Mufasa falls off a cliff, nearly drowns, fights a much bigger foe and ends up on a snow-covered mountain. There is never a ...

Screenwriter Jeff Nathanson breaks down how 'Mufasa,' now in theaters, connects back to original 'Lion King' saga.

Spoiler alert for those 30 years behind, but the way Scar brutally thrust Mufasa off a cliff into a stampede has indeed traumatized young Lion King viewers for generations. So how did they go from ...

Mufasa: The Lion King has been released in theaters and if you are planning on watching it, I might have bad news for you in this review.

(As discussed in more detail below, Taka was Scar's name before his fall from grace ... of a chaotic stampede set off by Scar, Mufasa attempts to climb up a cliff and calls out to his brother ...