Animation screenwriter Buck Woodall has recently been involved in an ongoing controversy. A legal clash centers on allegations around Disney’s blockbuster follow-up movie, Moana 2. The animator ...

"They had never heard of Buck Woodall or 'Bucky' until four years after 'Moana' was released," Robert Klieger, an attorney for Disney, told the jury earlier Wednesday in his opening statement.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury on Monday quickly and completely rejected a man’s claim that Disney’s “Moana” was stolen from ... of “Moana” never had access to writer and animator Buck Woodall’s outlines ...