Lin-Manuel Miranda is opening up about why he didn't return for 'Moana 2.' Miranda, who wrote the music for 2016's 'Moana' and received an Oscar nomination for the song "How Far I'll Go," recently spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about his latest work on 'Mufasa: The Lion King alongside the film's director Barry Jenkins.
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00:00Lin-Manuel Miranda is opening up about why he didn't return for Moana 2.
00:06Miranda, who wrote the music for 2016's Moana and received an Oscar nomination for the song
00:11How Far I'll Go, recently spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about his latest work on Mufasa the Lion
00:16King, alongside the film's director, Barry Jenkins. When asked if he had to choose between
00:21working on the Lion King prequel and Moana 2, Miranda said this,
00:24It didn't line up that way, actually. I got the script for Mufasa when I just finished Encanto,
00:32and so I started working on that at the top of 22. So, you know, Moana 2 was already in process
00:40as a TV series with Emily and Abigail, so then when that decision got made to turn that into
00:45a movie, they were already, you know, already cooking. The Hamilton creator went on to praise
00:49Emily Bear and Abigail Barlow's music that they wrote for the sequel, as well as the film's star.
00:54Yeah, they're so talented, and you know, more than anything, what's so thrilling,
00:58you know, we hired Auli'i when she was 14 years old, and the stuff she's singing in this new film
01:04is so just technically difficult to see how far she's come as a performer. It's really extraordinary.
01:09For more from THR's interview with Miranda and all the latest movie news,
01:13head to THR.com. This is The Hollywood Reporter News.