Beyoncé’s Black Is King is a visual companion to music from which 2019 film?

Beyoncé’s Black Is King is a visual companion to music from the 2019 film The Lion King.

The project was released by Disney+ in July 2020. It reimagines the themes and music connected to The Lion King: The Gift, an album Beyoncé curated and executive-produced for the 2019 remake. Beyoncé voiced Nala in that film and contributed prominently to its musical world.

Black Is King uses songs, choreography, fashion, landscapes, and symbolic imagery to create a visual narrative about identity, ancestry, family, and African diasporic culture. It is not a straightforward scene-by-scene remake of The Lion King. Instead, it expands ideas associated with the film and its soundtrack through a new artistic presentation.

The soundtrack album includes collaborations with artists such as Jay-Z, Childish Gambino, Kendrick Lamar, and Blue Ivy Carter. The project is sometimes called a film or visual album, but its direct source is The Lion King: The Gift, which was made for Disney’s 2019 adaptation.