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#2: Moana

While not the biggest Disney animated feature of 2016 (that honor belongs to Zootopia), Moana undoubtedly has a lot of big things going for it: its exotic South Seas setting, its Lin-Manuel Miranda-created soundtrack, its strong female princess lead, her story not being centered around a romantic love interest, her strictly platonic relationship with the male lead, and of course, that male lead being voiced by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

While the movie wasn’t as big as Zootopia, it equally has the same potential of becoming something bigger than itself through the continuation of its story, if not through another sequel, than at least with a television adaptation.

After all, the end of the movie has Moana leading her people on an expedition to explore the seas outside her island home — all so that she can finally know how far she’ll go! That’s the ideal setup for a television series highlighting her adventures on the open seas. (Consider it the ancient South Seas version of Star Trek, with Moana and her people boldly going where no island princess has gone before.)

And since the movie is heavily-influenced by Polynesian mythology, the series could be used to further explore said mythology, with Moana and Maui exploring different islands, meeting different mythological characters and gods, and not to mention fighting mythological beasts and monsters.

This series could be to Polynesian mythology the same way the Hercules series was to Greek mythology. Most importantly, just as the movie introduced Americans to a culture and its mythology that’s often overlooked by them, this series could be used to teach them more about said culture and myths. (And if they can get The Rock to continue his role as Maui, it would be more than worth it.)