‘Moana’ Unveils Musical Team, Logo, Story Details 

Fresh from D23’s Disney Animation panel, we have new details about Disney’s November 2016 release, 

The film will bring its music to life with Opetaia Foa’i, Mark Mancina, and Lin-Manuel Miranda, giving the South Pacific setting an authentic sound. We can perhaps expect something similar to the stylings of 

The story involves Moana (whose name means “ocean”), a young girl who dreams of adventure. Moana’s father disapproves of sea voyaging, but her grandmother encourages it with legends of Maui, a demigod voiced by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (who made a surprise appearance at the panel).

Also to be noted is the film keeping its original title. For a while, there were rumors of it changing from being titled after its story’s namesake to being an adjective along the lines of 

All this news is coming pretty fast. How pumped are you for ‘Moana’?

This is def going to be VERY much the Lion King music. Mark Mancina who worked with Zimmer on the Lion King is really at home here. This is going to be a soulful flavorful score. It’s gonna be the freshest sound from a Disney film since the Lion King.

Tbh since Lin-Manuel Miranda is involved in this I really hope it has some rapping in the movie. I’m sorry.

When do you think we’ll know who voices Moana? We still have a long, long way to go but at this point, I did expect that at least (I’m not convinced it’s this woman from Fifth Harmony).

So weird how late voiceover work goes with cg

I am more excited to see whose gonna voice Moana

I hope it isn’t the girl from Fifth Harmony but someone with a more “classical” tone or something like that, but it would be awesome with someone who has Hawaiian decent or something close to that, that’s what would make me fall for this movie

Also loving that their going for a more similar music theme as Lilo and Stitch too!!!

As someone who has strong connections with Hawaii, and Maui in particular, I am so very excited for this movie. As an animation fan D23, is making me very excited.

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