Mads Mikkelsen is also the voice for Kiros in the Danish version. His older brother Lars Mikkelsen is the voice for Scar in the Danish version of The Lion King from 2019.
During "I Always Wanted a Brother", Mufasa looks up into the starry night while remembering his mother. If viewed closely, the eyes of a lion are visible in the sky, showing that a Great King of the Past is watching Mufasa.
Each lion in the film featured over 30,000,000 hairs to achieve the realistic look of fur. Just Mufasa's mane on its own was made up of 16,995,454 hair curves. The lion has 600,000 hairs on his ears, 6.2 million hairs on his legs, and 9 million hairs covering the middle portion of his body. Simulating realistic lion manes for the assembled lions required 40,000-80,000 dynamic curves per character, with custom presets for different weather and physical conditions. Long shots took up to a week per iteration, with final fur caches exceeding 800 GB.
Braelyn Rankins (Young Mufasa) first acted as Simba at age 7 in his elementary school play, two years before he started working as a professional actor.
In the film, Mufasa and Scar are shown to not be related by royal blood, despite prior films stating otherwise. In Le Roi lion (1994), Scar was initially written to not have any blood relation to Mufasa before the writers ultimately decided to make the two characters brothers, as they felt it would make the plot more interesting.
Lin-Manuel Miranda: the movies songwriter appears as a member of the Congress of Baboons who votes to exile Rafiki.