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Moana and Maui are sailing back to the big screen.
Catherine Laga’aia and Dwayne Johnson can be seen as the wayfinding chieftess and her demigod pal in a first glimpse of Disney’s live-action Moana, shared Monday, Nov. 17.
Johnson, 53, shared the teaser trailer from the upcoming adaptation on his Instagram.
Disney’s 2016 animated musical Moana and its 2024 sequel, in which Johnson voiced Maui, became massive box office hits. The Thomas Kail-directed live-action remake, first announced in April 2023, counts among its producers Auli‘i Cravalho and Lin-Manuel Miranda, the voice star and composer behind the original Moana, respectively.
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In November 2024, photos of a bulked up and bare-chested Johnson surfaced from the live-action movie’s Hawaiʻi set. “That [suit] is a couple of hours every day of transforming, putting that on,” he later clarified to Extra about his character’s look.
Joining Laga’aia, 18, in the title role will be John Tui (who held a role in Johnson’s autobiographical NBC series Young Rock) as Moana’s father Chief Tui, Frankie Adams as Moana’s mom Sina and Rena Owen as her grandmother, Gramma Tala.
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Following the release of Snow White and Lilo & Stitch earlier this year, Disney’s upcoming remakes of animated hits include Moana and Hercules; a live-action sequel to Lilo & Stitch is also in the works.
The live-action remake of Moana is in theaters July 10.
