About Moana 2
Moana 2 is a new movie made by Disney. It’s a cartoon with music and adventure. It’s the sequel to the first Moana movie from 2016. The movie is being made by Walt Disney Animation Studios and will be shown by Walt Disney Pictures.
The directors of the movie are David Derrick Jr., Jason Hand, and Dana Ledoux Miller. They’re all new to directing feature films. David Derrick Jr. and Jared Bush wrote the story. Christina Chen and Yvett Merino are producing the movie.
The actors in the movie include Auliʻi Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Temuera Morrison, Nicole Scherzinger, and Alan Tudyk. They are all coming back to play their roles from the first Moana movie. Khaleesi Lambert-Tsuda, Rose Matafeo, David Fane, and Hualālai Chung are also joining the cast.
They started working on Moana 2 in 2020 as a TV show for Disney+. But then they decided to make it a sequel movie for theaters by February 2024. David Derrick Jr. will write and direct the movie. In May, they confirmed that Hand, Ledoux Miller, Chen, and Merino are working on the movie too. Jared Bush joined as a writer a month later.
The music for Moana 2 will be made by Mark Mancina and Opetaia Foa’i, who wrote the songs for the first movie. Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear are also writing songs, taking over from Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Moana 2 will come out in the United States on November 27, 2024.
Premise of Moana 2
Moana gets a surprise call from her ancestors who guide her. She travels far across the ocean to face dangerous challenges and find lost places. She battles a fierce storm god and other tough creatures. Her goal is to unite all the people of Oceania again. To do this, she asks her old friend Maui the demigod for help, along with new friends she meets along the way.
Cast
- Auliʻi Cravalho as Moana, the curious daughter of village chief Tui and his wife Sina; she is chosen by the ocean to battle with the wicked god of storms and saving the world.
- Dwayne Johnson as Maui, a strong-willed shapeshifting demigod who accompanies Moana on her journey.
- Temuera Morrison as Tui, Moana’s overprotective father and chief of Motunui Island.
- Nicole Scherzinger as Sina, Moana’s mother and Chieftess of Motunui.
- Khaleesi Lambert-Tsuda as Simea, Moana’s new sister.
- Rose Matafeo as Loto, a “brainy but quirky” member of Moana’s wayfinding crew.
- David Fane as Kele, a “grumpy farmer” and member of Moana’s wayfinding crew.
- Hualālai Chung as Moni, a member of Moana’s wayfinding crew and a fan of Maui’s.
- Alan Tudyk as Heihei, Moana’s pet rooster.
Production of Moana 2
Development
In December 2020, at a meeting for Disney investors, Jennifer Lee, who leads Walt Disney Animation Studios, said they were making a new show for Disney+ based on the movie Moana from 2016. By August 2021, they said Osnat Shurer would produce it again. In January 2022, they said David Derrick Jr. would write and direct it. He had drawn the first movie. The show started being made at the same time as a new Moana movie. Jared Bush, who wrote the first movie, wrote this one too.
In February 2024, Disney’s boss Bob Iger said they changed the show into a new movie called Moana 2. Derrick and Shurer are still working on it. When the first video came out in May, they said Jason Hand and Dana Ledoux Miller would help Derrick direct. Christina Chen and Yvett Merino will be the new producers instead of Shurer.
Casting of Moana 2
TV show would become a movie, Auliʻi Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson agreed to play Moana and Maui again. Dwayne Johnson said he’s been part of the movie from the start and is excited for fans to see it, with new technology and cool effects. At a festival, they announced more actors joining, like Temuera Morrison and Nicole Scherzinger as Moana’s parents again. They also mentioned Khaleesi Lambert-Tsuda as Moana’s new sister, and Rose Matafeo, David Fane, and Hualālai Chung as Moana’s crew members.
Animation
The animation for the series started at Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Vancouver branch while it was being created. Before that, planning and drawing happened at the studio in Burbank. This movie was the first one made in Vancouver, even though another project called Iwájú came out before it that year. At the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, they announced that Mark Henn and Eric Goldberg, who are experienced, will lead a group of new animators to draw Maui’s tattoos by hand. Goldberg had already been in charge of the drawings for “Mini Maui” in the first movie.
Music
Mark Mancina and Opetaia Foaʻi are back to make the music for the movie. Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear wrote the songs this time, instead of Lin-Manuel Miranda who wrote songs for the first movie.
Release
Moana 2 will come out in movie theaters on November 27, 2024. A preview of the movie was shown at the 2024 Annecy International Animation Film Festival on June 14, 2024.
Marketing
The first preview of the movie came out on May 29, 2024.
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