Longtime Disney animation producer Don Hahn loves to remind people that DreamWorks CEO (and former Disney exec) Jeffrey Katzenberg almost got mauled to death by a lion in 1994. The incident happened at a Las Vegas video convention in 1994, when Katzenberg was promoting The Lion King.
Hahn brought up the incident, to big laughs, when he was presented with the June Foray Award at last weekend’s Annie Awards.
During his acceptance speech, while rattling off a list of memorable moments he’s experienced throughout his years in animation, he used the Katzenberg moment as a punchline:
