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The Disney animated feature Mulan slipped right under my pre-teen radar, but I’ve never heard a person sing its praises like one might for The Lion King or Pocahontas (JK! The animals don’t even speak!). Jan De Bont, the director of Speed and Twister, must have been touched by it though. A few international producers are handing him over a boatload of cash to turn Mulan into a live action movie with Zhang Ziyi in the lead. De Bont already tackled Lara Croft, so he understands the intricacies of bad-ass female characters, and how to best battle robots in tombs. I’m sure this applies to Mulan.  

If you need a brush up on your (Disney) history, the film tells the tale of "Hua Mulan, the legendary young heroine soldier who joins an all-male army." From my understanding, it wasn’t an 80s comedy and Mulan wasn’t a newspaper journalist trying to get a big promotion by exposing how gross guys are. (THR)