Nitrol wrote:Greetings!
First, I wanna apologize if there are any grammar mistakes - English
isn't my native language.
In your mail to other The Lion King fan (
http://i1215.photobucket.com/albums/cc5 ... _email.png) you write:
"I believe the books were published sometime before the movie"
Question is: did you mean before The Lion King or before The Lion King
2: Simba's Pride?
Second question: you're author of the "Tale of Two Brothers", but did
you take part in making the other TLK6NA books?
Third question (this one is from my friend Ola): Were there any other
ideas - how Taka got his scar?
"I had no contact with them about the characters after the book
project, so I suspect they did not" - you were right, they didn't
know. This is excerpt from an interview with Phil Weinstein:
Aniu: Well, in regards to The Lion King 2, how involved were you as far as
production of the movie and, I guess, story-wise?
Phil: For Lion King 2 , I was a storyboard artist, and I was—believe
it or not, the
movie went through a series of directors that were hired and fired in
Lion King 2 .
The very first directing/producing team that was on-board, I was
actually part of the
very original development group that was on that. So I was developing
characters,
and we were working on story scenarios. And one day they fired that
director and
writer team. And I stayed with Disney, but I moved on to some other
director/video
projects. And then a couple of years later, I came back to the project
as a storyboard
artist. And I ended up storyboarding a lot of songs, so I think—if I remember—I
storyboarded or helped storyboard a lot of the songs. I can’t remember
all of them,
but that’s—Most of those direct-to-videos back then had one or two songs, and
pretty much all of them from the Aladdin sequels on forward had them, even Lion
King 2 .
(...)
Skul: Okay.
Aniu: Are you familiar with Kopa, the original son of Simba and Nala?
And if so, was
there a reason you all opted not to put him in The Lion King 2?
Phil: No…what was his name?
Aniu: Apparently his name was Kopa, and it was—I forget exactly where the fan
knowledge comes from, because I’m not—
Skul: [interrupting] I can answer that. Kopa was the son of Simba and Nala in a
series of books that were published immediately after The Lion King .
And there were
six books total, all of them 100-page kids books, but they all had Kopa in them.
Phil: Wow. No, I wasn’t aware of that.
Skul: Yeah. A bunch of people have been wondering why it was Kiara instead of
Kopa in Lion King 2 . And, I guess not even you know the answer.
Phil: No, you’re going to have to track down—gosh, I can’t even
remember. Who was
it…was it Darrell Rooney that directed Lion King 2 ? Is that right? I
think he was the
one who ended up taking it to the finish line.
Aniu: Okay.
[Note from Skul: Yes, Darrell Rooney was the director]
Phil: So you’ll have to find him or one of the writers and ask them.
They might know.
Aniu: Okay. We’ll definitely have to track him down and ask that question
eventually.
At the end I just want to say that you're author of the most popular
book from The Lion King universe. ...I personally know more people who
like TLK6NA than The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride. And I'm one of these
people.
Best regards,
Lucas
I'll tell you what i traded them for in the lion king collection thread once i get them. 
