Lilo & Stitch
Upcoming film by Dean Fleischer Camp
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| April 3 2025 | New poster shown at CinemaCon's Disney panel featuring Stitch causing havoc across Disney's various studios and sub-divisions. |
| March 19 2025 | Disney released posters featuring Stitch interacting with iconic objects from other Disney live-action remakes like Snow White, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin. |
| March 14 2025 | Disney announced the trailer received 158 million views within 24 hours, becoming the company's second-most viewed live-action film trailer. |
| 2025 | Chris Sanders completed voice recordings for Stitch, doing five separate recording sessions of about four hours each. |
| March 12 2025 | Official trailer released on Chris Sanders' 63rd birthday, revealing several characters other than Stitch for the first time. |
| February 9 2025 | TV spot created for Super Bowl LIX, showing Stitch 'interrupting' the kickoff by running around Caesars Superdome like a football player. |
| February 3 2025 | Dan Romer was confirmed to be working on scoring the live-action Lilo & Stitch film remake. |
| December 18 2024 | Another crossover poster and teaser trailer released, showing Stitch being held up similar to baby Simba in The Lion King, with a trailer featuring Stitch in water wings. |
| November 27 2024 | New poster released featuring Stitch with a Kakamora from Moana in his mouth, referencing the original film's crossover marketing campaign. |
| November 25 2024 | First teaser trailer released, showing Stitch destroying a sandcastle on a beach modeled after the Disney production logo. |
| November 22 2024 | Disney published the first teaser poster featuring an extreme close-up of Stitch. |
| November 8 2024 | During D23 Brazil, Disney released a still from the film showing Stitch wearing a lei and standing on Lilo's bed. |
| October 2024 | The film was officially given a specific theatrical release date of May 23, 2025. |
| August 2024 | Disney shifted the film's release strategy from streaming to a summer 2025 theatrical release. |
| August 9 2024 | First look at the live-action Stitch design revealed at the D23 convention, receiving positive reactions from Screen Rant and Collider. |
| March 2024 | Principal photography for the film finally wrapped up. |
| February 2024 | Film production resumed after the SAG-AFTRA strike. |
| July 2023 | Filming was suspended due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. |
| June 2023 | Jason Scott Lee revealed he will have a cameo in the film as the manager of the luau where Nani and David work. |
| May 1 2023 | A portion of the Kalanianaole Highway was closed for film production, marking a significant point in the filming process. |
| April 2023 | Billy Magnussen was cast as the voice of Agent Pleakley and Sydney Agudong was cast as Nani Pelekai. |
| April 27 2023 | Kaipo Dudoit was quietly recast as David Kawena after previous actor Kahiau Machado was found to have used a racial slur. Machado posted an apology on Instagram. |
| April 17 2023 | First day of filming was initiated after the initial delay. |
| April 16 2023 | A fire broke out in a trailer at the film's base camp in Haleiwa, causing approximately $200,000 in damage to costumes. The Honolulu Police Department classified it as first-degree arson and opened an investigation. |
| March 2023 | Maia Kealoha was cast in the lead role as Lilo Pelekai. |
| March 13 2023 | Original planned start date for principal photography in Oahu, Hawaii, which was later delayed. |
| February 2023 | Zach Galifianakis joined the cast, later confirmed to be voicing Dr. Jumba Jookiba. |
| February 2023 | Chris Kekaniokalani Bright was fully confirmed as the film's screenwriter. |
| November 2022 | A casting call confirmed the film was initially planned for a direct-to-streaming Disney+ release. |
| November 22 2022 | Initial casting call for the Lilo & Stitch remake was tweeted by the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment. |
| September 2022 | Chris Sanders revealed in an interview that Disney had not yet approached him about reprising his role as the voice of Stitch in the remake. |
| July 14 2022 | Deadline Hollywood reported Dean Fleischer Camp was chosen to direct, with Chris Kekaniokalani Bright in talks to rewrite the script. |
| November 2020 | Variety and The Hollywood Reporter reported that Disney had not yet determined the release strategy for the Lilo & Stitch film, with uncertainty between theatrical and Disney+ distribution. |
| November 13 2020 | Jon M. Chu entered talks to direct the film, with Van Waes reportedly leaving the project and the studio seeking a new screenwriter. |
| October 24 2018 | Mike Van Waes revealed he began working on the remake's script. |
| October 3 2018 | Walt Disney Pictures announced the development of a live-action/computer-generated animation hybrid remake of Lilo & Stitch, with Mike Van Waes set to adapt the script. |
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