A jury quickly rejected a man’s claim that Disney’s “Moana” was stolen from his story of a young surfer in Hawaii.

Was “Moana” based on a boy named Bucky? Plaintiffs will argue that it was in closing arguments in a federal court in Los Angeles on Monday at a trial over the origins of Disney’s 2016 hit about a questing Polynesian princess.

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.