Live-Action Mulan remake.

An ancient Egypt that was a flat disk floating in space.

Because, as mentioned earlier, apparently they considering Jenna Whatsherface from Glee.

Watch them.

edited 5th May '16 8:12:50 AM by PhysicalStamina

I actually could imagine them casting a white actor to play Captain Li Shang as a half Chinese, half European, who suffers from discrimination, because of his heritage. They used that excuse for 47 Ronin (well, Keanu has/had a Chinese Hawaiian grandmother) and The King Of Fighters, so why not this one as well. Just look at how well they did at the box office.

edited 5th May '16 8:35:15 AM by harkko

All right so I'm not familiar with the original tale. What if any elements from that could be incorporated here.

If I'm remembering correctly, I think Mulan was kind of a crazy badass who didn't take no shit in the original story.

That'd be fun to see.

In the original story, it took her comrades-in-arms TWELVE YEARS to learn that Mulan was a woman.

And then there's the The Sui Tang Romance, where Mulan's father had died while she was out fighting, her mother remarried, and she was going to be sent off to be the Khan's concubine. She kills herself instead.

Okay I doubt that's gonna make it in.

Oh.

Yup.

I read that a little while after watching the Disney version and needed a hug afterward.

There's also the ''The Woman Warrior'' version where her family carves the names of those killed in their village on her back. We probably won't see that in an adaptation any time soon.

edited 5th May '16 12:57:58 PM by Tuckerscreator

Which is a shame, because that would be awesome.

So the latest Rick and Morty episode might result in a marketing change for the upcoming Mulan remake...

Context: The season 3 premiere of Rick and Morty has Rick trawl his own memories to reminisce on the McDonalds' Szechuan sauce made for promoting the '98 animated film. Now everyone wants it back.

edited 2nd Apr '17 1:38:58 AM by Tuckerscreator

Didn't Rick and Morty just start off as a Back to the Future-type cartoon with just enough serial numbers filed off to stop that franchise's owners nuke them from orbit?

Here comes a big necro.

Say hello to our Mulan for this movie, Liu Yifei, aka Crystal Liu!

Spent some of her childhood in Queens, New York and is fluent in English, her references include The Forbidden Kingdom with Jackie Chan and Jet Li and Outcast, with Nicolas Cage and Hayden Christensen. Liu most recently starred in Chinese romance films The Chinese Widow and Once Upon a Time.

China's dubbed her as "Fairy Sister," citing her "pure and innocent looks and image."

edited 29th Nov '17 10:29:01 AM by TargetmasterJoe

So Ziyi Zhang's too old then? Because I think that she'd have made a really good Mulan.

Good choice. She looks a lot like the animated one.

I hope Ming Na Wen gets some kind of cameo; she’s great.

The character of Fa Mulan is going to be played by a Chinese woman! It's a Christmas Miracle!

They actually cast a Chinese woman. I'll be honest, I'm surprised.

Why are you surprised ? You guys are honestly overdoing it. The studio got an Indian kid for Jungle book and there was never anything to suggest they’d whitewash Mulan.

Agreed. There have been many cases of tone-deaf whitewashing recently but if they did that here, it would have gone beyond all of those and hit a level of idiocy that not even the most blind of people would have done if only because the backlash could be seen from a mile away.

Unless you meant you were worried that they would have cast an Asian woman who wasn't Chinese in which case, yeah that was actually a possibility.

edited 30th Nov '17 1:37:33 PM by LordVatek

I do think there was a greater than zero percent chance they'd cast a white woman. The fact that they actually picked a Chinese woman is even better though.

edited 30th Nov '17 2:04:30 PM by Kostya

I didn’t expect they would cast a white woman; I saw other dangers like “poorly inserted white savior” and “non-Chinese director”. Which, one has happened and one almost happened.

Disney doing the bare necessity is, yes, good, but I have seen a number of Asian-American representation outlets disappointed that a Chinese-American actress wasn’t cast. It’s viewed as though this could’ve been an opportunity for new actors the same way The Force Awakens was for Daisy Ridley and John Boyega, and Jungle Book for Neel Sethi.

edited 30th Nov '17 3:58:33 PM by Tuckerscreator

Honestly, I was expecting Mulan to be a half-white actress, and it's not unprecedented, given the casting of Aladdin or Jasmine (I forget which) in the upcoming live action Aladin movie, and amusingly, that movie has the incongruous Token White character that was rumored for Mulan.

Edit- Is that pun deliberate in terms of using the phrase "bare necessity" and then mentioning The Jungle Book.

edited 30th Nov '17 4:47:14 PM by Hodor2