jeremy irons was the actor who provided the singing voice for scar in the 1994 animated film the lion king.
who is the actor who provided the singing voice for scar in the 1994 animated film the lion king?
jeremy irons
while recording scar's song "be prepared," irons encountered challenges with his voice. the actor reportedly "blew out his voice" upon belting the line "you won't get a sniff without me," rendering him incapable of completing the musical number. consequently, disney was forced to recruit american voice actor jim cummings, who had also been providing the voice of "the lion king"s laughing hyena ed at the time, to impersonate irons and record the rest of the song. jim cummings told "the huffington post "that "[s]tunt singing" is actually something the actor continues to do regularly, having done the same for american actor russell means, voice of chief powhatan in disney's "pocahontas "(1995). critics observed that irons "fakes his way ... through 'be prepared' in the grand tradition of talk-singing," drawing similarities between him and american actor james cagney and english actor rex harrison. deja revealed that, during a recording session, irons' stomach was grumbling. deja joked, "the growling sound could be heard in his recording, so we had to record that part of his dialog all over again." as a result of irons' prominent british accent, critics have compared both the actor and scar to shere khan, the villain of disney's "the jungle book "(1967), voiced by english actor george sanders.
scar (the lion king)
disney's 1994 animated film "the lion king" won multiple awards and garnered financial success. its merchandise sold well through the disney store and disney's mail order catalogue, and their product licensees had an upturn in sales. the company began to cross-market the property throughout its walt disney attractions, buena vista television, buena vista home video, walt disney records, and disney theatrical productions divisions. disney wanted to "add to the "lion king" synergy of book, products, video, theme park units and recording sales" by having an animated storybook available by the 1994 christmas shopping season. a new product line was announced on june 24, 1994, while "the lion king" was in private screenings. the announcement included disney software's first two cd-rom based computer games: "the lion king animated storybook" and "aladdin activity center", the latter of which would focus on games and learning activities rather than story. additionally, a series of screensaver programs featuring scenes from disney films were to be published"." disney chose media station as its third-party developer for the game; media station had 30 employees, led by david gregory. due to the announcement, media station thus had only five months of development time. "the" "lion king animated storybook" more closely followed the narrative and art style of the film it was based on than "aladdin activity center", released november 1994, did to "aladdin". for "the lion king animated storybook", the written text of the game is excerpted from disney publishing group's "the lion king" storybook, which reproduces the film's narrative in a truncated version. disney spent over $3 million on promotion for the animated storybook game. disney released the first version of "the lion king animated storybook" on november 18, 1994, and its success prompted the company to turn wdcs into a full game developer, renamed disney interactive, with a line of animated storybooks to follow entitled "disney's animated storybook". "the lion king" "animated storybook" would later be accompanied by a cd-rom, "the lion king activity center", in 1995, which started a trend that continued throughout the series. pixar developed both "toy story animated storybook" and "toy story activity center" simultaneously in 1996, while the "winnie the pooh in the honey tree" "animated storybook" would be met with a companion, "winnie the pooh activity center", in 2000. "the lion king animated" "storybook" became disney interactive's second release on the macintosh after the "aladdin activity center".
disney's animated storybook