Mulan to Debut Online on September 4

Those wondering when the Walt Disney Company would eventually release “Mulan”, now have their answer.

The live-action epic “Mulan” will go directly to the company’s streaming platform on Septemeber 4, the media giant said on Tuesday.

Disney Chief Executive Bob Chapek revealed that United States subscribers to Disney+ will need to pay $30 to stream, however, the cost will vary slightly in other countries such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and in parts of Western Europe.

Chapek noted that the plan for Mulan is a one-time shift amid the pandemic and will not change Disney’s long-term film strategy.

The decision arrives amid the uncertainty about when big movie theater chains in the United States will be able to reopen after being shut since mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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The movie is a remake of an animated Disney classic about a female Chinese warrior, which is played by Chinese actress Liu Yifei.

Mulan also co-stars Donnie Yen, Commander Tung, Jason Scott Lee, Yoson An, with Gong Li, Xianniang, and Jet Li.

It is written by Elizabeth Martin, Lauren Hynek, Rick Jaffa, and Amanda Silver, and directed by Niki Caro. Mulan is reported to have cost $200 million to produce.

Disney over the past years released a number of live-action adaptations of its animated classics, such as the Jungle Book, Beauty and the Beast, Dumbo, and recently Aladdin.

Moreover, a number of Disney’s animated classics live-action adaptations are scheduled to be released such as The Lion King, Lady and the Tramp, The Sword and the Stone (Disney Plus), and The Little Mermaid.

Mulan had been scheduled to reach theaters on March 27, but its release has been postponed several times as many cinemas remain closed. Last July, Disney said it was postponing the debut of Mulan indefinitely while it assessed its options.

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It is worth mentioning that the novel coronavirus was first reported in Wuhan, China. It has infected more than one million people and continues to spread across the world. Over 18 million confirmed cases in 188 countries. Nearly 700,000 people have lost their lives.

Cases of the disease are continuing to surge in many countries, while others that had apparent success in suppressing initial outbreaks are now seeing infections rise again.

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) special envoy David Nabarro told BBC that the virus is capable of “surging back really quickly” and is “returning all the time”.

The virus is a new member of the Coronaviruses group, which was never identified in humans. The viruses’ family also includes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV), which cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases.

Coronaviruses are zoonotic, meaning they are transmitted between animals and people. Humans and animals such as mammals and birds can be affected by the disease.

The name coronavirus is derived from the Latin corona, meaning “crown” or “halo”.

On February 11, WHO announced the official name for the disease caused by the new coronavirus is Covid-19, taken from the words “corona”, “virus”, and “disease”.

In December 2019, an outbreak was reported in Wuhan, China. On 31 December 2019, the outbreak was traced to a novel strain of coronavirus, which was given the interim name 2019-nCoV by the World Health Organization (WHO), it was later renamed SARS-CoV-2 by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses.

On March 11, the WHO declared coronavirus a global pandemic as the novel virus has rapidly spread to more than 800,000 people from Asia to the Middle East, Europe, and the United States.

Transmission of viruses between humans happens when someone comes into contact with an infected person’s secretions, such as droplets in a cough.

Coronavirus can also be transmitted by coming into contact with something an infected person has touched and then touching your mouth, nose, or eyes.

It is known that older people appear to be more vulnerable to the effects of the emerging virus.

The virus caused complete paralysis in all activities and events with large gatherings worldwide due to concerns over the spread of the virus.

People across the globe partake in self-isolation for 14 days as an effective precautionary measure to protect those around them and themselves from contracting COVID-19.