{"id":119962,"date":"2024-07-07T11:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=119962"},"modified":"2024-07-07T08:50:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T15:50:25","slug":"dwayne-johnsons-thrilling-update-on-moana-live-action-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/dwayne-johnsons-thrilling-update-on-moana-live-action-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwayne Johnson&#8217;s thrilling update on Moana live-action movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dwayne Johnson<\/strong> has some thrilling news for Disney fans! <strong>The Rock took to Instagram on July 5 to announce updates on the highly-anticipated Moana live-action movie<\/strong>. The actor will reprise his beloved role as the demigod Maui, who he voiced in the 2016 movie hit and 2024&#8217;s Moana 2.<\/p>\n<p>In his post, The Rock revealed that <strong>production kicks off this August<\/strong> and the film is set for a July 10, 2026 release. But surprises don&#8217;t end there! In his photo, fans can see the headshots of the cast next to their animated counterparts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-119970\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Moana-cast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Moana-cast.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Moana-cast-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Moana-cast-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Moana-cast-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>&#8220;Exciting and inspiring casting news as we begin to bring together our live-action MOANA family,&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>Breakthrough star<strong> Catherine Laga&#8217;aia<\/strong> will play Moana, John Tui will take on the role of Moana&#8217;s father, Chief Tui. Frankie Adams is set to play Moana&#8217;s mom, Sina, while Rena Owen will portray her grandmother, Gramma Tala.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DiscussingFilm\/status\/1800972258220941701\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Catherine Laga\u2019aia has been cast as Moana in the live-action \u2018MOANA\u2019 remake <\/p>\n<p>Dwayne Johnson will reprise his role as Maui. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/guHGLTpZIu\">pic.twitter.com\/guHGLTpZIu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DiscussingFilm\/status\/1800972258220941701?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The actor finished his exciting update with a nod to his popular character, Maui, writing &#8220;<em>And yours truly, as the demigod ~ <strong>MAUI<\/strong><\/em>.&#8221; Now, stay tuned for more updates, and don&#8217;t forget to go watch Moana 2 on November 27th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dwayne Johnson has some thrilling news for Disney fans! The Rock took to Instagram on July 5 to announce updates on the highly-anticipated Moana live-action movie. The actor will reprise his beloved role as the demigod Maui, who he voiced in the 2016 movie hit and 2024&#8217;s Moana 2. In his post, The Rock revealed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":119972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,1399],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-119962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-movies"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}