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”

A Los Angeles federal jury quickly decided that the creators of “Moana” never had access to Buck Woodall’s outlines and script for “Bucky the Surfer Boy.”