Live-Action Mulan remake.

The "cheapquel" era basically starts and ends with the first and second Little Mermaid sequels, respectively. At least, that's how I group it based on the general method and direction of the sequels made during that time - I guess it technically starts with Goofy Movie 2, but it's much snazzier for it considered between two sequels of the same movie.

Lion King 2 and Return of Jafar were both far before the Disney sequels started to become more "churn them out" fare, and it shows in the way they're written. Also, Return of the Jafar is more of a tv pilot (same with Milo's Return).

edited 21st Apr '15 12:44:10 PM by KnownUnknown

The Aladdin and Lion King sequels are the only good ones in my opinion. Beauty and the Beast is okay. The rest are best forgotten.

The Beauty and the Beast one was a midquel that was during the Stockholm Syndrome Falling in Love montage.

edited 21st Apr '15 1:34:14 PM by GethKnight

Yeah. In the original, she at least have ovaries to stand up to the Beast while healing him.

Since when were we talking about cheapquels?

Cheapquels kinda came about when talking about Mulan never getting an animated series like Hercules or Aladdin.

Also, I am horribly ashamed of myself that I actually tried to link the London Blitz to WWI. My only defense is that I have become so utterly burned out by WWII over-saturation in media that I subconsciously rewrote it in my mind (at least in regards to Peter Pan 2).

Watchtower, you weren't completely wrong. London *was* bombed from the air in World War I. With Zeppelins.

Wow, so Fullmetal Alchemist was right about that?!

Is this still happening? I haven't heard anything in months.

The last I've heard is that Jenna Ushkowitz of Glee is rumored to be in talks for the lead role. From an anonymous source, so who knows.

edited 29th Apr '16 4:43:24 PM by Tuckerscreator

South Korean decent. Aaaargh.

Why the hell do Disney not just cut the bullshit and cast Zhang Ziyi? Ok, she's 37, but she doesn't look a day over 18, she is a veteran of martial arts artsy movies and she's Chinese, for fuck's sake.

This isn't listed in Disney's recent lineup of upcoming live action movies, so for all we know it's in Development Hell.

I can actually see this working. The cast is almost entirely human - with Mushu being the only real non-human prescence throughout the story (the cricket was superfluous and probably going to get canned from this) - and the original wasn't overtly cartoony bar a gag or two like Mushu's messenger disguise.

I think they might at least have the cricket for the beginning.

edited 4th May '16 4:32:52 PM by yellowturtle

Well while I agree an actual Chinese lady would be far better, a Korean would certainly be more ideal than whitewashing the character.

Can we please shut up about the whitewashing that hasn't even happened yet? The subject has already dominated like 10 pages of this thread.

Depending on the market, casting a Korean instead of a Chinese woman would be just as insulting.

Sadly, it'll never really go away. It's an issue that will always get brought up.

I agree but a t this point I think we can wait until it actually happens before bringing it up.

x3 Sorry, I won't make a big deal about it, wasn't going to. It just sorta fit in with my point. I'll leave it at that.

I don't pretend to know completely how the Chinese feel about some Koreans, but it probably isn't too great. And I understand wanting an actor who is Chinese actually representing a Chinese character.

Although I will never complain about a hot British/Aussie, etc. actor playing an American.

The Promise and a Chinese version of Dangerous Liaisons had a Korean actor Jang Dong-gun playing Chinese main roles. It also isn't completely rare for Japanese (porn) actors to have roles in Hong Kong Category III films. Despite the political situation, Taiwanese actors such as Shu Chi, Lin Chi-ling and Takeshi Kaneshiro seem to also get work in mainland Chinese movies.

edited 5th May '16 5:59:27 AM by harkko

We're not in any danger of whitewashing here... they bothered to get an Asian actress to voice Mulan in the original. I'm not worried about that.

Now, there is the question as to whether there's a "difference" between a Chinese, Korean, Japanese actress and how offensive that might be. That's certainly up in the air, but I don't think there's any danger of Scarjo being Mulan.

I know that a lot of Japanese people weren't terribly happy when the vast majority of the main cast of Memoirs of a Geisha were Chinese actors.

So long as this song remains accurate, it will always be a concern whenever an adaptation of an Asian character is proposed.

Voice acting and physical acting are very different animals. Also, that was twenty years ago.

edited 5th May '16 7:57:01 AM by TobiasDrake

It's not remotely possible to cast a white actress for an Asian role in ancient freaking China. Does not compute.

They did it this very year for Egypt. Gods of Egypt had a whole bunch of white people playing ancient Egyptians.

edited 5th May '16 8:07:42 AM by TobiasDrake