“Lilo & Stitch”, the animated 2022 feature, directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, is being adapted into a live-action feature, releasing May 23, 2025 in theaters:
“…the original film tells the story of two individuals: an orphaned Hawaiian girl named ‘Lilo Pelekai’, who is raised by her struggling older sister, ‘Nani’, after their parents' deaths…
“…and the genetically engineered extraterrestrial creature ‘Experiment 626’, who Lilo adopts as her ‘dog’ and renames ‘Stitch’…
“Stitch, designed to cause chaos and destruction, initially uses Lilo to avoid recapture by an ‘intergalactic federation’.
“They develop a close bond through the Hawaiian concept of ‘Ohana’, or extended family, causing Stitch to reconsider his intended destructive purpose in order to keep his newfound family together…”
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