{"id":17852,"date":"2015-03-30T13:11:04","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T21:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=17852"},"modified":"2023-01-24T08:35:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T16:35:35","slug":"disney-to-make-live-action-mulan-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/disney-to-make-live-action-mulan-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Honor on Disney Studios and Their Cow for Next Live-Action Film Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no dishonor to be found with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=Disney&amp;id=EN-407186506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Disney&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> recent trend of remaking their classic animated films into live-action spectacles. With the success of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=Maleficent&amp;id=EN-407186506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Maleficent<\/em><\/a> last year and the early success of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=Cinderella&amp;id=EN-407186506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Cinderella<\/em><\/a> this year, it&#8217;s no wonder that yet another film has joined these ranks.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>, the 1998 animated classic <em><strong>Mulan<\/strong><\/em> is now eyed by the studio as the next big project. Disney bought a script from <strong>Elizabeth Martin<\/strong> and <strong>Lauren Hynek<\/strong> with <strong>Chris Bender<\/strong> and <strong>J.C. Spink<\/strong> producing.<\/p>\n<p>This tale focuses on the Chinese warrior Hua Mulan, who is part of the official Disney Princess line-up. This will be the first time Disney brings one of their princesses of color to live-action and it&#8217;s very exciting.<\/p>\n<p>In the animated film, Mulan disguises herself as a male to join the army in her father&#8217;s place. She then defeats the evil Hun leader, Shan-Yu, and saves all of China. Not bad, huh? The film is full of colorful characters, wonderful themes, and some gorgeous music.<\/p>\n<p>If their recent live-action remakes are anything to go by, we&#8217;re in for some truly magical times at the movies in the next several years.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mulan<\/em> joins the upcoming <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/2015\/03\/16\/emma-thompson-kevin-kline-cast-in-beauty-and-the-beast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beauty and the Beast<\/a><\/em>, set to hit theaters on March 17, 2017; <em>The Jungle Book<\/em>; <em>Dumbo<\/em>, helmed by Tim Burton; and a possible sequel to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=Alice+in+Wonderland&amp;id=EN-407186506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alice in Wonderland<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Are you excited to see a live-action <em>Mulan<\/em>? Who would you like to see cast as the titular heroine? Share your thoughts in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no dishonor to be found with Disney&#8217;s recent trend of remaking their classic animated films into live-action spectacles. With the success of Maleficent last year and the early success of Cinderella this year, it&#8217;s no wonder that yet another film has joined these ranks. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the 1998 animated classic Mulan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,108],"tags":[402,3145,112,2480,2481],"yst_prominent_words":[6354,6230,5872,6413,8998,16506,19321,6116,12270],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17852"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68929,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17852\/revisions\/68929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17852"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}