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‘Moana 2’ Directors Discuss Expanding Identity, Raised Stakes And Original ‘Darker’ Mid-Credit Scene
The directors of 'Moana 2' spoke about expanding her identity, whether she is a princess and unpack the ending.
Directors Dana Ledoux Miller, Jason Hand and David G. Derrick Jr. navigated these high expectations as well as the transformation of the sequel film into a movie from what was originally supposed to be a television series. We had a couple of minutes of it animated that proved out that this could be a feature from a quality standpoint, but it was still in what we consider our story real form, where it’s storyboards that are cut together with music and dialog, and we test the film like that internally, and we show it to our studio, and we get notes and so in the at the end, it really is where all of these departments come on and come together, and we make the final product that way. HAND: TheMaui part of this was, from a narrative standpoint, it’s exciting to have the audiences want these characters to be back together, and so by naturally having them be on the same quest from the get go, but they don’t really both realize that they’re both doing that, and then they’re on these two train tracks that are eventually going to collide into each other, it helps build the anticipation and knowing that they’re going to be together.
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