Moana 2 made a splash at the Annecy Animation Festival as the extremely expected follow up from Walt Disney Animation Studios exposed unique video footage, music and storyboard art throughout its discussion Friday.
Directors David Derrick Jr. and Jason Hand took the phase to present the series and provide brand-new information about the movie’s story and characters. Striking theaters Nov. 27, the motion picture is a follow-up to the 2016 initial and includes the return of Auli’i Cravalho as Moana and Dwayne Johnson as demigod Maui, together with fellow returning voice entertainers Temuera Morrison, Nicole Scherzinger and Alan Tudyk.
“In Moana 2her journey should take her to waters far beyond where anybody has actually ventured,” Hand informed the audience about the brand-new motion picture’s story.
Derrick included, “We start our story with Moana, 3 years after the very first movie. She’s checking out the seas, looking for brand-new islands, mapping the ocean, wanting to discover other individuals. As individuals of Motunui have actually not seen anybody for generations, Moana understands that the ocean links us. To whom? Where are they? She’s searching for evidence that others are out there. She’s curious why she hasn’t discovered anybody.”
Amongst the still-in-progress video footage shared was the movie’s opening tune, which is an initial number from Moana 2 songwriters Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear. Throughout the tune, Moana heads home to her town after making a spectacular discovery.
Another sector from the movie reveals Moana participating in an event that is drastically disrupted by a bolt of lightning. “That can’t be excellent,” Derrick, who likewise composed the movie’s script, quipped about the tense minute.
The art work and video offered unique take a look at brand-new characters, consisting of Moana’s more youthful sis and the members of Moana’s team, which has actually broadened beyond rooster Heihei and pig Pua. This consists of Moni, explained in the discussion as the “island’s most enthusiastic writer” and consumed with Maui, who is missing at the start of the follow up.
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Scenes including Heihei and Moni were amongst those to be welcomed with laughter from the crowd.
Returning from the very first movie are members of the feared though small Kakamora people, whom Moana deals with in a tense encounter teased throughout the panel.
Derrick and Hand helmed Moana 2 along with co-director Dana Ledoux Miller, who was not in participation. Working as manufacturers on the task, which started its course as a streaming series before developing into a function movie, are Christina Chen and Yvett Merino.
