Disney's Live-Action 'Mulan' Gets Winter 2018 Release Date
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The studio is launching a global casting search for a Chinese actress to play the legendary female heroine.
Disney's live-action retelling of the classic musical animated hit Mulan is a go.
The movie, which is being fast-tracked, will hit theaters Nov. 2, 2018, and be released in 3D, the studio announced Tuesday.
Disney is launching a global casting search for a Chinese actress to play Mulan.
The news that the studio is turning its 1998 animated hit into a live-action title comes after such successes as Maleficent, The Jungle Book and Cinderella, among other titles. And Disney is currently gearing up for the release of the live-action Beauty and the Beast, which opens March 17 and is expected to be one of the top-grossing titles of 2017.
The studio also announced that Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (Jurassic World) were brought aboard to rewrite a spec script for Mulan that Disney bought in 2015. Jaffa and Silver also are working on the Avatar sequel.
The Disney team saw the spec, by Lauren Hynek and Elizabeth Martin, as a jumping-off point for a more nuanced and elaborate adaptation, combining the legendary Chinese ballad and the 1998 animated film.
A director for Mulan has yet to be announced. Jason Reed is attached to produce along with Chris ? and Jake ? .
Like the 1998 animated film, Mulan is based on the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan, the daughter of an aged warrior who disguises herself as a man in order to take her father's place in the army and go to war. Aided by her trusted dragon, Mushu, she becomes a skilled warrior and one of the country's greatest heroines.
Disney's live-action retelling of the classic musical animated hit Mulan is a go.
The movie, which is being fast-tracked, will hit theaters Nov. 2, 2018, and be released in 3D, the studio announced Tuesday.
Disney is launching a global casting search for a Chinese actress to play Mulan.
The news that the studio is turning its 1998 animated hit into a live-action title comes after such successes as Maleficent, The Jungle Book and Cinderella, among other titles. And Disney is currently gearing up for the release of the live-action Beauty and the Beast, which opens March 17 and is expected to be one of the top-grossing titles of 2017.
The studio also announced that Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (Jurassic World) were brought aboard to rewrite a spec script for Mulan that Disney bought in 2015. Jaffa and Silver also are working on the Avatar sequel.
The Disney team saw the spec, by Lauren Hynek and Elizabeth Martin, as a jumping-off point for a more nuanced and elaborate adaptation, combining the legendary Chinese ballad and the 1998 animated film.
A director for Mulan has yet to be announced. Jason Reed is attached to produce along with Chris ? and Jake ? .
Like the 1998 animated film, Mulan is based on the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan, the daughter of an aged warrior who disguises herself as a man in order to take her father's place in the army and go to war. Aided by her trusted dragon, Mushu, she becomes a skilled warrior and one of the country's greatest heroines.
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inb4 they choose a white that looks Asian
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Brenda Song will be Mulan
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MrCrookedLetter wrote: »Brenda Song will be Mulan
Wtf is it with you ? and Brenda Song?? -
As long as they keep score and songs....Be a Man... That reflection song are Classic
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So they just bout to do live action versions of all their classics?
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ericb4prez wrote: »So they just bout to do live action versions of all their classics?
Yes -
Watch it end up being Jackie Chan in drag or some ? .
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ericb4prez wrote: »So they just bout to do live action versions of all their classics?
Obvious observation is obvious. -
MrCrookedLetter wrote: »Brenda Song will be Mulan
We got london on the track -
KingFreeman wrote: »MrCrookedLetter wrote: »Brenda Song will be Mulan
Wtf is it with you ? and Brenda Song??
I been crushing on her forever -
They better get Shan Yu right. This scene is epic
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After a yearlong worldwide search, Mulan has been found.
Chinese actress Liu Yifei, also known as Crystal Liu, is set to star as the title woman warrior in Disney's live-action adaptation of the classic Chinese tale.
A team of casting directors visited five continents and saw nearly 1,000 candidates for the role, which requires credible martial arts skills, the ability to speak English and the most ineffable requirement of all: star quality. In deference to cultural accuracy, the studio focused on locating an ethnically Chinese young woman to play Hua Mulan, who disguised herself as a man to take her father's army conscription in fifth-century China.
In Liu, Disney found the complete package. Nicknamed "Fairy Sister" by the Chinese public for her pure and innocent looks and image, she has been one of the country's most popular actresses of the current generation since breaking out with a series of hit television dramas in the mid-2000s, while she was still a teenager enrolled in the Beijing Film Academy. She is fluent in English, having lived in Queens, N.Y., for part of her childhood, and acted in English in both 2008's The Forbidden Kingdom, alongside Jackie Chan and Jet Li, and 2014's Outcast, opposite Nicolas Cage and Hayden Christensen. She also starred opposite Emile Hirsch in Danish auteur Bille August's period romance The Chinese Widow, which opened the Shanghai International Film Festival in June.
Liu, who has served as a brand ambassador for Dior, Tissot, Garnier and Pantene, most recently starred in the fantasy romance Once Upon a Time, which earned $82.3 million in China this summer. Her other credits include 2012's The Assassins, which earned Liu her first major acting award (at the Macau International Movie Festival), Never Gone and The Four trilogy. She recently signed with WME and continues to be represented by Chinese manager David Chen.
Niki Caro, who most recently helmed The Zookeeper’s Wife, is directing Disney's live-action Mulan, which is produced by Chris ? , Jason Reed and Jake ? and eyeing a 2019 release. The 1998 animated version, voice-starring Agents of SHIELD's Ming-Na Wen alongside Eddie Murphy and B.D. Wong, earned $304.3 million worldwide as well as Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations.
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Won't be difficult for her to disguise herself as a man bahahahahaaaa
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OK Disney you can stop now.
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HundredEyes wrote: »Won't be difficult for her to disguise herself as a man bahahahahaaaa
For a second there I thought that was Daniel Henney. -
She Asian and can do martial arts...that's all anybody asking for.
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Wish this was done sooner so my girl from Hero could have starred:
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atribecalledgabi wrote: »She Asian and can do martial arts...that's all anybody asking for.
I'm Asian and as i have disclosed before was given the title 'young martial artist of the year '96 midwest region' previously.
Guess that means i should have qualified huh. -
lazypakman wrote: »atribecalledgabi wrote: »She Asian and can do martial arts...that's all anybody asking for.
I'm Asian and as i have disclosed before was given the title 'young martial artist of the year '96 midwest region' previously.
Guess that means i should have qualified huh.
Well hell....can you sing?? -
atribecalledgabi wrote: »lazypakman wrote: »atribecalledgabi wrote: »She Asian and can do martial arts...that's all anybody asking for.
I'm Asian and as i have disclosed before was given the title 'young martial artist of the year '96 midwest region' previously.
Guess that means i should have qualified huh.
Well hell....can you sing??
I've been told many times i have the voice of an angel. -
Never seen the OG
Does it hold up? -
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Never seen the OG
Does it hold up?
Lower tier of the 90s post late 80s animation renaissance Disney movies. Nowhere as great as The Lion King, Aladdin, Beauty & The Beast and The Little Mermaid. More on the level of Hercules or Pocahontas. -
Little mermaid is the woat Disney movie breh. Mulan ? on that.
