A live-action feature version of “Mulan,” the legend of a heroic Chinese girl-warrior that Disney popularized in their 1998 animated movie, will be among the first films made by Xinhua Media Entertainment in partnership with the state-run China Film Group.
“China Film and Xinhua came in with significant funding to make this a co-production when we met them at Cannes in May. They liked that we were taking a Hollywood approach to a classic Chinese story,” Christopher Brough said.
Brough said Disney's animated version of the sixth century Chinese legend missed much of the nuance of the story of a girl who goes to war in her injured father's stead.
“The Disney toon version takes a 4-foot-high viewpoint, from a child's perspective. We will introduce Mulan at an older age and blend her story with a romance. Mulan is China's Joan of Arc story,” Brough said.
“Mulan” movie is set to begin shooting in China in the spring.
HOW MUCH YOU ALL WANNA BET LUCY LU WILL PLAY MULAN IN THIS SUPOSED MOVIE?!?!.
Woowww.. how nice! I love the disney version, and I am sure I will love the new real action version. I think it is a good idee to make the film more for older people. It’s also good, because nobody would go in the theater to see it.
But it will take long to make it. When will it be out on screen?
it’s vickie zhao..!!!
it will be out on Nov. 26, 2009 here in Singapore… heheheh.
This is an amazing movie