{"id":35778,"date":"2016-01-04T12:21:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T19:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/?p=35778"},"modified":"2019-03-06T15:04:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T23:04:45","slug":"disney-moana-featurette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/disney-moana-featurette\/","title":{"rendered":"See the First Footage from Disney&#8217;s Moana, Including Dwayne Johnson&#8217;s Demigod Character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?searchfield=disney&amp;utm_source=ee-blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Disney<\/strong><\/a> taking over Hollywood, primarily with their acquisitions of Lucasfilm and Marvel, let&#8217;s not forget they&#8217;re still doing what most of us love them best for: animation.<\/p>\n<p>Next year, they&#8217;re putting out two animated films, which is something they haven&#8217;t done since 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The first film is <em>Zootopia,<\/em> which I talked about a few weeks ago with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/2015\/12\/11\/zootopia-posters-and-trailer\/\">clever posters<\/a> they put out for the film.<\/p>\n<p>Later this year, in November, is Disney&#8217;s next princess film, featuring their first Polynesian princess and titular character of <em><strong>Moana.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now we have our first look at the film, thanks to a featurette that debuted on the Disney Channel!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KBd_c54xSSg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, the animation already looks stunning.<\/p>\n<p>As the video says, the film follows the young Moana (Auli\u2019i Cravalh) as she ventures out on an adventure with the demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson).<\/p>\n<p>In speaking about his role, Johnson talks about his own roots: &#8220;Samoa is in my blood. And to tell a story inspired by the South Pacific is truly a great honor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is definitely exciting that the two leads are being voiced by Polynesian people. And that&#8217;s only one reason to be excited about this film. It&#8217;s directed by Ron Clements and John Musker (<em>The Little Mermaid, Aladdin<\/em>), with animation by Eric Goldberg (<em>Paperman, Hercules, Aladdin<\/em>), a script by Taika Waititi, and music by Opetaia Foa\u02bbi, Mark Mancina, and Lin-Manuel Miranda.<\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s not enough to get you pumped, I don&#8217;t know what is!<\/p>\n<p>The film is set to hit theaters on November 23, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Are you excited for <em>Moana?<\/em> Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/screenrant.com\/moana-disney-dwayne-johnson-maui\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">ScreenRant<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of Disney taking over Hollywood, primarily with their acquisitions of Lucasfilm and Marvel, let&#8217;s not forget they&#8217;re still doing what most of us love them best for: animation. Next year, they&#8217;re putting out two animated films, which is something they haven&#8217;t done since 2002. The first film is Zootopia, which I talked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,108],"tags":[402,3145,112,3684,91],"yst_prominent_words":[26522,6378,5872,9169,6413,7507,7008,28454,8209,28455,9377,10682,11792,13434],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35778"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64455,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35778\/revisions\/64455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35778"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=35778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}