With The Little Mermaid making a splash in theaters this previous weekend, information concerning one other Disney movie’s live-action remake is making waves. On Wednesday (Could 31), The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Hamilton and Within the Heights director Thomas Kail will helm the upcoming live-action model of Moana.
The movie was first introduced earlier this spring. Alongside Broadway vet Kail directing, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson — who will will reprise his function as Maui, the demigod of the wind and sea — will produce by way of his firm Seven Bucks productions with Dany and Hiram Garcia. Beau Flynn can be producing by way of Flynn Image Co. Jared Bush, the animated film’s authentic screenwriter, wrote the script for the live-action film alongside Dana Ledoux Miller.
Whereas the titular character has but to be forged for the movie, Auli’i Cravalho — who initially starred because the voice of Moana — revealed that she gained’t reprise the function however will as a substitute function an govt producer on the venture.
“After I was forged as Moana at 14, it splendidly modified my life and began my profession,” she mentioned on Instagram earlier this month. “On this live-action retelling, I cannot be reprising the function. I consider it’s completely very important that casting precisely represents the characters and tales we wish to inform.”
She continued, “I can’t wait to search out the subsequent actress to painting Moana’s brave spirit, simple wit and emotional energy. I’m actually honored to go this baton to the subsequent lady of Pacific Island descent to honor our unimaginable Pacific peoples, cultures and communities that assist encourage her story, and I sit up for all the gorgeous Pacific illustration to return. Mahalo.”
