8. Hoping to find a comedy star to voice Mushu, Mulan’s fast-talking dragon friend, similar to Aladdin casting Robin Williams as Genie, the filmmakers considered Joe Pesci, Steve Martin and Sinbad for the previous role Eddie Murphy signed on.
9. However, Murphy almost skipped the movie when he was initially asked to record Mushu’s voice in an actual studio. “We could record it in my basement,” Murphy recalled telling Disney in an interview with Chicago Sun-Times. Eventually, Murphy recorded his part at his home in Englewood, New Jersey.
10. Mushu had his own song in the original script, but the tune was dropped after Murphy was cast, according to the lyricist. David Zippel.
“We wrote three different versions of it,” Zippel said Weekly entertainment. “But that’s because we didn’t understand at the time that it wasn’t [Eddie Murphy] He doesn’t like our songs, he just doesn’t want to sing in the movie.”
