On October 7, 2015, Walt Disney Animation Studios released a video announcing the casting of 14-year-old Hawaiian native, Auli'i Cravalho, who will officially portray Moana. According to John Musker, the music will be a fusion of the three collaborators, with the Pacific roots of Opetaia, the sense of narrative from Miranda, and Macina's sense of "world music".
In November 2014, Dwayne Johnson (also known as The Rock) was announced to voice the demigod Maui and join Moana on her action-packed voyage Īs revealed at the 2015 Disney D23 Expo, the film is to be scored by Mark Mancina, Opetaia Foa’i, and Lin-Manuel Miranda. We purchased the movie Moana on it's release day and loved it enough to want the soundtrack A music lover myself, I really enjoyed the music from the movie and my four-year-old twins love listening to music as well so purchasing this soundtrack was an immediate decision after we finished watching the movie.Moana is the story of a young girl who yearns to know more about herself and her ancestry. On October 20, 2014, Disney announced that Moana's release date would be late 2016. This will be the 56th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series.
According to Bleeding Cool, the film will feature a new, painterly style of CG. The Meander digital inbetweening interface still has a host of production issues (including color) that need to be perfect. Although initially rumored to be made in hand-drawn/computer-animated technique introduced with Disney's short film Paperman, Musker said that it is "far too early to apply the Paperman hybrid technique to a feature. We provide 2016 movie release dates, cast, posters, trailers and ratings. Moana will be Musker and Clement's first fully computer-animated film. 2016 Movies: A list of movies in theaters + released in 2016. To avoid similar problems, they pitched three new ideas, and in 2011 started developing the film based on an original idea.