The Live-Action 'Lilo & Stitch' Remake Has Cast Lilo
The Live-Action 'Lilo & Stitch' Remake Has Cast Lilo
The actress is the second announced for Disney's remake of their 2002 animated movie.
The Ohana is officially coming together. Disney has cast 6-year-old Hawaiian actress Maia Kealoha as Lilo Pelekai in its upcoming live-action (hybrid?) Lilo & Stitch, bringing a new take on what was arguably the studio’s most successful film of the 2000s decade.
When the franchise was vast, Lilo was primarily voiced by Daveigh Chase, subsequently in Stitch! The Movie, Lilo & Stitch: The Series, and the finale film Leroy & Stitch. However, Dakota Fanning filled in for Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, and Melissa Fahn was her English dub voice for the Stitch! anime series… as a child. Gwendoline Yeo voiced the adult Lilo in the present day the series takes place in. Marcel the Shell With Shoes On director Dean Fleischer Camp is directing this film, previously announced to have cast Zach Galifianakis as Pleakley, intended for Disney+ next year.
The Hawaii-set story is about Lilo, a lonely orphaned girl under the care of her sister Nani with social workers on their backs. She ends up bonding with a dog-like alien named Stitch, who was genetically engineered to be a force of destruction (and has his own bounty hunters in pursuit) over a shared sense of family. And a heavy dose of Elvis Presley along the way. Chris Kekaniokalani Bright wrote the script that adapts Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois’s original.