Disney is going to keep popping out remakes until they stop making money, and it’s clear The Lion King is going to make all the money.
Based on the success of Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King, it looks like one of the lessons of these remakes is that audiences are perfectly happy to go see stories that stick close to the animated classics.
New technology and new voice actors are different enough — they don’t want it to be so different that it’s like Dumbo.