The Los Angeles federal jury deliberated for only about 2 ½ hours befo….

The Los Angeles federal jury deliberated for only about 2 ½ hours before deciding that the creators of “Moana’ never had access to writer and animator Buck Woodall’s outlines and script for “Bucky the Surfer Boy.” “Obviously we’re disappointed,” Woodall’s attorney Gustavo Lage said outside court. “We are incredibly proud of the collective work that went into the making of Moana and are pleased that the jury found it had nothing to do with Plaintiff’s works,’ Disney said in a statement. The jury of six women and two men considered a story outline that Woodall created for ‘Bucky’ in 2003, along with a 2008 update and a 2011 script. In the latter versions of the story, the title character, vacationing in Hawaii with his parents, befriends a group of Native Hawaiian youth and goes on a quest that includes time travel to the ancient islands and interactions with demigods to save a sacred site from a developer.

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