Disney’s Live-Action Mulan Finds Its Star #movienews

Chinese actor Liu Yifei, who is also known as Crystal Liu and by the nickname “Fairy Sister”, is starring in director Niki Caro and Disney’s live-action Mulan retelling. The project is based on a script draft written by Amanda Silver and Rick Jaffa (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) and will largely take inspiration from the Mouse House’s Oscar-nominated 1998 animated movie adaptation of the ancient Chinese legend about a young woman – named Hua Mulan – who secretly took her father’s place in the national army in fifth-century China.

Yifei, who turned 30 this year, first made her name as an actor back in the mid-2000s, with her roles on Chinese ...

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