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‘Moana' has her origins questioned at trial where man says his surfer boy led to the Disney hit
Buck Woodall sued in 2020, alleging that essential elements of his script for “Bucky the Surfer Boy” were co-opted for “Moana ...
PA Media on MSN9d
Plagiarism battle in US court over Disney’s smash-hit Moana
The two properties “involve a main character who encounters a demigod with a giant hook and tattoos”, the lawsuit claims. In ...
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‘Moana' has her origins questioned at trial where man says his surfer boy led to the Disney hit
voiced by Robin Williams. “So many of the extrinsic elements of ‘Moana’ have been in previous Musker and Clements films, indeed in Disney films going back a century,” the expert ...
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'Moana' has her origins questioned at trial where man says his surfer boy led to the Disney hit
A defense expert said that the relationship between Moana and the shapeshifting demigod Maui, voiced by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, reflects Aladdin and his shapeshifting Genie, voiced by Robin ...