5 Facts: The Lion King

1). Initially the film was going to be about a conflict between lions and baboons, and Scar was going to be the baboon leader. Rafiki was going to be a cheetah.

2). Pumbaa was the first character to fart in a Disney movie.

3). ‘Can you Feel the Love Tonight?’ was originally supposed to be a comic duet between Timon and Pumbaa. Composer Elton John said he had a feeling the song wouldn’t win an Oscar award if the song was sung by a warthog and meerkat.

4). The wildebeest stampede took Disney's CG department approximately three years to animate. A new computer program had to be written for the CG wildebeest stampede that allowed hundreds of computer generated animals to run but without colliding into each other.

5). During "Be Prepared", the hyenas' marching past Scar on the elevated rock was inspired by footage of Nazis marching by Adolf Hitler on a podium.