Logo text
Once you’re part of the ohana, you’re part of it in animation and live-action. Chris Sanders, who co-created, co-wrote and co-directed the original Lilo & Stitch animated movie, will now direct Disney’s sequel to its live-action Lilo & Stitch megahit. Sanders, who also voiced the character of Stitch in both animated and live-action form, was already deeply involved with the feature as its screenwriter. The sequel is now on the wave to production, with shooting due to begin later this year. Jonathan Eirich, who produced the initial live-action remake, is back as producer via Rideback. The company’s Ryan Halprin is exec producing. Stitch centers on a lonely girl who befriends a blue puppy that turns out to be an escaped alien engineered to be a weapon of mass destruction. The original movie produced some memorable lines, such as “Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind,” and was followed by two direct-to-video sequels, Stitch! The Movie and Stitch Has a Glitch, as well as Lilo & Stitch: The Series. Disney rebooted the title with the live-action feature that, thanks to families and Gen Zers who grew up on the original, powered to over $1 billion dollars at the box office, $423.7 million of that domestically. The sequel will be a brand-new story. The 2025 movie was directed by Dean Fleischer Camp (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On). Chris Kekaniokalani Bright and Mike Van Waes were the writers.
