Lilo & Stitch Is The Next Disney Live-Action Remake
Ohana means nobody gets left behind in Disney's next redo.
The best Disney character of all (fight me) is headed back to cinemas.
Thanks to Disney's new obsession with remaking classic animations as live action movies, we're about to get to see one of the most unexpected Disney remakes ever. Because Lilo & Stitch has just been unveiled as the next animation to be given the remake treatment (this time as a live-action/CGI hybrid).
The new take on the beloved 2002 animation - which is about as close to a cult classic that Disney have in their animated catalogue - will be made by Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich - the same team working on the live-action remake of Aladdin, though a director will be set in the near future, presumably. It's being written by new up-and-comer Mike Van Waes in place of original script-writers Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders.
Hopefully, we'll get a Polynesian cast, just as the Aladdin cast is predominantly looking at geographically appropriate actors.
The story follows an outsider - Lilo - who finds friendship with another outsider, an alien war machine created in a lab as a weapon of mass destruction who ends up on Earth as a fugitive. It has one of the purest messages of all Disney movies too as Ohana represents an inclusive message of love that has wonderful connotations.
Plus, anything that celebrates weirdness rather than ironing it out of people is a bloody good thing. Let's just hope they get the CGI on Stitch himself right. And please, PLEASE, Disney, hire Ving Rhames again to play Agent Cobra Bubbles. Or at the very least bring in The Rock to replace him.
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