Beyond Xian Lang, Mulan's supporting cast is made up of new, but vaguely familiar, takes on animated characters. Donnie Yen is woefully underused as Commander Tung, who partially takes the place ...

The following reveals how the new "Mulan" makes some changes from the original animated movie ... and a shapeshifting witch named Xian Lang (Gong Li). The addition of a new female villain adds ...

Disney has dropped the final trailer for its live-action remake of animated classic Mulan ... pretending to be something you're not," Xian Lang tells Mulan at one point, to which the hero replies ...

Director Niki Caro’s stirring live-action spin on the animated 1998 Disney “Mulan ... as a freshly conceived antagonist, the witch Xian Lang, human one minute, bird the next.

Primarily so Xian Lang could serve as a foil to Mulan ... This was intended to add more motivation for Mulan. Unlike in the animated movie, Mulan’s grandmother won’t be a part of her family ...

And nixing those was the right choice on the road to revamping the 1998 animated ... Xian Lang (Gong Li), a witch working for Bori Khan who can possess folks and turn into a hawk. Like Mulan ...

Then there’s the removal of key animated characters Mushu ... But it is more than womanhood that Mulan and Xian Lang have in common - they both were born with a serious amount of chi.

While Mulan appears to be largely unchanged from the animated classic ... Mulan was one who never appeared in the previous movie. Xian Lang is a shapeshifting witch who will be a supporter ...

Bori Khan (Jason Scott Lee) and Xian Lang (Gong Li ... than the yellow-eyed Shan Yu from the animated version. Lee imagines Bori Khan sees Mulan as “an issue that springs up in his plans ...

Voiced by Eddie Murphy, he provided the animated ... entertaining as Xian Lang, a shape-shifting, mercurial witch, while Yifei brings grace and charisma to the role of Mulan, a hero one can ...

What Niki Caro’s Mulan does that no other Disney remake has is take a number of creative liberties to separate itself from its animated classic ... and Gong Li’s Xian Lang.