In its ongoing effort to adapt its entire animated catalog into hybrid live-action/CG efforts (where the story calls for at least the latter, and it surely will), Disney has planned to give lillo and point treatment since at least 2018. The first piece of casting for the film appeared in the wild, like the Hollywood reporter brings word that Zach Galifianakis is on board.
The original film, directed by Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders, followed Lilo, a lonely Hawaiian girl who forms a bond with an alien dog-like creature she calls Stitch. Designed to wreak havoc, Stitch changes his mind when Lilo teaches Stitch the importance of “Ohana,” the Hawaiian concept of family, and introduces him to the music of one Elvis Presley. The movie was successful enough to spawn straight-to-home entertainment sequels, a TV movie, and a TV series.
Though Jon M Chu was slated to direct in 2020, he’s been a bit busy since then making not one, but two movies of the musical. Bad. But there’s good news to assuage any disappointment since then Marcel the shell with shoes Director Dean Fleischer Camp is on board, working from a screenplay by Chris Kekaniokalani Bright.
No one says who Galifianakis will play, but the search has now begun to find actors for Lilo and her older sister, Nani. Disney currently has this schedule for a May 10, 2024 release, but we’ll see if it sticks.
Source: EmpireOnline
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