Native Hawaiian Auli’i Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson, who’s apparently in every movie releasing in the next year, provide the voices of the lead animated characters in Disney’s Moana which has just released a new teaser trailer. Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, writer/directors of Aladdin, Hercules, and The Little Mermaid, Moana features music from Tony-winner Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, In the Heights), Grammy-winner Mark Mancina (Tarzan, The Lion King) and Opetaia Foa’i, lead singer of the award-winning band Te Vaka. Moana will open in theaters on November 23, 2016.
The Plot: Three thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, for a millennium, their voyages stopped – and no one knows why. From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes Moana, a sweeping, CG-animated feature film about an adventurous teenager who sails out on a daring mission to save her people. During her journey, Moana (voice of Auli’i Cravalho) meets the once-mighty demigod Maui (voice of Dwayne Johnson), who guides her in her quest to become a master wayfinder. Together, they sail across the open ocean on an action-packed voyage, encountering enormous monsters and impossible odds, and along the way, Moana fulfills the ancient quest of her ancestors and discovers the one thing she’s always sought: her own identity.
