Jurors to decide whether 'Moana' came from a famed Disney duo or a man's story of a surfer boy
LOS ANGELES — Was 'Moana' based on a boy named Bucky?
An attorney for a man who alleges Disney's questing Polynesian princess was stolen from his work told jurors at a federal trial Monday that a long chain of circumstantial evidence and similarities so numerous they can't be coincidences make it clear that his story 'Bucky the Surfer Boy' was the basis for the hit 2016 animated film.
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