Interesting: “Niki Caro, who broke through with the 2002 Maori family drama Whale Rider, will direct Disney’s live-action Mulan, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.” …Not that I find it interesting for the same reasons that anybody else will, I’m guessing. It’s interesting because I more or less had to be made to watch Whale Rider, over some protest (I don’t watch many non-genre flicks). After it was over, I turned to my house-mate who had insisted that I sit through it and said (admittedly a bit peevishly and petulantly*), “You could have just told me that she had a telepathic link with the damn whales.”
Which is possibly irrelevant, but still: she did do a good job with Whale Rider. So it might not suck. It had better not suck; Mulan deserves a good adaptation.
Moe Lane
*Because it was a good movie, and I am not yet a Buddha.