How to watch Mufasa: The Lion King – is it streaming?
The Lion King prequel arrived in UK cinemas just before Christmas.
Disney's ongoing project to reimagine its classic animations as live-action/CGI hybrids is continuing apace, with the Snow White remake imminently set to arrive in cinemas around the world.
It follows on from last year's Mufasa: The Lion King – which differed a fair bit from the other films in this project in that it was actually an original story, serving as a prequel to the earlier remake of The Lion King which arrived in 2019.
The film – which was directed by Moonlight's Barry Jenkins – arrived in UK cinemas just before Christmas, and has gone on to perform well at the box office despite some fairly lukewarm critical reviews.
It focuses on how the titular character (Aaron Pierre) and his notorious brother Scar (Kelvin Harrison Jr) first came to be on such terrible terms, and includes several original new songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
One of those tunes gives Mads Mikkelsen the chance to sing his own musical number – something which he confessed to RadioTimes.com that he had been rather nervous about.
Of course, these days all theatrically released Disney films eventually make their way to Disney Plus, and so you might be wondering when you'll be able to check it out from the comfort of your own home.
Read on for everything you need to know about how to watch Mufasa: The Lion King.
How to watch Mufasa: The Lion King – is it streaming?
Although the film is not quite yet available to stream with a Disney Plus subscription, you can now watch it from the comfort of your own home if you pay to rent or buy the film via digital download.
The film was released on a number of Premium Video on Demand platforms including Prime Video, Sky Store, Apple TV & Google Play on Tuesday 18th February, at the cost of £15.99 for rental and £19.99 for purchase.
Meanwhile, despite having been released almost three months ago, the film is still showing at a few cinemas – although your options to watch it on the big screen are a little more limited this late in it's theatrical run.
The film was initially released in cinemas just before Christmas, on Friday 20th December, and has performed well at the global box office. Following it's release, it sat top of the UK box office for three weeks on the spin and it has banked more than $700m worldwide – although admittedly that's still a fair bot short of the mammoth total of $1.6billion made by the earlier film.
When will Mufasa: The Lion King arrive on Disney Plus?
Good news – an official Disney Plus release has now been announced! The film will be available to stream to subscribers from Wednesday 26th March so there's really not long to go at all.
Meanwhile, you can already watch a special five-minute documentary on the streamer that takes viewers behind the scenes of the film, featuring insight from Jenkins and Miranda and some BTS footage.
And, of course, there's lots of other Lion King material on the platform, including the previous 2019 version, the classic 1994 original animation and its 1998 sequel The Lion King 2.
Mufasa: The Lion King trailer
If you've not seen the film yet and can't decide whether to watch it, you can get a better idea of what to expect from the film by viewing the below trailer.
Mufasa: The Lion King comes to Disney Plus on Wednesday 26th March 2025.
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Patrick Cremona is the Senior Film Writer at Radio Times, and looks after all the latest film releases both in cinemas and on streaming. He has been with the website since October 2019, and in that time has interviewed a host of big name stars and reviewed a diverse range of movies.
