‘Lilo & Stitch’: Disney Offers First Look At Stitch, Sets Summer 2025 Release For Live-Action Movie
deadline.comAt D23, Disney unveiled the mischievous alien in its live-action remake of animated hit Lilo & Stitch. The CGI-generated Sitch literally burst through the screen to reveal that the movie will premiere in summer 2025. (You can see it below.) No exact date was announced; the studio currently has two summer theatrical dates next year on hold, May 23 and Aug.
8. Besides the Stitch first look, no footage of the humans in Lilo & Stitch was shared. Newcomer Maia Kealoha is set to play Lilo in the live-action version of the Hawaii-set 2002 animated pic, originally developed for Disney+ before shifting to a theatrical release.
Dean Fleischer Camp (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On) idirects the film, which also stars Zach Galifianakis and Billy Magnussen.
It follows the relationship between a lonely girl named Lilo and Stitch, an alien engineered to be a force of destruction. Chris Kekaniokalani Bright scripted the new film, from a previous draft by Mike Van Waes.
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