{"id":11889,"date":"2020-02-19T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T20:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=11889"},"modified":"2020-02-20T13:14:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T21:14:00","slug":"mulan-will-be-the-first-disney-live-action-remake-to-get-a-pg-13-rating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/mulan-pg-13-rating\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Mulan&#8217; Will Be The First Disney Live-Action Remake To Get A PG-13 Rating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the start, it&#8217;s been clear that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atomtickets.com\/movies\/mulan\/240942\"><em>Mulan<\/em><\/a> would be different from previous Disney live-action remakes. A few have been photorealistic CGI confections (<em>The Jungle Book<\/em>, <em>The Lion King<\/em>), some have been near frame-for-frame remakes (<em>Beauty and the Beast<\/em>), others have inserted new storylines (<em>Aladdin<\/em>) and others have been complete rewrites (<em>Dumbo<\/em>). But the team behind <em>Mulan<\/em> made waves when it announced it wouldn&#8217;t be a musical at all but would adhere more closely to the original legend, blending that with the visual cues and beats of the animated classic.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s setting itself apart in one seemingly small but crucial way: It will be the first Disney live-action remake to receive a PG-13 rating for &#8220;sequences of violence&#8221; by the Motion Picture Association of America; the others have all been rated PG.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-FlPy1rNgi0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The first few trailers have shown a film that is less happy singing animals, more <em>Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon<\/em>, with inventive martial arts fight sequences. Even with the music and humor of the original, <em>Mulan<\/em> is still, at its heart, a war epic. Though there won&#8217;t be blood, there will still be big battle scenes, a rarity in a Disney movie. Last year&#8217;s <em>Maleficent: Mistress of Evil<\/em> was the only one to date with scenes of war, and that movie garnered a PG rating. Even after the third-act battle with fairies and humans and magical creatures getting tossed around, nary a spot of blood was to be found in the pristine world of <em>Maleficent<\/em>. It made for a <a href=\"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/maleficent-mistress-of-evil-review\/\">visually stunning spectacle<\/a>, but not necessarily a realistic one. We can expect the action in <em>Mulan<\/em>, however, to hew a little more closely to something you&#8217;d see in a Marvel movie, plenty of grime and sweat and, yes, possibly some post-battle smears of blood.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not much of a change, but for Disney, it&#8217;s a bold move. For starters, with <a href=\"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/warner-bros-pushing-detective-chinatown-3-thanks-to-the-coronavirus\/\">the coronavirus outbreak in China shuffling movie release dates around<\/a> like crazy,\u00a0<em>Mulan<\/em>&#8216;s Chinese release date could be bumped, meaning the studio automatically loses the world&#8217;s second-biggest moviegoing market in the film&#8217;s opening weekend. And Disney&#8217;s live-action remakes are meant to be family films; it&#8217;s rare they get a PG-13 rating, especially from Disney. To date, the only Disney Studios franchise to get the PG-13 treatment is\u00a0<em>Pirates of the Caribbean<\/em>. But other franchises like <em>Harry Potter<\/em> and <em>Jumanji<\/em> have shown that a PG-13 rating can still be viable and lucrative in the family film genre. Clearly, Disney is confident that the PG-13 rating won&#8217;t affect the box office whatsoever and I&#8217;m guessing they&#8217;re right.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mulan<\/em> will be in theaters on March 27th. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atomtickets.com\/movies\/mulan\/240942\"><strong>Get tickets here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the start, it&#8217;s been clear that Mulan would be different from previous Disney live-action remakes. A few have been photorealistic CGI confections (The Jungle Book, The Lion King), some have been near frame-for-frame remakes (Beauty and the Beast), others have inserted new storylines (Aladdin) and others have been complete rewrites (Dumbo). But the team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[64,51],"tags":[37,46],"class_list":["post-11889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-disney","category-news","tag-news","tag-newspage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11891,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11889\/revisions\/11891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}