BEGIN SLIDESHOW Production begins on Disney’s live-action Mulan movie Disney announced today that production on their live-action Mulan has begun. Based on the 1998 animated feature of the same name, the film will shoot on locations in New Zealand and China and will open in U.S. theaters on March 27, 2020. Liu Yifei (The Forbidden Kingdom, Once Upon a Time) was cast as Hua Mulan following a year-long global casting search.