In Disney’s original animated version of The Lion King, the treacherous Scar (voiced by Jeremy Irons) murdered his older brother, King Mufasa (James Earl Jones), usurped the throne as ruler of ...

Before Simba, there was Mufasa, and his and Scar’s story gets told in Disney’s prequel film Mufasa: The Lion King following the 2019 live-action version of the beloved animated 1994 classic.