Before knowing who he was, Aaron Pierre felt James Earl Jones in his soul. While Pierre plays a young Mufasa in the Disney prequel “Mufasa: The Lion King” (in theaters now), Jones originated ...

And with crowd-pleasing “Mufasa: The Lion King” (★★★ out of four; rated PG; in theaters Friday), the Oscar-winning “Moonlight” filmmaker brings impressive depth to the Shakespearean ...

The film begins in a place known as Milele, which means “forever” in Swahili. Here, Mufasa’s parents, Masego and Afia, told their cub about a promised land with rain, no drought, food ...