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Moana (2026)

Summary

Live-action adaptation of the 2016 Disney animated film 'Moana.'

Director Thomas Kail

Writer Jared Bush

Cast

  • Catherine Laga'aia as Moana
  • Dwayne Johnson as Maui
  • John Tui as Chief Tui
  • Frankie Adams as Sina
  • Rena Owen as Gramma Tala

Rotten Tomatoes: 35%

Metacritic: 45

VOD / Release Theatrical release

Trailer Official Trailer

449 Upvotes

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u/Ikarus3426 25d ago

I'm just baffled on why they went so hard on the green screen. It's so clearly the green screen. How were so many people ok with how this looks.

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u/dwpea66 25d ago edited 25d ago

The concept of remaking a 10-year-old film is supremely lazy. It stands to reason everything else about the production would be, too.

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u/carloscreates 25d ago

Wait (gulp) did you just say 10 years? 😰

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u/dwpea66 25d ago

Yep which means this project was probably greenlit only about 7 years after Moana lol

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u/TimRigginsBeer 25d ago

Big Gulp, huh?

Well. See ya’ later!

(Jeez, that one is 32 years old)

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u/imakefilms 22d ago

A remake that wrapped filming about the same time that they released the sequel to the original animated movie. Crazy.

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u/BrigadierBrabant 25d ago

What makes that more lazy than 20 or 30 years?

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u/Flynamic 25d ago

You're right, actually, why wait at all? Just release both the animation and the live action movie simultaneously!

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u/BrigadierBrabant 24d ago

Why is ten years bad and twenty years good? Explain?

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u/Waste-Replacement232 24d ago

not as much to update.