(L to R) Maia Kealoha as Lilo, Sew and Sydney Agudong as Nani in Disney’s live-action ‘Lilo & Sew’. Photograph courtesy of Disney. © 2025 Disney Enterprises Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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- A sequel to the live-action ‘Lilo & Sew’ is in improvement.
- Disney is hoping for an additional hit.
- There aren’t any particulars on a inventive staff but.
All it took to get Disney again on the live-action bandwagon was one hit.
It was, at the very least, a giant hit because the live-action remake of 2002 animated outing ‘Lilo & Stitch’ has been making piles of cash on the field workplace because it hit theaters on the finish of Could.
The film, which follows an lovely blue alien creature crash touchdown on Earth in Hawaii and bonding with a younger lady, has made greater than $400,000 domestically and is climbing in direction of a billion worldwide.
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Which signifies that Disney –– which had been contemplating cutting down its animated-to-live-action pipeline after the dearth of success with ‘Snow White’ –– is now creating a ‘Stitch’ sequel, which is able to see the critter getting as much as extra chaos.
The studio made the announcement in a social media put up that includes Sew himself…
It’s actually welcome information for Disney, which has additionally seen hassle with Pixar’s ‘Elio’ –– the cpm authentic title from the Emeryville firm that resides beneath the Mouse Home’s banner –– which has struggled in opposition to competitors for household audiences from ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ (which represents Disney rivals DreamWorks getting in on the animation-to-live-action motion) and ‘Sew’ itself.
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What’s the story of ‘Lilo & Sew’?
Sew in Disney’s live-action ‘Lilo & Sew’. Photograph courtesy of Disney. © 2025 Disney Enterprises Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Whereas there are small tweaks to the narrative, the 2025 ‘Lilo & Sew’ outing largely recycles the ‘toon model’s story of an alien experiment who escapes from the outer house lab the place it was created, steals a spaceship and crashes on Earth, the place he’s adopted by Lilo (Maia Kealoha) and older sister Nani (Sydney Elizebeth Agudong).
The creature creates all types of issues for the siblings together with his anarchic methods, however he involves be taught the true which means of “Ohana” –– household.
This cpm model was directed by Dean Fleischer Camp (‘Marcel the Shell with Shoes On’) from a script by Chris Kekaniokalani Shiny and Mike Van Waes.
Chris Sanders, who co-wrote and directed the unique alongside Dean DeBlois, returned to voice Sew.
Who’s engaged on the ‘Lilo & Sew’ sequel?
(L to R) Sew and Maia Kealoha as Lilo in Disney’s live-action ‘Lilo & Sew’. Photograph courtesy of Disney. © 2024 Disney Enterprises Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Regardless of the announcement, Disney has but to verify any particulars for a inventive staff this time round. We’d think about Camp will get first crack at directing and the writers could already be at work on a brand new script.
Kealoha and Agudong are more likely to be again as Lilo and Nani, and far of the solid would in all probability return (until the brand new film takes place in a wholly new location).
There’s precedent for this –– the unique has lengthy since spawned sequels (principally straight to dwelling leisure) and TV sequence.
And never forgetting the billions in Sew-themed merchandising gross sales.
When will the ‘Lilo & Sew’ sequel be in theaters?
(L to R) Sew in Disney’s live-action ‘Lilo & Sew’. Photograph courtesy of Disney. © 2025 Disney Enterprises Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Consistent with the opposite particulars, Disney has but to verify when this one is perhaps out.
Subsequent up from the studio by way of remade animated motion pictures is the live-action tackle ‘Moana’, which has a July tenth, 2026 launch date set.
(L to R) Maia Kealoha as Lilo and Sydney Agudong as Nani in Disney’s live-action ‘Lilo & Sew’. Photograph by Matt Kennedy. © 2025 Disney Enterprises Inc. All Rights Reserved.