Disney ‘basically built a multiplayer VR filmmaking game’ for directing The Lion King

Disney is releasing a photorealistic CGI remake of 1994 classic The Lion King this summer. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the director Jon Favreau revealed how he actually directed the film in VR.

Disney’s previous remakes of classic titles, such as The Jungle Book, mixed real actors and sets with CGI objects and environments. This is a normal way to introduce a new technology but it limits what the director can do compared to a fully computer generated shot.