Disney Animation Studios Sets MOANA for 2018

The Walt Disney Animation Studios has released some new info on its upcoming 2018 feature, a Polynesia-set epic directed by veterans John Musker and Ron Clements (The Princess and the Frog, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin). The pic, which is titled Moana, will feature music by Mark Mancina and is described a “mythic adventure set around 2000 years ago and across a series of islands in the South Pacific.”

According to io9, the studio plans to release Moana (pronounced Mo-AH-na) in five years, and it sounds like it will be another interesting spin on a princess film, although a source tells Bleeding Cool that this story “is fresh and original, not a fairytale movie”.

(Thanks to io9 and Bleeding Cool)