{"id":361316,"date":"2026-03-23T18:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/361316\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T18:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:58:09","slug":"moana-trailer-shows-off-dwayne-johnsons-maui-more-in-live-action-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/361316\/","title":{"rendered":"Moana Trailer Shows Off Dwayne Johnson&#8217;s Maui &#038; More in Live-Action Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/tag\/Disney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Disney<\/a>\u00a0has released the first official\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/comingsoon.net\/tag\/moana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Moana<\/a>\u00a0live-action trailer, previewing more of the upcoming live-action adaptation of the movie starring\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/tag\/Dwayne-Johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Dwayne Johnson<\/a>\u00a0and Catherine Laga\u2019aia. The Moana live-action movie is set to release in theaters on July 10, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Disney\u2019s live-action adaptation of the beloved Oscar-nominated animated adventure, Moana (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/tag\/Catherine-Lagaaia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laga\u02bbaia<\/a>) answers the Ocean\u2019s call and, for the first time, voyages beyond the reef of her island of Motunui with the infamous demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson) on an unforgettable journey to restore prosperity to her people,\u201d reads the film\u2019s official synopsis.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the Moana live-action trailer below (<a href=\"http:\/\/comingsoon.net\/trailers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">watch other trailers<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>What happens in the Moana live-action trailer? <\/p>\n<p>The new trailer highlights the recreation of the original 2016 film. In it, the titular Moana will set forth on an adventure to reunite a relic with the goddess Te Fiti. Along the way, she joins forces with Maui, a demigod, and the two journey together to try and help Moana save her people. <\/p>\n<p>Alongside Laga\u2019aia and Johnson, the Moana live-action movie is also set to star John Tui, Frankie Adams, and Rena Owen. The movie is directed by Thomas Kail from a script written by Jared Bush and Dana Ledoux Miller. Johnson, Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia, and Beau Flynn produce the film.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaying Maui has been the gift of a lifetime. Growing up as a Samoan \u2014\u00a0half Samoan and half black \u2014 in Samoan culture, Polynesian culture? We\u2019re proud people,\u201d Johnson\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/movies\/news\/2058594-moana-live-action-disney-remake-gets-great-news-from-dwayne-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">said in a recent interview<\/a>. \u201cProud of our culture. And what\u00a0Moana\u00a0has represented is a really awesome global embrace of Polynesian culture, our values and our qualities and our pride and our mana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1024\" width=\"688\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image002.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2111320\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney\u00a0has released the first official\u00a0Moana\u00a0live-action trailer, previewing more of the upcoming live-action adaptation of the movie starring\u00a0Dwayne Johnson\u00a0and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[163385,9618,11298,93,61,60,82917,2703,270,12541],"class_list":["post-361316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-catherine-lagaaia","tag-disney","tag-dwayne-johnson","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-moana","tag-movie-news","tag-movies","tag-trailers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}