Dwayne Johnson Surprises CinemaCon With Sneak Peek of ‘Moana 2’

2 months after Disney chief executive officer Bob Iger’s shock news that Moana 2 remained in the operate at the workshop and set up to strike cinemas on Nov. 27, the computer animated follow up took spotlight at CinemaCon.

Disney debuted a special preview of video footage of the David Derrick Jr.-directed movie ahead of movie theater proprietors with the aid of its super star voice skill,Dwayne Johnson He showed up to the phase after a mini-performance from Polynesian professional dancers. Johnson is back for the brand-new installation along with stars from the initial consisting of Auli’i Cravalho and others.

“As we say on the island, aloha,” Johnson stated, clothed for the celebration in pants and a white storage tank top.“Playing the character of Maui is one of the most life-changing life experiences for me and life changing roles.”

He included that the personality is much deeper than simply a job since it represents his society, a lot to ensure that it gets on his upper body with his tattoos, and it’s additionally unique to his grandpa.“It’s so much deeper than a movie to me and I know it’s deeper for Disney, too.”

Per Disney, the tale gets after Moana gets an unforeseen telephone call from her wayfinding forefathers, so she triggers on a trip to the much seas of Oceania and right into harmful, long-lost waters for an experience unlike anything she has actually ever before dealt with. The video footage included brand-new songs and spectacular visuals in the very same blood vessel as the initial. Johnson assured “an all new crew, all new setting and, of course, new songs — you’re welcome,” he stated, informing movie theater proprietors its mosting likely to be the best getaway this winter months.

Derrick’s movie was at first created as a television collection, Iger verified on the profits call February. “The original Moana film from 2016 recently crossed 1 billion hours streamed on Disney+, and was the most streamed movie of 2023 on any platform in the U.S. Along with the live-action version of the original film that’s currently in development, Moana remains an incredibly popular franchise, and we can’t wait to give you more of Moana and Maui when Moana 2 comes to theaters this November,” Iger stated at the time, highlighting the movie’s ongoing social prestige.

That 2016 movie, additionally launched in November of that year, was routed by Ron Clements and John Musker. It took place to earn greater than $248 million at the residential ticket office for a worldwide haul of north of $643 million. It additionally obtained 2 Academy Honor elections, one for ideal computer animated function and one more for ideal initial track, for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “How Far I’ll Go” sung by Cravalho.

Moana 2 is not to be perplexed with the various other Moana task in the operate at Disney, a live-action movie established to starJohnson The workshop verified recently that Thomas Kail’s live-action offering was being pressed back from June 27, 2025, to a brand-new launch day of July 10, 2026. The action provides the remake breathing space from the computer animated Moana 2, which opens this November.

Additionally as component of the Moana section, NATO chair Bob Bagby shocked Johnson by offering him with NATO’s spirit of the sector honor, the 2nd prize of its kind complying with in 2015’s, which existed to Christopher Nolan. “This award honors your unequal passion and commitment to the theatrical experience,” Bagby stated. In approving, Johnson stated, “I gotta tell you that, with all the changes, ebbs and flows and growth and progress, the one thing that will always remain is the theater experience.”