Watch the Hamilton mastermind at work with the animation team to create music for our latest Disney heroine. No really, it’s like an army of awesome. Sitting with the directors, story-board artists, animators and writers of Moana, the magic that is Lin-Manuel Miranda fits seamlessly with the collaborative minds working under the...
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How a Little Mermaid fanboy went on to become Disney’s go-to guy! Growing up just like us on a steady Disney diet, a young Lin-Manuel Miranda fell in love with music when he watched Ron Clements and John Musker’s The Little Mermaid and now he’s the lyricist on their latest animated picture Moana! During the press tour...
Walt Disney Animation Studios just released a new clip from their upcoming feature, Moana, in which Maui (played by Dwayne Johnson) humble brags his way through a song. The song “You’re Welcome” is written by Tony Award winner and Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda. You can check out the clip below! About the film: During her journey...
Today, Disney released a brand new trailer (above) revealing more details about exactly what sort of adventure the tenacious young Moana is in for later this year. Are you as excited about this movie as I am? SUMMARY: Three thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast Pacific, discovering the many islands of...
While Miranda wore fluffy shirts backstage on a little Broadway show called Hamilton. At an early press day for Disney Animation Studios’ latest feature Moana, Legion of Leia asked story writers Jared Bush and Dave Pimentel about working with Lin-Manuel Miranda in order to create the film’s musical moments. As we found out at...
Disney Renaissance-era directors Ron Clements and John Musker, who brought us The Little Mermaid and Aladdin, are reuniting for this year’s Disney Princess animated feature Moana. We were able to get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the film along with the directors, writers and animators at a special early sneak peek day...
Disney Animation Studios let Moana composer Lin-Manuel Miranda take over their Instagram and it was glorious. A long time Disney films fan, Miranda spent his time in between shooting content for Moana singing snippets of beloved Disney Classics. As Hamilton fans know, Miranda has often given The Little Mermaid credit for being his inspiration to...
Jemaine Clement, Rachel House, Temuera Morrison, Nicole Scherzinger and Alan Tudyk have joined the voice cast of the upcoming Disney animated feature, Moana, which centers on South Pacific mythology. Clement (What We Do In the Shadows) is voicing Tamatoa, a self-absorbed, 50-foot crab who lives in Lalotai, the realm of monsters. Tudyk, who has...
Fan art for the upcoming Disney Princess movie Moana has been popping up all over the internet, before we even have a real character design. At Disney’s D23 Expo in Anaheim, CA this weekend, I got a chance to chat with directors Ron Clements and John Musker, and producer Osnat Shurer, as well as Dwayne Johnson, who will voice the role of...