The Lion King is a 1994 American animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 32nd film in the Disney animated feature canon, and the highest-grossing traditionally animated feature film in the United States. It is loosely based on the Shakespeare play Hamlet. The film focuses on a young lion in Africa named Simba, who learns of his place in the "Circle of Life" while overcoming various obstacles to become the rightful king.
The Lion King is a musical film, with songs written by composer Elton John and lyricist Tim Rice, and a film score by Hans Zimmer. The score and one of its songs, ("Can You Feel the Love Tonight", see below) won Academy Awards. Disney later produced two related movies: a sequel, The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, and a part prequel/part midquel, The Lion King 1½.
A young lion prince is born in Africa, thus making his uncle Scar the second in line to the throne. Scar plots with the hyenas to kill King Mufasa and Prince Simba, thus making himself King. The King is killed and Simba is led to believe by Scar that it was his fault, and so flees the kingdom in shame. After years of exile he is persuaded to return home to overthrow the usurper and claim the kingdom as his own thus completing the "Circle of Life". Written by King of Hearts
