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Sources for today's episode include, but are not limited to, The Lion King, a memoir, Don Hahn's video documentary about the making of the film, The Making of The Lion King, the 1994 documentary, Disney War by James B. Stewart, Forbes' Circle of Life, an oral history of The Lion King for its 25th anniversary, And we do want to mention the Journal of Screenwriting's Creating the Lion King Story Development Authorship and Accreditation in the Disney Renaissance.

And I just want to point out, if you guys want a lot more detail on the scripting of this film, check out that Journal of Screenwriting article compendium about the creation of the film.

So Lizzie, authorship is at the core of today's episode because Victory has many fathers, including Jeffrey Katzenberg.

Lucky for him, Elton John actually didn't need much convincing.

He apparently was looking for a challenge and something new.

And again, according to Disney War, Katzenberg was the one who needed convincing.

And David Geffen was happy to oblige.

Yeah.

If anyone, you know, the Disney historians will know, you know, Disney War, which was a great, great book, all about the ascent of Michael Eisner and how it came crashing down.

Mm-hmm.

Such a good, good book.

And this kinda seems like, not a part two, but it, do you know what I mean? It, it, it kinda seems like a sequel of that, of, because it ends with Bob Iger taking over in Disney War.

So this is kinda like, okay, and what happened when Bob Iger, you know, left, and Bob Chapek.

Now, of course, it's not going to be as objective as Disney War, because it'll be, it's, it's Bob Chapek just basically standing by his guns and just chatting shit.

Um, but, you know, it's, it's definitely gonna be juicy.