If you’ve already seen Disney’s live-action adaptation of The Lion King, then you may be wondering just how they pulled off it off.
IGN visited the film set during production and came away with seven cool factoids about how it was made.
They Filmed The Lion King Inside a VR Video Game
The movie was shot inside a video game world created to look like the iconic settings from The Lion King. Director Jon Favreau and his fellow filmmakers put on VR headsets to scout the in-game locations and line up shots, then programmed the animal characters to “perform” according to the script. Once they got everything just right, they filmed each scene and sent it to a visual effects house to finalize it for the big screen.
Source: IGN.com The Lion King: 7 Cool Behind-the-Scenes Facts