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Today, it’s hard to describe Favreau’s latest project, the much-anticipated Lion King remake, without thinking of Pete Becker. Becker, convinced his idea would change the world, pressed on. Moss 2 would only schedule appointments for January. Just Becker, a tech whiz who-before wooing Monica in a six-episode arc-had become a gazillionaire by creating a piece of business software called Moss 865. Not the star filmmaker who would make Elf a holiday classic or who’d launch the Marvel juggernaut by directing Iron Man or who’d update The Jungle Book for the CGI generation. For the 26 million people who watched Friends in the mid-’90s, Jon Favreau was Pete Becker.
