They might just pull this one off.
If so, go them. I’ll feel a lot better about the live-action Mulan WHICH THEY HAD BETTER NOT SCREW UP. In particular, this scene must be perfect. I have used this scene for decades as an illustration on how you use your Intelligence stat in a game:
I will not have it trifled with. I will not have it trifled with.
It would take Lucas-level blindness to screw up this cast list and *this story* which, if DreamGirls and Chicago are any indication, Bill Condon does not have. I may even forgive Ewan McGregor.