Dwayne Johnson has introduced live-action movie Moana throughout Disney’s shareholders assembly.
Disney has teamed as much as sail with Moana as soon as once more, because the studio will develop a remake of its 2016’s animated musical masterpiece.
Moana might be produced underneath Seven Bucks productions owned by Johnson, with Dany Garcia and Hiram Garcia additionally serving as producers on the undertaking.
Meanwhile, Beau Flynn will produced the film through Flynn Picture Co. Jared Bush, who penned the screenplay for the unique one, is serving as the author on this remake, together with Dana Ledoux Miller.
However, no director is concerned at this stage of growth.
Disney CEO Bob Iger and former wrestler shared the information throughout the studio’s annual shareholders assembly on Monday.
“This story is my culture, and this story is emblematic of our people’s grace and warrior strength,” mentioned Johnson.
“I wear this culture proudly on my skin and in my soul, and this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reunite with Maui, inspired by the mana and spirit of my late grandfather, High Chief Peter Maivia, is one that runs very deep for me.”
Moana is impressed by Polynesian myths because it tells the story of a younger lady who disobeys her father, the chief of an island that’s dealing going via ecological catastrophe, and goes off on a mission to reunite a mystical relic with its proprietor, a goddess named Te Fiti.
During her journey, she units Maui free from his island jail, who’s captured by a monstrous crab and finds the power to develop into the chief her father believed she may very well be.
Lin-Manuel Miranda is engaged on the song-making for Moana, together with Opetaia Foa’i and Mark Mancina.
The film was successful with audiences and critics, incomes over $665 million worldwide and bagged an Oscar nomination for greatest animated film, however misplaced to fellow Disney film, Zootopia.
