Instead of a dragon, a cricket and a love interest, there’s a phoenix, a soldier named Cricket and a new connection There are tweaks to the cast of supporting characters. For starters ...

Disney treated fans to an extended new look at the live-action remake of “Mulan” that showcased plenty of action — the new phoenix. The new footage was presented by “Mulan” director Niki ...

Mulan accidentally breaks a family statue of a phoenix. In the animated film, Mushu breaks a statue of a stone dragon, which serves as the family's guardian. Mulan's father says the phoenix is the ...

What's not: The main villain feels a bit underdeveloped along with the majority of Mulan's male comrades. There's little reason for the phoenix to be a part of this movie. While "Mulan" delivers a ...

Mulan Skips Theaters to Premiere on Disney+ ... During the footage presentation, Caro also addressed fan theories that a phoenix included in the film's trailer might be an updated version of ...

producer Jason Reed pointed to this response as a reason to omit Mushu (and replace him with a bright pink phoenix who flies overhead, representing Mulan’s ancestors). “Obviously Mushu is a ...

Early scripts had the phoenix as more of a sidekick along Mulan’s journey — kind of like Mushu — but it was determined that the phoenix would work better as more of a spiritual guide to Mulan.

Gone are “animal sidekick” Cricket, whose name has been arbitrarily reassigned to one of Mulan’s fellow soldiers; Eddie Murphy’s jabbering dragon Mushu, replaced by a CG phoenix glimpsed ...

So, will there be a Mushu replacement? Doubtful. According to Caro, fan theories that the phoenix spotted in the Mulan trailer is a new Mushu figure are incorrect, but gave her own explanation for ...

Still, Reed said there will be a “mythological sidekick of sorts” in the movie, which many reports suggested will be a phoenix, and which was spotted in the second trailer for the new Mulan.

There is no cute cartoon dragon voiced by Eddie Murphy nor a flurry of showtunes in Disney’s new live-action "Mulan." And nixing those was the right choice on the road to revamping the 1998 ...

The dress was composed of about 12 meters of fabric to wrap and featured colorful hand embroidery of butterflies, magnolias, and a phoenix, which took weeks to make. Mulan’s earrings and ...