Big news for fans of Lilo & Stitch as the live-action sequel gets a big name on board as writer.
My all-time favourite Disney animated movie, Lilo & Stitch is just such a delight from start to finish and as much as I didn’t expect to be saying this, the live-action version, while nowhere near as good, isn’t as utterly dire as many of Disney’s live-action updates and with it recently becoming first Hollywood movie of 2025 to cross the billion-dollar mark at the worldwide box office, it’s no surprise the big guns are coming out – or coming back, in this case – for the sequel.
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Co-creator/writer/director of the 2002 original Lilo and Stitch, Chris Sanders (who also voices Stitch in all versions) is looking set to write the live-action sequel.
Sanders has a long history in animation, including The Wild Robot (and its planned sequel), How to Train Your Dragon, and The Croods, so his involvement in this project will be most welcome.
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