Disney’s Mulan remake ground-breaking for female filmmakers, director says
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breakingnews.ieDisney’s Mulan remake is ground-breaking for female filmmakers, its director has said. The entertainment giant’s latest live-action reimagining of one of its classic movies stars Chinese-American actress Liu Yifei as the eponymous warrior who defies authority to take her father’s place in the emperor’s army.
Mulan features an all-Asian cast and strikes a more mature tone than the 1998 animated original. Its budget reportedly runs into the hundreds of millions of dollars, putting it among the most expensive films directed by a woman, with New Zealand-born filmmaker Niki Caro at the helm.
Speaking at the film’s world premiere in Los Angeles, Caro said: “This is the first movie of its size and scale that has been made by women in the top
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