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Moana, Maui, and Pua stand in the shallow ocean with a vibrant coral reef, looking at a magical island under a starry sky.

Moana, Maui, and Pua stand in the shallow ocean with a vibrant coral reef, looking at a magical island under a starry sky.

Moana 3 (2028): The Call of the Deep Tagline: “The ocean gave her life. Now, it calls her home.” ACT I: A NEW AGE OF WAYFINDERS Several years after the events of Moana 2, the islands thrive once again. Motufetu has risen from the depths, and Moana — now a demigoddess of the ocean and wayfinding — guides her people across a flourishing Pacific world. Trade, exploration, and song unite the islands as they rebuild their ancestral connection to the sea. Moana, however, feels a strange emptiness — the ocean has gone silent. The waves no longer whisper, and her powers as a demigoddess are weakening. The stars that once guided wayfinders begin to vanish one by one. When Maui returns, now wearing new tattoos representing their shared adventures, he reveals that Te Fiti has gone missing — her island is crumbling, and the balance of life is faltering again. The sea itself seems afraid. ACT II: THE DEPTHS OF VAIKAVAI Moana seeks guidance from her ancestor Tautai Vasa, who warns her of a primordial force older than Te Fiti and even the ocean itself: Vaihavā (pronounced “VAI-ha-vah”), the Goddess of the Deep, who slumbers in the abyss far below the ocean floor. Vaihavā, angered by humanity’s constant disturbance of the seas and the raising of Motufetu, has begun pulling the ocean back into herself — draining its spirit, reclaiming what she believes was stolen from her. To restore balance, Moana must journey beneath the ocean into Vaihavā’s sunken realm — The Undersea Night, a See more