Disney Adds Live Action Mulan to Its Slate

If we're following this correctly, then Disney is currently working on live action takes on Beauty And The Beast, The Jungle Book,Dumbo (with Tim Burton apparently attached to direct) and a new Alice In Wonderland movie. Throw in the Cruella de Vil film too that's somewhere in development, and that's at least five live action movies it's got on the go, that have a grounding in one of its animated films.

Actually, make that six.

With Cinderella already grossing over $300 million in worldwide cinemas (and it's still got some time to go), Disney is pressing ahead with a live action take on Mulan as well. Based around the film directed by Barry Cook and Tony Bancroft, the new take on Mulan has been penned by Elizabeth Martin and Laura Hynek. How closely it'll stick to the earlier film remains to be seen, but the core inspiration will be the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan.

The 1998 movie, incidentally, is another of those that tends to get forgotten about when Disney's late 90s output is blindly written off. Yet there's some excellent stuff in it, and it's often forgotten that it was a hit for the studio too.

Mulanis presumably in the early stages right now, but as we hear more, we'll let you know. With each passing animated movie that Disney takes into live action, that new take on The Black Cauldron moves one baby step closer...

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