17 Secrets About Mulan Revealed

8. Hoping to discover a comedy star to voice Mulan’s fast-talking dragon sidekick Mushu just like Aladdin casting Robin Williams as Genie, the filmmakers thought-about Joe Pesci, Steve Martin and Sinbad for the position earlier than Eddie Murphy signed on. 

9. Nonetheless, Murphy virtually handed on the film when he was initially requested to do his recordings for the voice of Mushu in an precise studio. “We are able to document it in my basement,” Murphy recalled telling Disney in a interview with The Chicago Solar-Occasions. In the end, Murphy recorded his half at his house in Englewood, New Jersey.

10. Mushu had his personal tune within the preliminary script, however the tune was scrapped after Murphy was forged, in accordance with lyricist David Zippel.

“We wrote three totally different variations of it,” Zippel advised Leisure Weekly. “However that is as a result of we did not perceive at that time that it wasn’t that [Eddie Murphy] wasn’t liking our songs, he simply did not need to sing within the movie.”