Hans Zimmer Almost Never Scored The Lion King — Until He Spoke To His Daughter
However, Zimmer changed his mind because his daughter, who was six at the time, had never been able to go with him to the premiere of any of the movies he’d worked on, because “all the movies with Ridley Scott are not necessarily child-friendly”.
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