Disney Developing Live-Action Adaptation of MULAN!

With its live-action BEAUTY AND THE BEAST adaptation shaping up and the success of Kenneth Branagh's CINDERELLA, Disney is moving on to another property.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the studio is working on bringing the beloved animated musical MULAN back to the big screen. The live-action film will feature a script by Elizabeth Martin and Lauren Hynek. As of now, no director is attached the to the project.

Disney's orginal 1998 animated feature included the voices of Lea Salonga, Ming-Na Wen, BD Wong, Donny Osmond, Eddie Murphy, Harvey Fierstein, and many others.

Per the report, the film "followed a young woman who disguises herself as a man so she can take her father's place in the army and go to war. With the help of her trusty dragon sidekick Mushu, she becomes a skilled warrior and, eventually, one of the country's greatest heroines. It earned $304.3 million worldwide, earned Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations and resulted in a 2005 direct-to-DVD sequel, Mulan II."

Since it opened, CINDERELLA has gone on to gross nearly $150 million. The film was directed by Academy Award® nominee Kenneth Branagh ("Thor," "Hamlet") and starring two-time Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett ("Blue Jasmine," "Elizabeth"), LILY James ("Downton Abbey"), Richard Madden ("Game of Thrones") and Academy Award nominee Helena Bonham Carter ("The King's Speech," "Alice in Wonderland"), "Cinderella" is produced by Simon Kinberg ("X-Men: Days of Future Past," "Elysium"), Allison Shearmur ("The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1") and David Barron ("Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1") with Tim Lewis ("Edge of Tomorrow") serving as executive producer. The screenplay is by Chris Weitz ("About a Boy," "The Golden Compass").