We’ve recognized for a couple of years now that Disney was cooking up a live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch, and it’s at all times been a query of how they’d deal with our titular Experiment 626. Would he be CG or some hybrid between that and a puppet? Would he look good? The reply to that second query is…truly sort of sure?
Experiment 626 has entered the chat! The live-action #LiloAndStitch is coming solely to theaters in Summer season 2025!pic.twitter.com/2fhRGW7GC5
— Disney (@Disney) August 10, 2024
Throughout final evening’s D23 panel, Disney unveiled the primary take a look at Sew for the live-action remake. In CG, he positively seems like a one-to-one translation of the character, and it additionally helps that he’s voiced by his authentic actor, Chris Sanders. Given how a lot of a nightmare Disney’s VFX-heavy films can typically be, it’s a stable effort, and it makes you surprise about how the opposite CG characters like Jumbaa and Pleakley are going to look every time we get a take a look at them.
If you happen to haven’t seen the unique 2005 film, Lilo & Sew centered on a younger Hawaiian woman (performed in live-action by Maia Kealoha) nonetheless reeling from the demise of her dad and mom and the potential for being taken away from her youthful sister Nami (Sydney Agudong). Lilo needs for a pal and that manifests within the type of Sew, a lately created alien on the run from the house police. Pondering that he’s a barely bizarre canine, Lilo adopts him and the pair go on adventures. The primary film was very cute and led to a franchise with a straight-to-DVD sequel, a by-product present with a catchy theme song, and a well-remembered web game. (And in addition a couple of appearances throughout Kingdom Hearts video games.)
If you happen to like what you see, excellent news: the Lilo & Sew remake is formally hitting theaters someday in summer season 2025. Can’t wait to see what this model of Sew seems like in a complete film.
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