Kail to direct Disney’s live-action MOANA movie musical

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 5/26/23 at 2:57pm

https://thedisinsider.com/2023/05/26/hamilton-director-thomas-kail-to-direct-live-action-moana/

As previously reported, The Rock will reprise his role as Maui and there is a casting search for the title role of Moana. 

[verywellthensigh]

Posted: 5/26/23 at 5:59pm

How will any of us be able to contain our excitement?

[BwayLB]

Posted: 5/26/23 at 7:42pm

Makes sense because of In the Heights and Hamilton. But who knows if talent will translate into a worthy product.

[bear88]

Posted: 5/26/23 at 8:36pm

I’m not excited about a live-action version of Moana, but I can’t get excited about any of these live-action remakes. Kail might do OK with it, as he has experience both with musicals and TV direction (and Lin-Manuel Miranda, obviously). Does that mean we can be spared an unnecessary remake of Fiddler on the Roof?

[James885]

Posted: 5/26/23 at 9:48pm

How long till the inevitable live-action FROZEN?

[Tag]

Posted: 5/26/23 at 11:49pm

What happened to Kail's Fiddler remake?

[Ke3]

Posted: 5/27/23 at 2:44am

Tag said: "What happened to Kail's Fiddler remake?"

I think like everything MGM greenlit before they sold to Amazon, it was just advertising as they looked for a buyer. "Look what IP we've got to exploit!!!"

[MichelleCraig]

Posted: 5/27/23 at 2:51am

After all is said and done, it is the Disney animated classics that remain classics…not the live-action reinterpretations.

[Blue_Lotus]

Posted: 5/27/23 at 6:44am

MichelleCraig said: "After all is said and done, it is the Disney animated classics that remain classics…not the live-action reinterpretations."

Yes. The only one I really liked was “Cinderella”. The others fall short. 

[BwayLB]

Posted: 5/27/23 at 8:20am

^ Cinderella was the best yes. But I also liked Dumbo, Aladdin, Mulan and most recently Peter Pan & Wendy. Pinocchio was meh and I expected more considering the cast and Robert Zemeckis.