The director and producer of Disney's The Lion King has claimed in an interview that Mufasa and Scar are not brothers.
The movie's director Rob Minkoff and producer Don Hahn told Hello Giggles that the pair are not brothers because that would not accurately reflect how lions operate in the wild. Apparently it's okay for them to talk though.
"(While making the movie) we talked about the fact that it was very likely (Scar and Mufasa) would not have both the same parents," Hahn told Hello Giggles.
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"The way lions operate in the wild...when the male lion gets old, another rogue lion comes and kills the head of the pride. What that does is it causes the female lions to go into heat [to reproduce], and then the new younger lion kills the king and then he kills all the babies. Now he's the new lion that's running the pride.
"There was always this thing about well, how do you have these two (male) lions?" Hahn said.
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"Occasionally there are prides that do have two male lions, in an interesting dynamic because they're not equals (since they don't have the same parents). One lion will always kind of be off in the shadows. We were trying to use those animal truths to underpin the story so we sort of figured Scar and Mufasa couldn't really be from the same gene pool."
Yet during the movie, Scar tells Mufasa: "I'm from the shallow end of the gene pool," when Mufasa confronted Scar about his absence at Mufasa's son Simba's coronation, which seems to contradict the interview.
Here's how Twitter reacted to the news:
Let's be honest, they're anthropomorphic lion animations in a two decade old film, who gives a shit whether they obey the laws of nature: they are brothers.
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