After its African-American led ‘The Princess and the Frog’ saw its Box Office success sing to the tune of $267 million, Disney has announced that it is to embrace diversity once again this year…welcoming its very first Polynesian princess to its fairytale family.
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Nabbing a 2016 release date this year, ‘Moana’ will mark the first time a character from the Pacific Islands will lead a Disney project, set to be brought to life by the creatives behind ‘Aladdin’, the aforementioned ‘Princess’ and ‘The Little Mermaid.‘
Disney shares:
Originally described as a “mythic adventure set around 2000 years ago and across a series of islands in the South Pacific.” The film will follow the journey of a spirited teenager named Moana as she sails the Pacific Ocean to complete her “ancestor’s quest.”
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Hope she’s Maori
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Diversity for diversity’s sake is kind of b*******, but I’m glad other stories, international stories, multicultural stories are being told. I grew up reading world mythologies and there’s a wealth of storytelling that could be explored besides the traditional European fairy tales
Well in a way its about time they did a Polynesian princess seeing that a lot of the disney princess singers were Pinoy.
They always had diversity… Jasmin, esmeralda, Mulan, pocahontas…
Always? Disney almost 100 years old and everyone you named is from mid to late 90’s…
in the beginning they had animals… wanna complain about that, too?
Yes, maybe the began with it in the 90’s. But it’s not like they do it for the second time with kiss the frog being the first movie having a non-White princess (like the articles suggests).
It is a admirable move, but she just does not look polynesian to me.
I can’t wait till this comes out I wonder what it is about it is going to be great!