Disney ropes in Thomas Kail to direct live-action ‘Moana’ movie
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LOS ANGELES: Thomas Kail, the Tony Award-winning director of the well-known Broadway play “Hamilton”, will type out the live-action remake of the favored movie “Moana”.
The movie will mark Kail’s perform narrative directorial debut after he directed episodes of reveals similar to “Grease: Live” and “Fosse/Verdon”, consistent with leisure info outlet The Hollywood Reporter.
The enterprise was launched by Dwayne Johnson and the Hollywood Studio closing month.
Johnson, who had voiced the character of Maui, the demigod of the wind and sea, inside the 2016 animated perform, will return for the remake.
Jared Bush, who wrote the screenplay for the distinctive movie, penned the remake, along with Dana Ledoux Miller.
Set in historic Polynesia, the film follows the story of Moana, the strong-willed daughter of a chief of a coastal village, who’s chosen by the ocean itself to reunite a mystical relic with the goddess Te Fiti.
When a blight strikes her island, Moana items sail in quest of Maui, a legendary demigod, inside the hope of returning the relic to Te Fiti and saving her people.
Just identical to the animated movie, the model new take could also have a good time the islands, communities and traditions of Pacific Islanders as seen by the eyes of a youthful woman determined to pave her private path.
Actor Auli’i Cravalho, who voiced Moana inside the distinctive, will authorities produce with Scott Sheldon of Flynn Picture Co.
John Musker and Ron Clements directed the distinctive movie, which had a story by Clements, Musker, Chris Williams, Don Hall, Pamela Ribon, Aaron Kandell and Jordan Kandell.
LOS ANGELES: Thomas Kail, the Tony Award-winning director of the well-known Broadway play “Hamilton”, will type out the live-action remake of the favored movie “Moana”.
The movie will mark Kail’s perform narrative directorial debut after he directed episodes of reveals similar to “Grease: Live” and “Fosse/Verdon”, consistent with leisure info outlet The Hollywood Reporter.
The enterprise was launched by Dwayne Johnson and the Hollywood Studio closing month.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
Johnson, who had voiced the character of Maui, the demigod of the wind and sea, inside the 2016 animated perform, will return for the remake.
Jared Bush, who wrote the screenplay for the distinctive movie, penned the remake, along with Dana Ledoux Miller.
Set in historic Polynesia, the film follows the story of Moana, the strong-willed daughter of a chief of a coastal village, who’s chosen by the ocean itself to reunite a mystical relic with the goddess Te Fiti.
When a blight strikes her island, Moana items sail in quest of Maui, a legendary demigod, inside the hope of returning the relic to Te Fiti and saving her people.
Just identical to the animated movie, the model new take could also have a good time the islands, communities and traditions of Pacific Islanders as seen by the eyes of a youthful woman determined to pave her private path.
Actor Auli’i Cravalho, who voiced Moana inside the distinctive, will authorities produce with Scott Sheldon of Flynn Picture Co.
John Musker and Ron Clements directed the distinctive movie, which had a story by Clements, Musker, Chris Williams, Don Hall, Pamela Ribon, Aaron Kandell and Jordan Kandell.
