Let's get down to business, China has been invaded and they need to defeat... the Huns.
Disney has dropped the final trailer for its live-action remake of animated classic Mulan as part of the highly-coveted (and highly-expensive) block of Super Bowl adverts.
We already know that the film is going to be quite different to the original, which some would argue is a refreshing change after The Lion King and Aladdin stuck rigidly to their animated predecessors.
There are no songs, a grittier tone, and... what's this? A new villain?!
As the trailer mentions, the Huns have the mystical powers of a witch named Xian Lang at their disposal. Not only does it make for a different type of threat and allow for more fantastical visuals, but it creates the dichotomy of her and Hua Mulan being women of the era fighting on different sides.
"You will die pretending to be something you're not," Xian Lang tells Mulan at one point, to which the hero replies: "Yet here I stand – proof that there is a place for people like us."
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Speaking to Digital Spy and others last year, director Niki Caro said: "In [an action] sequence like that that she's trying to hide. She's disguised as a man. She cannot blow that disguise because the stakes of that are really high – believe me.
"And yet this strength in her, this qi, inadvertently comes out, and everybody sees how powerful the qi is. This movie sets it up for a very important idea, particularly for women, that we are strongest when we are ourselves, and that that strength is limitless – and watch out!"
Tzi Ma, who plays Mulan's father, recently told Digital Spy: "I believe this live-action film is superior to the animation, very importantly because of the leadership. Niki Caro is the director. She's bringing in this woman's point of view, which it needs to be because this movie is about a woman warrior.
"Liu Yifei, the woman who's playing Mulan, is in my mind one of the best actors out there. She's so engaging and compelling that I believe the audience will fall in love with her at first sight."
Mulan is due to be released on March 27.
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