenious. What the Japanese animators hope to see is simply Disney acknowledging due credit to Osamu Tezuka who died the same year that Disney started to make The Lion King.
