Original link Lion King wiki article by HoneyFur -> https://lionking.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000002476283
Not sure if anyone's made a post about here (seemingly not?), but quite recently this image has been shared around online. The description reads:
[i]A user on our Discord recently uploaded this piece from an Instagram user who is claiming it to be official Simba's Pride concept artwork of Nunka, Shani, and their cubs. However, since we don't have an official source to verify its legitimacy, we can't add it to the articles. I can't personally find anything online to confirm its authenticity, but I figured I'd ask if anyone else knows where it originated.[/i]
As many of you know, Nunka and Shani are the original names for Kovu and Kiara before they split Kovu and Nuka into 2 different characters and went through many other choices until they settled on Kiara for her name. So technically speaking, this would imply that at one point in the movie they'd show Kovu and Kiara with 4 cubs until that was scrapped. This is entirely speculation though, and for now we cannot verify if this image is truly official, but from the concept/storyboard artstyle that I've seen, it does seem likely to some degree. What do you guys think? If anyone has any idea about its authenticity, feel free to share what you think.
(Many thanks to Wolf-Chalk on deviantArt for sharing this with me).
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EDIT:
If you click on the link you'll find that someone has already found more information about the drawing in particular. From what I understand, it's not really their 4 cubs, just 4 random cubs in the pride that decided to ask Kovu to share his meat with them.