6. Can You Fell the Love Tonight was nearly cut from the movie
It’s perhaps the best-known song from the movie, but there was a version of The Lion King in which Elton John’s Can You Feel the Love Tonight was omitted.
And who do we have to thank for the movie being put back in? Elton John himself.
When the movie was finished, Elton was given a private screening of The Lion King and this was the version where the now iconic song was missing. So annoyed was Elton that he demanded that Disney put the song back in. They did and he won an academy award for it.
More amazing still, there was a version of the movie which didn’t have the song, but did have a parody of it sung by Timon and Pumba. Suffice to say, Elton John and Tim Rice were not amused and this was removed.
Originally published June 25, 2014. Updated April 15, 2018.
