Disney's "Mulan" is making a come back.
A live-action remake of the 1998 animated film is set to hit theaters in November 2018.
But fans and critics aren't happy about new changes that were said to be made in the storyline.
The traditional Chinese story tells the tale a young girl who takes her father's place in a war to save him, but a "proposed remake ... would feature a white male European sailor who saved the young heroine and conquered her heart," CNN reported.
According to a blog post on AngryAsianMan.com on Monday, portions of the script, written by Lauren Hynek and Elizabeth Martin, revealed that Disney would be inserting a white male character into the storyline.
Since the post was published, more than 100,000 people from all over the world have signed a petition to "tell Disney (they) don't want a whitewashed 'Mulan.'"
According to CNN, "the term 'whitewash' is sometimes used to describe the tendency in which Western culture appropriates minority cultures around it."
The petition says that whitewashing makes it "far more difficult for countless children around the world to see themselves in the stories they love and think that they, too, can make a difference."
18MR, an organization that aims to promote "civic engagement, influence and movement" of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S., started another petition.
Tuesday, Vulture reported that Disney announced that the company had hired new writers -- Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, who helped write "Jurassic World" -- who would take over the "Mulan" script and that Mulan's love interest would be Chinese.
"The spec script was a jumping-off point for a new take on the story that draws from both the literary ballad of Mulan and Disney’s 1998 animated film," Vanity Fair reported an unnamed Disney source as saying. "Mulan is, and will always be, the lead character in the story, and all primary roles, including the love interest, are Chinese."
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