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Hollywood loves ‘synergy’, so with Disney have lots of success with live-action versions of its animated hits, it makes sense they’d want to make one that also taps into Tinsel Town’s desire increasingly tap into the ever-growing Chinese market. As a result, we’re getting a live-action Mulan.

The film has now gone into production and to mark the occasion the first image has been released.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Production on Disney’s Mulan, a live-action adaptation of the studio’s 1998 animated feature, has begun. The film will shoot on locations in New Zealand and China and will be released in the UK on March 27, 2020.

‘Liu Yifei (The Forbidden Kingdom, Once Upon a Time) was cast as Hua Mulan following a year-long global casting search. Joining her in the film are: Donnie Yen (Star Wars: Rogue One); Jason Scott Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny); Yoson An (The Meg); Utkarsh Ambudkar (Pitch Perfect); Ron Yuan (Marco Polo); Tzi Ma (Arrival); Rosalind Chao (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine); Cheng Pei-Pei (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon); Nelson Lee; Chum Ehelepola; with Gong Li (Memoirs of a Geisha, Raise the Red Lantern) and Jet Li (Shaolin Temple, Lethal Weapon 4).

‘Mulan is the epic adventure of a fearless young woman who masquerades as a man in order to fight Northern Invaders attacking China. The eldest daughter of an honored warrior, Hua Mulan is spirited, determined and quick on her feet. When the Emperor issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Army, she steps in to take the place of her ailing father as Hua Jun, becoming one of China’s greatest warriors ever.

‘Mulan is directed by Niki Caro (Whale Rider, McFarland USA) from a screenplay by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver (Jurassic World, In the Heart of the Sea) and Elizabeth Martin & Lauren Hynek based on the narrative poem The Ballad of Mulan. The producers are Jason T. Reed (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Chris Bender (A History of Violence) and Jake Weiner (Criminal) with Barrie M. Osborne (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King), Bill Kong (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Monster Hunt) and Tim Coddington (Crazy Rich Asians) serving as executive producers.’

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Disney seems determine to work its way through every animated movie it’s ever made and turn it into a live-action movie. They’ve done it with the likes of Cinderella, Alice In Wonderland and Maleficent, and they’ve got The Jungle Book, Dumbo and Beauty & The Beast in the works.

And now they’ve added another, as THR reports that Disney has just picked up a script about Mulan by Elizabeth Martin and Lauren Hynek, which centres on the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan, the female warrior who was the main character in Disney’s 1998 animated film.

There aren’t any more details than that, but the fact that Disney picked up a spec script suggests it won’t be straight adaptation of the 1998 movie, and may stay closer to the original legends.

It’s a smart move on Disney’s part, as all of Hollywood is chasing after the money that can be made in the fast-growing Chinese market, and with Mulan it has something with in-built Asian appear but it also known to Western audiences too.

Mulan is about a young woman who disguises herself as a man in order to join the military in the place of her conscripted elderly father. Pretending to be a man she becomes a hero, but inevitably her secret can’t stay hidden forever.

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