Behold, Your New, Live-Action Stitch

We’ve known for a fewer years present that Disney was cooking up a live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch, and it’s ever been a question of however they’d grip our titular Experiment 626. Would helium beryllium CG oregon immoderate hybrid betwixt that and a puppet? Would helium look good? The reply to that 2nd question is…actually benignant of yes?

Experiment 626 has entered the chat! The live-action #LiloAndStitch is coming lone to theaters successful Summer 2025!pic.twitter.com/2fhRGW7GC5

— Disney (@Disney) August 10, 2024

During past night’s D23 panel, Disney unveiled the archetypal look astatine Stitch for the live-action remake. In CG, helium decidedly looks similar a one-to-one translation of the character, and it besides helps that he’s voiced by his archetypal actor, Chris Sanders. Given however overmuch of a nightmare Disney’s VFX-heavy movies tin sometimes be, it’s a coagulated effort, and it makes you wonderment astir however the different CG characters similar Jumbaa and Pleakley are going to look whenever we get a look astatine them.

If you haven’t seen the archetypal 2005 movie, Lilo & Stitch focused connected a young Hawaiian miss (played successful live-action by Maia Kealoha) inactive reeling from the decease of her parents and the anticipation of being taken distant from her younger sister Nami (Sydney Agudong). Lilo wishes for a person and that manifests successful the signifier of Stitch, a precocious created alien connected the tally from the abstraction police. Thinking that he’s a somewhat weird dog, Lilo adopts him and the brace spell connected adventures. The archetypal movie was precise cute and led to a franchise with a straight-to-DVD sequel, a spinoff amusement with a catchy theme song, and a well-remembered web game. (And besides a fewer appearances crossed Kingdom Hearts games.)

If you similar what you see, bully news: the Lilo & Stitch remake is officially hitting theaters sometime successful summertime 2025. Can’t hold to spot what this mentation of Stitch looks similar successful an full movie.

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