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⚫ | In this early scene, whether the hyenas ran away, were killed by the lions, or burned to death is unknown. Or whether Scar escaped the flames and lived or just died another way (for example, being mauled by the lions) is also unknown. As well as what happened to the lions, [[Timon]], [[Zazu]], [[Pumbaa]], and [[Rafiki]], did they burn to death like Scar? Were they devoured by the hyenas? Did they simply run away from the battlefield and never return? All those questions are unanswered due to the fact that the video to that scene just ends when Sarabi awakens. |
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− | is okay. When it is shown that the lion wakes up and smiles at Simba, it can be assumed that the lion is okay. (The lion's name was never revealed). |
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+ | ('''Scar '''walks out of his cave) |
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⚫ | In this early scene, whether the hyenas ran away, were killed by the lions, or burned to death is unknown. Or whether Scar escaped the flames and lived or just died another way (for example, being mauled by the lions) is also unknown. As well as what happened to the lions, [[Timon]], [[Zazu]], [[Pumbaa]], and [[Rafiki]], did they burn to death like Scar? Were they devoured by the hyenas? Did they simply run away from the battlefield and never return? All those questions are unanswered due to the fact that the video to that scene just ends when |
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+ | '''Scar''': SARABI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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+ | ('''Zazu '''hides in a cave) |
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+ | ('''Sarabi '''walks along the trail surrounded by hyenas, who growl, snap and scorn her) |
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+ | '''Hyenas:''' We're hungy! |
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+ | ('''Sarabi '''continues until she reaches Scar) |
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+ | '''Sarabi:''' Yes Scar? |
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+ | '''Scar: '''Where is your hunting party? They're not doing their job. |
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+ | '''Sarabi: '''Scar, there is no food. The herds have moved on. |
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+ | '''Scar: '''No, you're not looking hard enough |
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+ | '''Sarabi: '''It's over Scar, there's nothing left. We have only one choice, we must leave Pride Rock |
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+ | '''Scar''': No, no. We're not going anywhere. |
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+ | '''Sarabi:''' Then you are sentencing us to death |
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+ | '''Scar: '''Then so be it! I am the King! And I make the rules! |
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+ | '''Sarabi:''' If you were half the King '''Mufasa''' was..... |
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+ | ('''Scar '''strikes '''Sarabi''' and throws her off the cliff''')''' |
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+ | Scar: I AM TEN TIMES THE KING '''MUFASA''' WAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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+ | ('''Sarabi '''falls off of Pride Rock and tumbles to the base in a massive pile of hyenas, who all give way for the falling lioness) |
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+ | ('''Zazu '''flies down towards Sarabi) |
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+ | '''Zazu: '''Queen '''Sarabi!''' |
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+ | '''(Scar''' evilly smiles at her sister in law's near death) |
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+ | (Lighting strikes revealing '''Simba''', who grabs the attention of the hyenas and Scar.) |
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+ | ('''Simba''' walks down, revealing his face) |
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+ | ('''Scar '''thinks '''Simba''' is '''Mufasa''') |
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+ | '''Scar:''' Is it, could it be, Mufasa? It is the very image of my dear brother! Are you beast?! Or demon!? Have you been sent to torment me? Forgive me, brother! Have mercy on me! |
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+ | '''Simba''': Scar, what's happened to you? |
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+ | ('''Scar''' realizes who '''Simba''' is) |
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+ | '''Scar: '''You're not Mufasa! Simba. (Laughs) I never thought I'd see you again. |
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+ | ('''Scar''' glares at '''Shenzi, Banzai''', and '''Ed''', who argue about who's fault it is.) |
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+ | '''Banzai: '''(Don't look at me, you let him get away!) |
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+ | '''Simba: '''Why are they here? |
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+ | '''Scar:''' Simba, things have changed. |
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+ | '''Simba''': How could you let this happen? |
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+ | '''Scar:''' How could you come back? When I kept your guilty little secret all this time? |
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+ | '''Simba''': I ''had'' to come back! |
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+ | '''Scar:''' Why? |
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+ | '''Simba:''' I'm the rightful King! |
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+ | '''Scar: '''Oh, he's the rightful King! |
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+ | ('''Scar''' and the hyenas insanely laugh) |
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+ | '''Scar:''' Sorry, the position's filled |
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+ | '''Simba:''' You destroyed everything my father stood for! |
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+ | '''Scar:''' Your father, he was nothing! |
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+ | '''Simba''': He was a great King! |
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+ | '''Scar:''' He's a dead King! |
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+ | ('''Scar''' stands atop of the hyenas where they watch him) |
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+ | '''Scar''': He was a pompous, arrogant, overbearing fool! He and his adoring subjects, squandering all over! While I rotted in his shadows! But I showed him! I killed him! |
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+ | ('''Simba''' is horrified) |
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+ | '''Simba: '''You killed my father... |
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+ | ('''Simba'''<nowiki/>'s anger arouses) |
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+ | '''Simba: '''You....... KILLED MY FATHER!!!!!!!!!!! |
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+ | ('''Simba '''attacks Scar in a rage, but the hyenas push him back.) |
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+ | '''Scar:''' Yes, and now it's your turn. Goodnight Sweet Prince. |
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+ | ('''Scar '''turns away, looking back at the hyenas) |
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+ | '''Scar: '''Get him, boys. |
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+ | (The hyenas leap on and attack Simba. Timon and Pumbaa rush in charging at the hyenas, but they get attacked and cornered. '''Nala''' rallies the lioness and they save the duo. Zazu flies above them. The hyenas run away with the lionesses tailing them.) |
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+ | '''Timon''' and '''Pumbaa''': Get outta here, get outta here, get outta here and stay out! |
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+ | (Lighting strikes the savannah and starts the fire) |
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+ | ('''Scar''' and '''Simba''' battle.) |
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+ | ('''Scar''' claws '''Simba''' in the face) |
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+ | ('''Simba''' falls backward.) |
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+ | '''Simba:''' You think because you killed my father, that you're better than him?! Pathetic. Weak. Realize Scar. You are nothing but a coward! |
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+ | ('''Scar''' loses his patience and leaps on '''Simba''') |
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+ | ('''Simba '''flips '''Scar''' over him) |
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+ | ('''Scar''' hangs onto Pride Rock's edge) |
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+ | '''Scar''': Help me Simba! Please, help me! |
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+ | '''Simba''': Why should I?! |
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+ | '''Scar''': Are you no better than I? You're no murderer Simba. Please! I beg your forgiveness! You won, you're king! |
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+ | ('''Simba '''helps '''Scar '''by pulling him to safety) |
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+ | '''(Scar''' grabs '''Simba'''<nowiki/>'s mane and throws him off Pride Rock) |
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+ | '''Simba''': Heeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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+ | ('''Simba''' nearly falls to his death but smashes into a tree and lands safely. The flames are about to engulf '''Simba '''so he runs away to escape them, something he barely accomplishes) |
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+ | ('''Scar '''thinks '''Simba''' is dead and loses his sanity) |
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+ | (Flames begin to engulf Pride Rock) |
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+ | '''Scar''': Hahahaha, Ahhahaha!!!!!!! Ahhahahahaaaa!!!!!!!! |
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+ | (Flames engulf '''Scar''') |
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+ | (Rain Falls) |
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+ | ('''Simba''' lays at the base of Pride Rock, and looks up, seeing '''Scar'''<nowiki/>'s dead body) |
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+ | ('''Nala '''emerged from the smoke and nuzzled '''Simba. '''They both find an unconscious lion) |
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+ | ('''Sarabi''' lays on the ground with her fur burn and ash marks on her body, with ashes surrounding her as well) |
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+ | ('''Simba''', with a burnt mane and ash marks on himself, watches in worry fearing that his mother may be dead) |
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+ | ('''Sarabi''' wakes up and looks at '''Simba''') |
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+ | ('''Sarabi''' and '''Simba''' embrace) |
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+ | (Rain continues to fall. The lionesses reunite with each other and watch '''Simba''' walk up on Pride Rock.) |
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+ | ('''Simba '''roars, becoming the King, with the lioness roaring) |
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+ | (Cut to many years later; The Pride Lands are restored, and the animals have returned to Pride Rock) |
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+ | (We see Simba, fully grown. After a short time, Rafiki lifts the cub up, for all the animals to see). |
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('''Scar''' and '''Simba''' battle.) |
('''Scar''' and '''Simba''' battle.) |
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('''Scar''' claws '''Simba''' in the face) |
('''Scar''' claws '''Simba''' in the face) |
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− | ('''Simba''' falls |
+ | ('''Simba''' falls backward.) |
'''Scar''': This is too easy. Why it's almost as easy as killing your father. |
'''Scar''': This is too easy. Why it's almost as easy as killing your father. |
Revision as of 20:50, 21 May 2019
This is an alternate ending of the movie The Lion King. Indeed, this was the ending in the earlier production of the movie; however, producers alternated this ending as this first one was too horrific for a Disney Film and letting Scar be mauled by his hyena henchmen was more interesting to Scar's death than simply having him burn to death as he did in this version. Ironically, the final scene was in fact based on an alternate ending of Beauty and the Beast where Gaston was killed by Wolves, which was cut for the same reasons this ending was cut (i.e. it was too graphic for a Disney film).
Storyline
In this early storyboard scene, while Pride Rock is burning and the hyenas battle the lions, Simba battles Scar atop Pride Rock. During their battle, Scar viciously claws Simba in the face, and the impact is so great, that Simba falls backward. Then, while Simba is on his back, Scar walks towards Simba and says, "This is too easy; why this is almost as easy as killing your father." Indicating that Scar killed Mufasa and also that he is about to kill Simba as well. Scar acts as if revealing the fact that he killed his brother and Simba's father Mufasa, was something he said by mistake, as indicated when he claimed: "the cat's out of the bag". Simba reacts in shock. Before Scar's attempt to kill Simba he says, "Goodnight sweet prince." A reference from the Shakespearean play 'Hamlet'. Scar leaps toward Simba preparing to murder him but just as Simba is about to die, he uses his hind legs to shove Scar off of him causing Scar to fall off the edge of Pride Rock. Suddenly Simba hears a cry for help from below.
He sees Scar clinging onto the edge of Pride Rock who is trying to avoid falling into the burning flames far below him to his death. It is confirmed that it was indeed Scar who was calling for help as he does so once again. Although Simba is willing to let Scar fall, he decides to help him when Scar tells Simba that if he lets him fall and die, he is then a murderer and that he will be no better than Scar, something Scar knows Simba is not. To make his security that much better, Scar even adds that Simba has won, and is now king (which is obviously a lie).
After Simba helps Scar by pulling him up, Scar grabs Simba's mane, dashes his neck, and throws him off the edge of Pride Rock, causing Simba to fall to his apparent death. But just before Simba is about to smash into the burning ground below he lands on a tree, breaking his fall and causing him to hit the ground with lesser impact, whilst shielding him from the flames. As Simba falls onto safe ground, the fire around him begins to spread, so Simba runs for his life, narrowly avoiding the fire. Although to Scar, Simba's survival was too far away to see, to him Simba simply fell until he was too small to see, causing Scar to believe that Simba fell to his death and that he had won. At the same time, he loses his sanity due to the loss of everything, (The hyenas, his subjects, the Kingdom, etc.) and bursts into maniacal laughter, before he is engulfed by the flames which burn him alive and consume Pride Rock.
It begins to rain and the rain puts the fire out. After Simba's defeat, he goes to see if
Sarabi is OK. Sarabi wakes up, and she and Simba both embrace.
In this early scene, whether the hyenas ran away, were killed by the lions, or burned to death is unknown. Or whether Scar escaped the flames and lived or just died another way (for example, being mauled by the lions) is also unknown. As well as what happened to the lions, Timon, Zazu, Pumbaa, and Rafiki, did they burn to death like Scar? Were they devoured by the hyenas? Did they simply run away from the battlefield and never return? All those questions are unanswered due to the fact that the video to that scene just ends when Sarabi awakens.
1993 Version
Despite the questions above, in the 1993 draft of The Lion King, these answers are all answered as the scene features Simba becoming King and presenting his newborn to the Kingdom. There are many differences between this version and the 1992 version as well as the final film.
(Scar walks out of his cave)
Scar: SARABI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Zazu hides in a cave)
(Sarabi walks along the trail surrounded by hyenas, who growl, snap and scorn her)
Hyenas: We're hungy!
(Sarabi continues until she reaches Scar)
Sarabi: Yes Scar?
Scar: Where is your hunting party? They're not doing their job.
Sarabi: Scar, there is no food. The herds have moved on.
Scar: No, you're not looking hard enough
Sarabi: It's over Scar, there's nothing left. We have only one choice, we must leave Pride Rock
Scar: No, no. We're not going anywhere.
Sarabi: Then you are sentencing us to death
Scar: Then so be it! I am the King! And I make the rules!
Sarabi: If you were half the King Mufasa was.....
(Scar strikes Sarabi and throws her off the cliff)
Scar: I AM TEN TIMES THE KING MUFASA WAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Sarabi falls off of Pride Rock and tumbles to the base in a massive pile of hyenas, who all give way for the falling lioness)
(Zazu flies down towards Sarabi)
Zazu: Queen Sarabi!
(Scar evilly smiles at her sister in law's near death)
(Lighting strikes revealing Simba, who grabs the attention of the hyenas and Scar.)
(Simba walks down, revealing his face)
(Scar thinks Simba is Mufasa)
Scar: Is it, could it be, Mufasa? It is the very image of my dear brother! Are you beast?! Or demon!? Have you been sent to torment me? Forgive me, brother! Have mercy on me!
Simba: Scar, what's happened to you?
(Scar realizes who Simba is)
Scar: You're not Mufasa! Simba. (Laughs) I never thought I'd see you again.
(Scar glares at Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed, who argue about who's fault it is.)
Banzai: (Don't look at me, you let him get away!)
Simba: Why are they here?
Scar: Simba, things have changed.
Simba: How could you let this happen?
Scar: How could you come back? When I kept your guilty little secret all this time?
Simba: I had to come back!
Scar: Why?
Simba: I'm the rightful King!
Scar: Oh, he's the rightful King!
(Scar and the hyenas insanely laugh)
Scar: Sorry, the position's filled
Simba: You destroyed everything my father stood for!
Scar: Your father, he was nothing!
Simba: He was a great King!
Scar: He's a dead King!
(Scar stands atop of the hyenas where they watch him)
Scar: He was a pompous, arrogant, overbearing fool! He and his adoring subjects, squandering all over! While I rotted in his shadows! But I showed him! I killed him!
(Simba is horrified)
Simba: You killed my father...
(Simba's anger arouses)
Simba: You....... KILLED MY FATHER!!!!!!!!!!!
(Simba attacks Scar in a rage, but the hyenas push him back.)
Scar: Yes, and now it's your turn. Goodnight Sweet Prince.
(Scar turns away, looking back at the hyenas)
Scar: Get him, boys.
(The hyenas leap on and attack Simba. Timon and Pumbaa rush in charging at the hyenas, but they get attacked and cornered. Nala rallies the lioness and they save the duo. Zazu flies above them. The hyenas run away with the lionesses tailing them.)
Timon and Pumbaa: Get outta here, get outta here, get outta here and stay out!
(Lighting strikes the savannah and starts the fire)
(Scar and Simba battle.)
(Scar claws Simba in the face)
(Simba falls backward.)
Simba: You think because you killed my father, that you're better than him?! Pathetic. Weak. Realize Scar. You are nothing but a coward!
(Scar loses his patience and leaps on Simba)
(Simba flips Scar over him)
(Scar hangs onto Pride Rock's edge)
Scar: Help me Simba! Please, help me!
Simba: Why should I?!
Scar: Are you no better than I? You're no murderer Simba. Please! I beg your forgiveness! You won, you're king!
(Simba helps Scar by pulling him to safety)
(Scar grabs Simba's mane and throws him off Pride Rock)
Simba: Heeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Simba nearly falls to his death but smashes into a tree and lands safely. The flames are about to engulf Simba so he runs away to escape them, something he barely accomplishes)
(Scar thinks Simba is dead and loses his sanity)
(Flames begin to engulf Pride Rock)
Scar: Hahahaha, Ahhahaha!!!!!!! Ahhahahahaaaa!!!!!!!!
(Flames engulf Scar)
(Rain Falls)
(Simba lays at the base of Pride Rock, and looks up, seeing Scar's dead body)
(Nala emerged from the smoke and nuzzled Simba. They both find an unconscious lion)
(Sarabi lays on the ground with her fur burn and ash marks on her body, with ashes surrounding her as well)
(Simba, with a burnt mane and ash marks on himself, watches in worry fearing that his mother may be dead)
(Sarabi wakes up and looks at Simba)
(Sarabi and Simba embrace)
(Rain continues to fall. The lionesses reunite with each other and watch Simba walk up on Pride Rock.)
(Simba roars, becoming the King, with the lioness roaring)
(Cut to many years later; The Pride Lands are restored, and the animals have returned to Pride Rock)
(We see Simba, fully grown. After a short time, Rafiki lifts the cub up, for all the animals to see).
1992 Script
(Scar and Simba battle.)
(Scar claws Simba in the face)
(Simba falls backward.)
Scar: This is too easy. Why it's almost as easy as killing your father.
Simba: What?!
Scar: Oops. The cat's out of the bag. Oh well, it'll be our little secret.
(Simba is furious)
Scar: Goodnight sweet prince.
(Scar leaps on Simba)
(Simba flips Scar over him)
(Scar hangs onto Pride Rock's edge)
Scar: Help me Simba! Please, help me!
Simba: Why should I?!
Scar: Are you no better than I? You're no murderer Simba. Please! I beg your forgiveness! You won, you're king!
(Simba helps Scar by pulling him to safety)
(Scar grabs Simba by his mane and throws him off Pride Rock)
Simba: Heeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Simba nearly falls to his death but smashes into a tree and lands safely. The flames are about to engulf Simba so he runs away to escape them, something he barely accomplishes)
(Scar thinks Simba is dead)
(Flames begin to engulf Pride Rock)
Scar: Hahahaha, Ahhahaha!!!!!!! Ahhahahahaaaa!!!!!!!!
(Flames engulf Scar and burn him to death)
(Rain Falls)
(Sarabi lays on the ground with her fur burn and ash marks on her body, with ashes surrounding her as well)
(Simba, with a burnt mane and ash marks on himself, watches in worry fearing that his mother may be dead)
(Sarabi wakes up and looks at Simba)
(Sarabi and Simba embrace)
Trivia
- Although the ending itself was cut, Scar being burned alive was nonetheless implied in the sequel, The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, in a conversation between Simba and Kovu.
- This is not the only time during development where Scar quotes Hamlet's line of "Goodnight Sweet Prince." He also was originally supposed to say this to Mufasa as his last words before throwing him to the stampede, but it was changed to a sarcastic "Long Live the King" due to it making Scar seem too self-aware.
- There is an explanation for Sarabi being unconscious the entire battle. Originally, after Scar knocked her out during her argument with him, she was supposed to remain unconscious for the entire battle, and instead, once Simba revealed his identity (due to Scar mistaking him for Mufasa) the hyenas would've attacked him, only for Timon and Pumbaa to defend him, and in the process, be saved by Nala, who would've chased the hyenas off.
- In the 1993 script, this scene is partially different than this scene, which was the 1992 scene. (See Below)
- In this scene, we see an input of Sarabi and Scar's argument, whilst the 1992 scene begins with Simba and Scar's battle.
- In the 1993 scene, Scar's panic attack is much more severe, even more than the final version. It is assumed that the panic attack was cut for being too uncomfortable.
- Simba and Scar's confrontation is different than the final film as well as the 1992 draft (again since the scene begins with Scar admitting Mufasa's death). In this scene, Scar doesn't corner Simba but gets into an argument with him, insulting Mufasa, and to later admit his responsibility of Mufasa's death.
- In the 1993 battle, Simba insults Scar for murdering his father and finding himself better than him, which angers Scar. Scar then attempts to kill Simba, only to be thrown off the edge.
- In this scene, Scar says, "Goodnight Sweet Prince" before sending the hyenas after him. In 1992, he says it before being sent over the edge.
- After Scar's death, we see the Pride Lands restored and the presentation of Simba and Nala's cub, whilst in 1992 we see Sarabi and Simba embracing.
- Many fans find it somewhat ironic that Scar burning alive was deemed too graphic when other villain deaths, such as Clayton being hanged, Frollo falling into molten copper, and Ursula being impaled and electrocuted before exploding, were deemed acceptable.
Link
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y14TwUGQ3xE