KC7 Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 (edited) Dwayne Johnson In Talks To Reprise Maui For Disney’s Animated ‘Moana 2’; Live-Action Pic Bound To Shift Dates "One mega big piece of information that Disney CEO Bob Iger forgot to mention in his announcement of Moana 2 yesterday was whether Dwayne Johnson was coming back to reprise his iconic role as demigod Maui. Deadline has learned that the action star, in fact is in talks and it’s looking good. And as Maui says, “You’re Welcome.” The jury is still out on whether Auli’i Cravalho comes back as the voice of Moana. We hear that the actress is in talks, but they aren’t as close as Johnson’s. Cravalho already announced back in May on social media that she won’t be reprising Moana in the live-action version of the movie." Edited February 9 by KC7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youngstar Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 16 minutes ago, KC7 said: Dwayne Johnson In Talks To Reprise Maui For Disney’s Animated ‘Moana 2’; Live-Action Pic Bound To Shift Dates "One mega big piece of information that Disney CEO Bob Iger forgot to mention in his announcement of Moana 2 yesterday was whether Dwayne Johnson was coming back to reprise his iconic role as demigod Maui. Deadline has learned that the action star, in fact is in talks and it’s looking good. And as Maui says, “You’re Welcome.” The jury is still out on whether Auli’i Cravalho comes back as the voice of Moana. We hear that the actress is in talks, but they aren’t as close as Johnson’s. Cravalho already announced back in May on social media that she won’t be reprising Moana in the live-action version of the movie." She literally announced the movie on her instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/C3EIcPvPMOD/ https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3EQWidP4ge/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mojoguy Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 (edited) 51 minutes ago, KC7 said: Dwayne Johnson In Talks To Reprise Maui For Disney’s Animated ‘Moana 2’; Live-Action Pic Bound To Shift Dates "One mega big piece of information that Disney CEO Bob Iger forgot to mention in his announcement of Moana 2 yesterday was whether Dwayne Johnson was coming back to reprise his iconic role as demigod Maui. Deadline has learned that the action star, in fact is in talks and it’s looking good. And as Maui says, “You’re Welcome.” The jury is still out on whether Auli’i Cravalho comes back as the voice of Moana. We hear that the actress is in talks, but they aren’t as close as Johnson’s. Cravalho already announced back in May on social media that she won’t be reprising Moana in the live-action version of the movie." Rock needs to play nice with Disney since he wants to be in live action Moana. Cravalho will be back, better to be paid than be some kind of diva and hold out for more money. The voice acting should just be under a week of work for easy money. Edited February 9 by Mojoguy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxOfficeFangrl Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 3 hours ago, kayumanggi said: There's popular on streaming and there's Moana: The 2016 animated film has become a streaming sensation. Per Nielsen, it was the most viewed streaming movie of 2023 in the U.S. (It was No. 4 in 2022, and No. 2 in 2021 and 2020). It's always showing up on the streaming charts but didn't realize it had only gotten bigger each year. I remember the Bridgerton musical and Barlow/Bear aren't a bad choice if they couldn't get Lin back. Emily Bear is 22 years old, by the way (DOB August 30, 2001). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlatnumRoyce Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 Matt Belloni claims the Moana TV Show was greenlit at a budget of roughly $150M (he had no idea of how much that increased with the film) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Marston Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morieris Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 20 minutes ago, John Marston said: ready for this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AN9815 Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 The fact that this was initially supposed to be a TV show does worry me, hopefully it will be good. I think all this movie needs to succeed is a good soundtrack, story can be weak as long as the songs are great (similar to Frozen 2). However, if this gets amazing reviews then I do agree it will hit a billion and probably start a "sequel era" at WDAS, if it hasn't already started. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorkingonaName Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 (edited) 1 hour ago, John Marston said: Mr. President, a second Planes movie has hit streaming. Edited February 9 by WorkingonaName 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroHour Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 16 minutes ago, AN9815 said: The fact that this was initially supposed to be a TV show does worry me, hopefully it will be good. I think all this movie needs to succeed is a good soundtrack, story can be weak as long as the songs are great (similar to Frozen 2). However, if this gets amazing reviews then I do agree it will hit a billion and probably start a "sequel era" at WDAS, if it hasn't already started. Moana 2 in November 2024. Zootopia 2 in November 2025. Frozen 3 in November 2026. Begun the sequel era has. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Speedorito Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 Would anyone be mad if live action Moana got canceled? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpiderByte Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 (edited) Disney shareholders. While clearly Disney feels confident in this I will agree the development and priorities of this vs the live action one are a bit confusing. Edited February 9 by SpiderByte Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwoMisfits Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 14 minutes ago, SpiderByte said: NOT the animated one? What the heck? They are gonna try to have an ongoing animated AND live action Moana release with 24 months of each other? And some say you can't see issues at the "concept" stage - this is another fail at that stage, approving 2 concepts with the same character for the same time frame...and splitting your team across both... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youngstar Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 10 minutes ago, TwoMisfits said: NOT the animated one? What the heck? They are gonna try to have an ongoing animated AND live action Moana release with 24 months of each other? And some say you can't see issues at the "concept" stage - this is another fail at that stage, approving 2 concepts with the same character for the same time frame...and splitting your team across both... I mean one is a remake. it's not like they have to fundamently come up with something new Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroHour Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 17 minutes ago, TwoMisfits said: NOT the animated one? What the heck? They are gonna try to have an ongoing animated AND live action Moana release with 24 months of each other? And some say you can't see issues at the "concept" stage - this is another fail at that stage, approving 2 concepts with the same character for the same time frame...and splitting your team across both... Both Hollywood Reporter and Variety said in their write ups of Moana 2 that the live action is probably getting pushed back to create more space between releases. It does seem iffy though that they'll be able to balance animated and live action franchises, especially considering how copy paste the live action films of these movies always are. They'd be better off letting this franchise exist purely in the animated world for another decade. I would guess though that it's easier to get LMM back for the remake since he'll only have to write probably one or two new songs in his endless quest for that EGOT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric is Quiet Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 No joke, yesterday I was talking to a coworker about how they announced Moana 2, and she said she really hoped they would make a live-action version of the movie instead. There's an audience out there, whether you guys want to admit or not. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mojoguy Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 1 hour ago, Speedorito said: Would anyone be mad if live action Moana got canceled? This guy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WittyUsername Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 Wasn’t it the Rock’s idea to do a live action Moana after his DC plans didn’t work out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChipDerby Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 "man I wish they would've made this 8 episode TV show a movie instead" *disney does* "wait no not like that" 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
