TODAY’S BLOCKBUSTER QUOTE
The Lion King
“Long live the king.”
Scar · Jeremy Irons
Why today
19 September is Jeremy Irons’s birthday. In Disney’s 1994 animated film, Irons voices Scar, who delivers this line to Mufasa at the gorge’s edge before sending him into the stampede. Four words, impeccably mannered; intent, rather less so.
Succession planning has taken a turn.