Moana’s live-action director explains what’s different in the new version

What will this summer’s Moana bring that the original version didn’t have? Polygon spoke to Thomas Kail, the director of the live-action version, to ask what we should expect from the new edition. Kail has plenty of experience with musicals: He directed Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton and In the Heights on and off Broadway. Similarly, he’s worked in other projects that transform musical stories from one medium to another: He shot Disney’s live-from-Broadway movie version of Hamilton, and Paramount’s live TV version of the musical Grease. What does that mean for live-action Moana? We discussed it in this preview interview.