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Moana Is Getting A New TV Series On Disney+

Gregory Robinson

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Moana Is Getting A New TV Series On Disney+

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Disney's beloved 2016 film Moana is becoming a franchise! The company announced an animated series based on the feature film is currently in development at Disney+.

Currently titled Moana: The Series, the TV adaptation will take audiences and fans back into the Pacific islands when the show premieres in 2023.

Moana: The Series will debut in 2023 (Credit: Disney)
Moana: The Series will debut in 2023 (Credit: Disney)

The series will incorporate music and will follow Moana, a passionate and sprited voyager, as she goes on another adventure which will take her even farther from home.

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Moana was released in 2016 and focused on the strong-willed daughter of a chief of a Polynesian village who is chosen by the ocean itself to reunite a mystical relic with the goddess Te Fiti.

When a blight strikes her island, Moana (Auliʻi Cravalho) sets sail and ventures into the unknown in search of Maui (Dwayne Johnson), a legendary demigod, in hope of returning the relic to Te Fiti and saving her island and its people.

Auli'i Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson at the Moana premiere in 2016 (Credit: PA)
Auli'i Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson at the Moana premiere in 2016 (Credit: PA)

The film was a success, grossing over $690 million at the box office and received rave reviews from both critics and audiences. It garnered two Oscar nominations for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song for 'How Far I'll Go', performed by Auli'I Cravalho.

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The voice cast also included Rchael House, Temuera Morrison, Jemaine Clement, Nicole Scherzinger and Alan Tudyk.

The cast for the animated series has not been confirmed but we have our fingers crossed, hoping that most of the OG voices return for Moana's next adventure!

Moana: The Series was announced at the Disney Investor Day 2020 conference, alongside a whole host of other animated series based on Disney films that are currently in development and set to premiere on Disney+ in the future.

Baymax, set to premiere in autumn 2021, is a spin-off from the feature film Big Hero 6. It will be based on Baymax, the robot in the film.

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A series based on The Princess and the Frog is also in development at Disney+ (Credit: Disney)
A series based on The Princess and the Frog is also in development at Disney+ (Credit: Disney)

Zootopia will get a TV spin-off titled Zootopia Plus. The film, which is titled Zootropolis in the UK, takes place in a city of talking animals where an unlikely partnership forms between a rabbit police officer and a red fox con artist as they set about uncovering a criminal conspiracy.

A series based on The Princess and the Frog, called Tiana after the princess in the film, is set for 2022.

Pixar's franchise Cars, which has spawned numerous sequels and TV shorts, will have its own Disney+ series in 2022. Pixar's Up, aka the film with the most heart-wrenching and beautiful opening ever, will get a spin-off series from the movie's creator Bob Peterson. Dug Days, which will focus on the talking dog from the film and voiced by Peterson, will debut in Autumn 2021.

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In related Pixar news, the animation studio has it's very first long-form animated series in development and it is based on an original idea. Win or Lose hails from Carrie Hobson and Michael Yates, who worked on the award winning and critically acclaimed 2019 sequel, Toy Story 4. Set to premiere in Autumn 2023, the series is about a co-ed middle-school softball team in the week leading up to their championship game. Every episode will be told from the perspective of a different character.

We can't wait to see how far Moana goes in her very own series!

Topics: Film News, Disney, TV and Film, TV News, Disney Plus

Gregory Robinson
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