Mulan filmmaker Niki Caro has signed on to direct Beautiful Ruins for Sam Mendes' Neal Street banner and Steven Spielberg's Amblin Partners, the studio announced Tuesday. The film is based on Jess Walter's bestselling novel, and will be adapted by scribes Mark Hammer and Chiara Atik, working off an earlier draft from Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster. Set in an Italian seaside village in 1962, the story follows a charming young man who runs a hotel with no guests -- that is, until an American starlet -- Elizabeth Taylor, I presume -- arrives fresh from the set of Cleopatra and …
Disney is taking us from the football field to the battlefield with the new Super Bowl trailer for Mulan. The upcoming remake of Disney's beloved 1998 animated fantasy film stars Liu Yifei as the legendary Chinese warrior Mulan, a young woman who takes her father’s place in the Chinese army by posing as a male soldier. This new take on the material may not have a dragon or songs, but director Niki Caro is absolutely leaning in on high-stakes fantasy action for her live-action epic. We wanted to bring you the trailer as soon as possible, …