{"id":291202,"date":"2025-11-17T21:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/291202\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T21:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:42:07","slug":"moana-live-action-trailer-stars-dwayne-johnson-catherine-lagaaia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/291202\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Moana&#8217; Live-Action Trailer Stars Dwayne Johnson, Catherine Laga&#8217;aia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tCatherine Laga\u2019aia and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/dwayne-johnson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dwayne-johnson_1\" data-tag=\"dwayne-johnson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dwayne Johnson<\/a> are set to make a splash with the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/trailer\/\" id=\"auto-tag_trailer_1\" data-tag=\"trailer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trailer<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/disney-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_disney-2_1\" data-tag=\"disney-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disney<\/a>\u2018s live-action feature adaptation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/moana\/\" id=\"auto-tag_moana_1\" data-tag=\"moana\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moana<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDirector Thomas Kail\u2019s remake of the original 2016 animated film hits theaters July 10, 2026. The trailer includes Laga\u2019aia\u2019s title character performing the song \u201cHow Far I\u2019ll Go,\u201d which was feature in the initial movie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tRounding out the cast are John Tui as Moana\u2019s father, Chief Tui; Frankie Adams as Moana\u2019s mother, Sina; and Rena Owen as Moana\u2019s Gramma Tala.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Moana trailer offers the first look at the denizens of Motunui, Johnson\u2019s shape-shifting demigod Maui and the intimidating tribe of Kakamora. Moana centers on wayfinder Moana (Laga\u2019aia) venturing beyond her island of Motunui with the help of Maui (Johnson) in an attempt to save her people. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tKail helmed the live-action movie from a script by Jared Bush and Dana Ledoux Miller. Johnson, Beau Flynn, Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia and Lin-Manuel Miranda serve as producers. Executive producing are Kail, Scott Sheldon, Charles Newirth and Auli\u2019i Cravalho, who voiced Moana in the 2016 film and its 2024 theatrical sequel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tJohnson originated the role of Maui in directors John Musker and Ron Clements\u2019 2016 animated Moana opposite Cravalho as the title character. Temuera Morrison, Nicole Scherzinger and Rachel House rounded out the voice cast for the film that collected $643 million at the global box office ($870 million today). Miranda earned an Oscar nomination for the original song \u201cHow Far I\u2019ll Go,\u201d and the movie was also nominated for best animated feature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLive-action remakes of popular animated properties continue to be a priority for Disney. The studio recently put a new version of 2010\u2019s Tangled <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/tangled-live-action-movie-scarlett-johansson-disney-1236397034\/\">back in development<\/a> after it was paused earlier this year following Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot\u2019s live-action\u00a0Snow White\u00a0underperforming at the box office. Disney had a massive summer hit with the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/lilo-and-stitch-mayhem-all-the-box-office-1236229988\/\">live-action remake of\u00a0Lilo &amp; Stitch<\/a>, while Barry Jenkins\u2019 prequel movie\u00a0Mufasa: The Lion King\u00a0also had a strong showing when it debuted late last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Catherine Laga\u2019aia and Dwayne Johnson are set to make a splash with the first trailer for Disney\u2018s live-action&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,437,77084,134,116476,344,18653],"class_list":{"0":"post-291202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-disney","11":"tag-dwayne-johnson","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-moana","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-trailer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}