{"id":680820,"date":"2026-07-08T18:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/680820\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T18:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:03:10","slug":"what-went-wrong-with-disneys-live-action-moana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/680820\/","title":{"rendered":"What went wrong with Disney&#8217;s live-action Moana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">When a trailer for the new live-action remake of Disney&#8217;s Moana went online in March, one of the main talking points was the sight of Dwayne Johnson&#8217;s long, curly and weirdly unconvincing wig. The Rock&#8217;s locks prompted countless unkind comments, but the most damning insult came from the accordion-playing, pop-parodying Weird Al Yankovic, who posted a photo of the bewigged Johnson on Instagram, alongside the caption: &#8220;We&#8217;ve told all the casting agents that the Weird Al biopic sequel is currently on hold, but they just keep sending in headshots.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When a trailer for the new live-action remake of Disney&#8217;s Moana went online in March, one of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-680820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}