Jet Li, Gong Li join cast of live-action Mulan

Jet Li and Gong Li have been cast in Disney’s upcoming live-action adaptation of Mulan, that stars Chinese actress and singer Liu Yifei in the title role.

Jet Li is in final talks to portray the emperor of China, who prepares for war by ordering one male from each household to join the military.

Gong Li will star as the film’s villain, a powerful witch who differs from the male villain Shan Yu used in Disney’s 1998 animated version of Mulan.

The cast also includes Donnie Yen as Commander Tung, a mentor and teacher to Mulan.

Mulan is based on the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan, a young woman who disguised herself as a man to take her father’s place in war.

What is Smallfoot about?

The first full trailer of the upcoming Smallfoot was recently released by Warner Bros. The Karey Kirkpatrick-directed film turns the Bigfoot legend upside down when a Yeti finds a mythical “smallfoot,” aka human.

Channing Tatum leads the voice cast of Smallfoot as the Yeti, Migo. The movie Smallfoot is based on a story by Sergio Pablos, and a script by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra (Cats & Dogs, Bad Santa), who are part of Warner Animation Group’s “think tank.”

While Sony Pictures Imageworks is producing the animation. Smallfoot will be released in the US September 28, 2018.

Tom Hardy becomes Al Capone in Fonzo

Tom Hardy is nearly unrecognisable as famous mobster Al Capone in photos the actor has posted on Instagram from the set of upcoming film Fonzo.

“Chasing Fonzo,” the actor said alongside a black and white, close-up image of himself screaming at the camera while in makeup as Capone. Fonzo, from Chronicle director Josh Trank, will star Hardy as Capone during the gangster’s last days as he suffers from dementia.

Terminator 6 has been pushed back

Although the first two Terminator movies remain sci-fi movie classics, the succeeding three didn’t leave much of a mark, and both Terminator Salvation and Terminator Genisys failed to launch trilogies.

Now James Cameron, with Deadpool’s Tim Miller as director, are working on the still-untitled Terminator 6, aiming to launch a new era for the killer robot-filled franchise. But it has been delayed to November 22, 2019 which was earlier supposed to be released on July 26, 2019.

Terminator 6 will ignore the events of the last three movies and serve as a direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Along with Arnold Schwarzenegger coming back, Linda Hamilton will reprise Sarah Connor, who last appeared on camera in Terminator 2, but made a vocal cameo in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

As for Terminator 6’s new players, Halt and Catch Fire’s (American drama series) Mackenzie Davis has been tapped to play a human soldier-assassin who is on a mission.

Published in Dawn, Young World, May 5th, 2018