"Lilo & Stitch 2" Live-Action Movie in Works
Yara Sameh
Get ready for more Stitch mayhem. Disney is developing a sequel to its live-action remake of "
Lilo & Stitch
".
The studio announced the follow-up on 6/26 — a reference to the wild blue alien's government name, Experiment 626.
In a brief teaser, Stitch drives a hot-pink convertible through the Disney lot as he shouts, 'Get ready. Here we go!'.
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News of the follow-up film comes as 'Lilo & Stitch' has grossed over $910 million at the global box office since Memorial Day weekend.
Originally planned as a straight-to-streaming release, the PG adventure is on pace to become the year's first billion-dollar blockbuster, and this is just the theatrical windfall.
Long before he and Lilo returned to the big screen, Stitch-themed merchandise has remained a huge moneymaker for Disney in the 23 years since the original 2002 animated film.
In 2024, Disney sold $2.6 billion in consumer products featuring the 'Lilo & Stitch' characters.
'Lilo & Stitch' follows an adorable blue extraterrestrial creature who crash-lands in Hawaii and gets adopted by a young girl and her older sister.
Dean Fleischer Camp directed the remake, which is benefiting from generation-spanning appeal a short two decades after the original 2002 animated film.
Disney hasn't announced the details, including the creative team, plot details or release timeline, for the sequel.
'Lilo & Stitch' is one of Disney's more successful live-action remakes, joining the likes of 2019's 'The Lion King,' 2017's 'Beauty and the Beast' and 2019's 'Aladdin.'
However, not every Disney classic has proved worthy of the revival treatment, with this year's 'Snow White' and 2019's 'Dumbo' among its costly box office failures.
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