The Lion King is a movie directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff in 1994 and based on the book King Lear by William Shakespeare, first published in 1605. The movie features Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones, Rowan Atkinson, Niketa Calame-Harris, Jim Cummings, and others.
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Movie vs Book
Year
1994
Minutes
88
Movie Rate
8.50
Source: IMDb
Year
1605
Pages
320
Book Rate
7.82
S: Goodreads
Book
King Lear
Author: William Shakespeare
Country: UK
First published in: 1605
Length: 320 pages
Genre: Play
Other screen adaptations of the book
Movie by Akira Kurosawa
Movie by Jon Favreau
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“If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.”
BRET EASTON ELLIS (Writer)
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