ELTON JOHN AND BEYONCE RECORDING TRACKS FOR REMAKE OF THE LION KING
THE Lion King soundtrack is pretty roar-some as it is, but BEYONCE and ELTON JOHN are primed to improve on perfection.
They are to revamp the score for the upcoming CG-animated movie, recording new songs and reworking the classics.
The pair are to team up in a US studio later this month. It comes after speculation that the duo would re-record songs from the original soundtrack.
A source said: “Beyonce has already started working on the soundtrack with HANS ZIMMER, who scored the original film, and she knew it wouldn’t be right to do it without Elton on board.
“She was the one who reached out to him last year. “The finer details of Elton’s contract are being worked out, then they plan to enter the studio together in the US.
“He is a big fan of hers and shares her vision of what they could do together.
“Circle Of Life and Can You Feel The Love Tonight are such classics, but they want to add new songs which will become classics in their own right.
“It was really important to Beyonce that she was heavily involved in creating the soundtrack. She is putting a lot of time and effort into the film and she is confident it will be huge.”
Beyonce voices Nala in the remake of the 1994 Disney film, directed by JON FAVREAU. She is part of an all-star voice cast that includes DONALD
GLOVER as Simba, JAMES EARL JONES as Mufasa, CHIWETEL EJIOFOR as Scar, and BILLY EICHNER and SETH ROGEN as Timon and Pumbaa. As well as aiming for a box office smash, Lion King backers hope it will also reclaim from Frozen the record for most weeks at the top of the album charts for an animated film soundtrack.
If anyone can get that record back, it’s Elt and Bey.