Disney has just released its first peek at one of its most highly anticipated live-action remakes yet , and it looks exactly as you’d expect. Moana , the hit 2016 animated film, is coming to life next summer , and now you can see what star Catherine Lagaʻaia as Moana—and a little bit of Dwayne Johnson as Maui—looks like in real life.

Thomas Kail, who directed a little show called Hamilton , is at the helm, and he seems to have captured much of what the animated film looked like, down to the living water, the Kakamora, and of course, that beloved demigod himself. Here’s the first tease.

That sure does look like Moana , doesn’t it? Very on the nose. Almost a little too on the nose. Almost, “YouTube fake trailer” on the nose. But the film is still nine months from release, so

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