After a year of searching for the perfect candidate, Disney has announced that popular Chinese singer-actress Liu Yifei, also known as Crystal Liu, will star in the live-action adaptation of “Mulan.”
Diseny auditioned thousands of candidates for the role. The studio was determined to cast an actress who was young and of Chinese decent.
Liu, who has credits including “The Forbidden Kingdom,” and “Ip Man 3,” will star as Hua Mulan, who disguised herself as a man to take her father’s army conscription in fifth-century China.
The movie is set to be released sometime in 2019.
The animated, English-language version “Mulan” (1998) featured the voices of Ming-Na Wen, Eddie Murphy, Miguel Ferrer, and BD Wong, while Jackie Chan voiced Chinese dubs of the movie. The film grossed $304.3 million worldwide.