Lilo & Stitch (2025 film)

Lilo & Stitch is an upcoming American science fiction comedy adventure film. It is a live action remake of the 2002 Disney animated feature film of the same name. It is being written by Chris Kekaniokalani Bright and is being directed by Dean Fleischer Camp. The project was announced in October 2018, and principal photography began in spring 2023. It will be released in theaters on May 23, 2025.
==Cast==
*Chris Sanders as the voice of Stitch
*Maia Kealoha as Lilo Pelekai
*Zach Galifianakis as the voice of Jumba Jookiba
*Billy Magnussen as the voice of Pleakley
*Sydney Elizabeth Agudong as Nani Pelekai
*Kaipo Dudoit as David Kawena
*Courtney B. Vance as Cobra Bubbles
*Tia Carrere as Mrs. Kekoa
*Hannah Waddingham as the voice of Grand Councilwoman
*Amy Hill as Tūtū
*Jason Scott Lee as Luau Manager
==Production==
===Development===
A live-action adaptation of Lilo & Stitch was first reported in October 3, 2018, to be under development at Walt Disney Pictures, with Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich of production studio Rideback producing, and Mike Van Waes writing the film's script.
On November 13, 2020, it was reported that Jon M. Chu was in talks to direct the film, while Disney was looking for a new writer to re-write Van Waes' script. However, it was later reported in May 2021 that Chu decided to leave production to focus on his film adaptations of Wicked and China Rich Girlfriend.
On July 14, 2022, Deadline reported that Dean Fleischer Camp will be the film's director, while Chris Kekaniokalani Bright was negotiating with Disney to rewrite the script.
On March 1, 2023, it was reported that the working title for the film is Bad Dog.
Kahiau Machado was supposed to play David Kawena but was quickly replaced with Kaipo Dudoit.
===Filming===
Principal photography was slated to start in Oahu, Hawaii on March 13, 2023, and finish on June 16. However, the first day of filming was later delayed to April 17, but was shortly postponed due to a fire. Filming eventually began on May 1, when a portion of a road in Hawaii was closed for the film's production. Filming was halted on July 14, 2023 due to the SAG-AFTRA strike.
==Release==
The DisInsider reported on February 4, 2020, that the film was originally planned for streaming release through Disney+. However, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter contradicted this in November 2020, saying that Disney has yet to decide on either a theatrical or streaming release. The release format remained unclear until November 2022, when it was revealed via a casting call that the film will be released via Disney+. However, at the 2024 D23 Expo event in August, it was announced that the film was going to be a summer 2025 theatrical release instead. Two months later, the film was given a release date of May 23, 2025 in the United States.
==Videos==
Lilo and Stitch - I Coming Summer 2025
-LiloAndStitch, coming to theaters on May 23, 2025!
Lilo & Stitch - Official Teaser
Lilo & Stitch - Official Teaser - In Theaters May 23
==Trivia==
*This is the first remake of a Walt Disney Animation Studios film that is from the post-Renaissance era, which are mostly films that failed at the box office commercially.
*This is the eighth Disney remake to release in the 2020s after Mulan, Cruella, Pinocchio, Peter Pan & Wendy, The Little Mermaid, Mufasa: The Lion King, and Snow White.
*This will be Zach Galifianakis' fifth Disney film after G-Force, The Muppets, Muppets Most Wanted, and A Wrinkle in Time.
**This will also be the second time that Zach Galifianakis will do a voice role for a Disney film, after Ron from 20th Century Studios' 2021 film Ron's Gone Wrong.
*This will be Billy Magnussen's third Disney film after Into the Woods and Aladdin.
**This will also be the second time that Billy Magnussen will do a role for a Disney remake, after portraying Prince Anders in the 2019 live-action adaption of Aladdin.
*This will be Hannah Waddingham's second Disney film after Hocus Pocus 2.
*This will be Courtney B. Vance's first role for a Disney film since starring in The Adventures of Huck Finn.
*Chris Sanders, Tia Carrere, and Jason Scott Lee had previously co-starred in the original animated film and its direct-to-video sequels (although Lee only had a role in the first two chronological films). Amy Hill also previously voiced a role in the original film and Lilo & Stitch: The Series, the latter which also had Sanders and Carrere starring.
**Sanders is the seventh actor to reprise his voice role as Stitch for a Disney remake of a previous Disney animated production, after Jim Cummings, Brad Garrett (both of whom reprised Winnie the Pooh, Tigger; also voiced by Cummings since the late 1980s; and Eeyore, whom Garrett voiced previously in Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree: Animated StoryBook and recently in Ralph Breaks the Internet and in the 2018 film Christopher Robin), Nancy Cartwright, Patton Oswalt (both of whom reprised Rufus and Professor Dementor in the live-action Kim Possible film), Frank Welker (who reprised the vocal effects for Abu and Rajah and the voice of the Cave of Wonders in Aladdin), and James Earl Jones (who reprised his role as Mufasa in The Lion King).
*Coincidentally, the first names of this film's writer and director are the same as those of the original film's co-writers and co-directors Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois.
**Additionally, this film will be released the same year as How to Train Your Dragon, another live-action remake of an animated film written and directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois.
*During production Chris Sanders had to juggle voicing Stitch in the remake while writing and directing The Wild Robot. Because of this, he could not go to Hawaii to film on set.
==Gallery==
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==References==
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