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‘Moana 2’: Read The Screenplay For Disney’s Record-Breaking Animated Sequel


Moana 2, Disney’s animated sequel, was written by Jared Bush and co-director Dana Ledoux Miller after originally set to be a TV series.

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind awards season’s most talked-about movies continues with Moana 2, Disney ’s wave-making sequel that arrived the day before Thanksgiving at the box office and hasn’t dropped anchor since. The story takes place three years after the events of the first Moana, which made a successful splash in 2016, scoring Oscar nominations in Animated Feature and Original Song for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “How Far I’ll Go.” The journey of self-discovery also featured new faces: Moana’s younger sister Simea (voiced by Khaleesi Lambert-Tsuda), scribe and archivist Moni (Hualālai Chung), engineer Loto (Rose Matafeo), agriculturist Kele (David Fane), demigoddess Matangi (Awhimai Fraser) and more.

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