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There's conscionable nary telling however acold our excitement goes for this movie.
Disney's 2016 animated movie Moana volition soon instrumentality to the surface successful live-action format, Walt Disney Studios announced connected April 3. And that's not all—Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is acceptable to reprise his relation arsenic Maui the demigod, arsenic good arsenic service arsenic a shaper connected the film.
Auli'i Cravalho, the archetypal dependable of Moana, volition besides caput backmost to the fictional land of Motunui arsenic an enforcement shaper connected the project, according to Deadline.
The task besides comes with idiosyncratic value for Johnson, whose precocious grandfather Peter Maivia served arsenic the inspiration for Maui.
"This communicative is my culture, and this communicative is emblematic of our people's grace, mana and warrior strength," Johnson wrote connected Instagram April 3. "I deterioration our civilization proudly connected my tegument and successful my soul, and this erstwhile successful a beingness accidental to reunite with MAUI, inspired by the tone of my precocious grandfather, High Chief Peter Maivia, is 1 that runs precise heavy for me."
As for what fans tin expect from the live-action remake, Johnson noted there's inactive "much much to come," but teased that the task volition archer a communicative done "the realm of euphony and dance, which astatine the halfway is who we are arsenic Polynesian people."
The archetypal 2016 movie followed Moana, the daughter of a colony main who sets connected a high-stake quest with Maui crossed the water to prevention her island.
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Cravalho, who is not yet confirmed to reprise her relation arsenic Moana, besides penned her a connection of excitement for movie, noting that it's been "whispered astir for years!"
"Moana has had specified a profound interaction connected however we deliberation of Disney princesses," she wrote connected Instagram April 3. "Moana's spot and perseverance are inspiring—to audiences astir the world, to maine and to everyone who helped bring her to life. I'm looking guardant to sharing her communicative successful a full caller way."
Keep scrolling to spot which much of your favourite Disney animated movies volition beryllium live-action films.
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Moana
Disney revealed Dwayne Johnson and Auli'i Cravalho are returning for a live-action mentation of Moana aft starring successful the archetypal successful 2016.
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Lilo and Stitch
Disney cast Maia Kealoha, a young histrion from Hawaii, to play Lilo, The Hollywood Reporter revealed in March 2023.
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Lion King
Barry Jenkins recently gave a archetypal look astatine his Lion King spinoff movie Mufasa: Lion King, which is expected to drop in 2024 pursuing the 2019 remake of the archetypal movie. Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen will reprise their roles of Timon and Pumbaa, Jenkins said at D23 successful 2022.
"Mufasa was really an orphaned cub who had to navigate the satellite unsocial by himself," Jenkins said, "and successful telling this story, we get to acquisition the existent travel of however Mufasa recovered his spot successful the ellipse of life."
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Little Mermaid
Fans volition spell nether the oversea on May 26, 2023 with the caller movie, starring Halle Bailey along with Daveed Diggs, Jacob Tremblay, Awkwafina, Jonah Hauer-King, Javier Bardem and Melissa McCarthy.
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Snow White
Heigh Ho! Expected retired successful 2024 is simply a remake of the 1937 classic, starring West Side Story's Rachel Zegler and Wonder Woman's Gal Gadot.
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Aristocats
Questlove is directing the remake astir the French feline clan, Deadline reported successful March 2023.
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101 Dalmatians
The villain-centric spinoff Cruella (2021) is getting a sequel, besides starring Emma Stone, per Entertainment Tonight.
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Hercules
Marvel directors Joe and Anthony Russo are directing the live-action adaptation of the 1997 film with Guy Ritchie. Joe told Variety successful November 2022 that their mentation volition be "a small spot much experimental successful tone, a small spot much experimental successful execution."
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame
In 2019, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that the workplace is creating a Hunchback remake with Frozen's Josh Gad and writer David Henry Hwang.
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Bambi
In 2020, Entertainment Weekly confirmed that Disney hired Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Captain Marvel) and Lindsey Beer (Sierra Burgess Is a Loser) to write a publication for a Bambi movie.
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