There’s troubled waters ahead for Moana 2. More so than sea monsters and ... takes place in a Polynesian village, tells the story of a headstrong teenager on a journey to break a curse, meeting ...

Reviving allegations that Disney stole the idea for Moana from Woodall’s screenplay for his animated feature Bucky, Woodall filed a lawsuit against Disney for allegedly copying story and ...

She embodies the character the great Auli’i Cravalho played so perfectly and commands the stage with pure joy, real emotion ... The Tale of Moana, that desire to tell this story correctly ...

The story pulls from the first “Moana” film that came out in 2016, but had to be morphed into something unique for the cruise ship, telling the story of her family’s start on the fictional ...

To support arguments that it created the movie on its own, Disney also submitted documents regarding the origin and development of Moana, including story ideas, pitch materials, written research ...

“We had a unique opportunity to take the story and pick it ... Even though Moana is a fictional character and her island of Motonui isn’t real, the Polynesian people and places they represent ...

On Friday, animator Buck Woodall sought legal action against Disney, accusing the company of copying components of an animated film he wrote, ‘Bucky’, and using them to create the Moana movies.