Disney’s Moana is making the jump from animation to live-action after the 2024 sequel.

Moanafans will soon be able to enjoy the adventuring musical in a whole new way.

My grandfather comes from Faaala, Palauli, in Savaii.

Dwayne Johnson with Maui and Moana

And my grandmother is from Leulumoega Tuai on the main island of Upolu in Samoa.

Thank you for saying that.

So, that’s a suit that took a long time to put on and that transformation… We were putting up walls, so there was no paparazzi, but they got in the boats."

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He is joined by Dana Ledoux Miller, who recently helped write and directMoana 2.

The former also earned him the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical in 2016.

I co-wrote the live-action with Jared Bush, who I also co-wrote this feature [with].

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And so I think that collaborative relationship between us has become so meaningful."

So we were living in that first film every day, writing that live-action script.

It was like sense memory, you know?

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We were so in Moana’s world that it only felt natural to expand."

Moanahits theaters on July 10, 2026.

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