by atouchofgrace » December 28th, 2010, 1:22 pm
Look, I think it's easy to understand.
You have the original movie, made by a talented crew, with a good budget, produced by Walt Disney Pictures, the real, the most official thing.
At the end we see "Fluffy", an unissex cub with no real name. Why? Because it's not important to the story AT ALL.
Who is Nala's father? We don't know. Why? Because it's not important to the story.
What happens? Money. The movie made a TON of it. Success.
What they do next? The obvious. Try to make more money out of it (aka milk the cash cow till it's dry - i.e. the High School Musical franchise)
So we have books, all from different authors, not from Disney.
They write the books. They're about The Lion King, they'll sell. Does Disney care about these books? No. It has some incoherencies but it's just to make some money, nothing serious.
Next? Continue to milk the cash cow even more. A sequel. Small budget, tv crew, sequel to a successful movie = perfect. Easy money.
New crew, new director, new vision of the first movie, new ideas. Is this new director forced to include the new book character? No.
This is the only sequel the movie has. This is The Lion King II, not The Lion King III.
Is the original crew involved in any single way? No.
Does Disney really care about this sequel? No. It has some incoherencies but it's just to make some money, nothing serious.
Next? Continue to milk the cash cow even more. A tv show. Small budget, tv crew, tv show of a succesful movie = perfect. Easy money. Does Disney really care about this tv show? No. It has some incoherencies but it's just to make some money, nothing serious.
Next? Continue to milk the cash cow even more. A new sequel. Made by the original crew? No. Made by the second crew (TLKII)? No. A whole new bunch of people? Yes. With a different visions and ideas? Yes. Does Disney really care about this sequel? No. It has some incoherencies but it's just to make some money, nothing serious.
Let's see we have: the original crew, 5 or 6 different authors to write the books, SP crew, T&P crew and TLK 1 1/2 crew.
Look how many people were involved.
Also, SNA are not the only books about TLK. I've seen books other than SNA with new characters, names and events where I live. And guess what? They're as "official" as SNA but people don't care about them because the fandom made SNA more popular.
Look at The Little Mermaid. 2 sequels, 1 tv show, TONS of books. Do they all make sense together? No. Were they all made by the same people and the same studio? No.
TLK is not the only thing Disney has to care about. Neither is The Little Mermaid.
You're caring too much about things Disney didn't care about at all to begin with.