{"id":39919,"date":"2017-02-14T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=39919"},"modified":"2017-02-14T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T01:28:00","slug":"disney-picks-live-action-mulan-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/14\/disney-picks-live-action-mulan-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Picks Live-Action MULAN Director"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Disney’s live-action adaptation of their animated film Mulan<\/strong> took a step forward today as the studio has picked Niki Caro to direct the project.<\/p>\n

Caro previously directed the hit 2002 Maori family drama Whale Rider<\/strong> and has World War Two drama The Zookeper’s Wife<\/strong> opening later this year.<\/p>\n

This marks the studio’s second recent pick of a woman to head a major tentpole project for them after Disney hired Ava DuVernay to oversee their adaption of the Madeline L’Engle young adult novel A Wrinkle In Time<\/em>. Disney has been making the hiring of women directors something of a priority. Reportedly both Wonder Woman<\/strong> director Patty Jenkins<\/em> and Walking Dead and Game Of Thrones<\/em> director Michelle MacLaren were on the studio’s shortlist for Mulan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Ironically, Caro’s hiring here appears to take her out of eligibility to direct the female-led Captain Marvel<\/strong> over at Disney subsidiary Marvel Studios. There, she was on a short-list that also included Lesli Linka Glatter (Homeland<\/em>) and Lorene Scafaria (Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World<\/strong>, 2012).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The WHALE RIDER director will now take on the adaptation of the 1998 animated feature.<\/div>\n

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