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Watch the very first trailer for Disney’s The Lion King remake

I feel like you’re looking at this purely from your own perspective and trying to defend the original as timeless. While I personally agree, having this updated with names kids recognize and marketing a shiny new release is a lot more appealing to kids than simply putting a movie from a quarter century ago back in theaters.

The simple answer to your question of why are these needed is they’re not needed at all, no movies are needed . If we’re getting down to it, the reason studios do this is because they make them easy money. They obviously do market research and figured this has the chance to make them more money than a simple rerelease. You also have to consider from a business perspective, that this will not only sell tickets it will also make a lot of people buy the original to show their kids.