- Target:
- Disney Animation Studios
- Region:
- United States of America
- Website:
- kopapetition.weebly.com
As of June 2014, Disney has announced that they will be making a new Lion King film to be aired on November 2015 called "The Lion Guard".
This new series was expected by many Lion King fans to include the long-neglected son of Simba, Kopa, who stars in the 1994 series of Disney books, "The Lion King: Six New Adventures". However, Disney has again neglected to include this character, and has instead inserted a new character called Kion to take the leading role.
For Lion King fans, this makes a very irksome situation, because it will leave Kopa in a permanently half-canonized position - alive in the books, but unseen in the films (with the possible exception of Fluffy). This has led to much grief over the years within Lion King fandom, as the only plausible explanation for Kopa's apparent dissapearance from the films would be his death.
Being omitted from Lion King 2 was bad enough; if Kopa's neglected again, he will remain suspended forever in a literary limbo, suffering an eternity of torment and death within the fan-fic universe.
This film is our last best chance to save Kopa by canonizing him into film, thus resolving many of the loose threads running through the timeline of the Lion King series.
Dear Disney Animation Studios:
As admirers of Disney films, and the Lion King series in particular, we have been pleased to learn of a new feature based on this series scheduled for release on November of 2015.
As we read into the projected storyline however, we were deeply dissapointed to learn that the main character is to be a newly-made character called "Kion".
If this is to be the main character, is Disney then going to sentance Simba's other cub from the 1994 book series, Kopa, to permanent oblivion?
This would be, in our opinion, a grave mistake. It would add more confusion between the canon of the books and films, remove a potentially great leading character, and leave Kopa's fate in question.
For Kopa to be omitted from "Lion King 2" was bad enough; to be replaced again by Kion will seal his fate, and he will spend an eternity in half-canon, fan-made literary limbo.
Please have mercy on this hapless cub, and consider putting him into the new film.
Best Regards,
The TLK Community
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The Kopa for "Lion Guard" petition to Disney Animation Studios was written by Robert Olin and is in the category Films & Movies at GoPetition.