Though Scar is still dead when he appears in the show, in keeping with his death in 1994's "The Lion King," he appears as a spirit to continue to fight Simba from the grave.

In Mufasa: The Lion King the fact that Taka and Scar are one isn’t established until the movie’s climax. Throughout the movie, Taka’s jealousy leads him to ally with Kiros and the Outsiders.

One lion will always kind of be off in the shadows. We were trying to use those animal truths to underpin the story so we sort of figured Scar and Mufasa couldn’t really be from the same gene ...

The director and producer of Disney’s 1994 critically acclaimed film “The Lion King” said that Mufasa and Scar, two lions in the movie, are not actually brothers.

The Lion King prequel will dig into the backstory of Scar, Kelvin Harrison Jr. has teased. Harrison Jr. is voicing the future Disney villain in the film, which is set to tell the story of Mufasa.

Scar first sought out Nala as his queen in the original 'Lion King' movie In the 1994 movie, there was a deleted sequence in which Scar decided he needed a queen and tried to creepily pursue Nala.

In this new “Lion King” characters are more fully detailed, the violence and the scenic grandeur greater and that goes double for Scar. Ejiofor, 42, knew going in that his was a hard act to ...

Still though, it's easy to see why Scar would want to remember that day, and in the words of a wise baboon, "Change is good!" The Lion King is out in cinemas now.

Be prepared: Scar’s backstory will be different in Mufasa: The Lion King. In Disney’s original animated version of The Lion King, the treacherous Scar (voiced by Jeremy Irons) murdered his ...