Mulan Remake

I’m experiencing a serious internal dilemma as I try to pick which film to watch first this weekend: Niki Caro’s MULAN and Charlie Kaufman’s I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS. Wildly different films, but hey, I contain multitudes…  

I’ve been anxiously anticipating MULAN ever since I first heard that they were making a live-action remake without Mushu or the original songs. While this initially felt like blasphemy, I’ve gotten pretty excited for Niki Caro’s reimagining of the Mulan story, which pays homage to the visuals of Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and other titans of Chinese cinema.