Disney’s Live-Action Stitch Will Fill You With Cute Aggression

Fans of Disney’s Lilo & Stitch know what to expect from a certain little blue alien genetic experiment: he’s a chaotic, mischievous troublemaker, but he can be taught; by the time the 2002 animated film ends, he’s learned lessons about family bonding and the joys of Elvis music from Lilo, the little girl who rescues him after his intergalactic jailbreak lands him in Hawaii. With the live-action remake coming next year, it seems likely the new version of Stitch will be cut from the same cloth—but somehow, he’s a zillion times cuter?

Check out our latest look at live-action Stitch—this time within the world of the film itself, rather than that earlier promo glimpse—but don’t say we didn’t warn you about the adorability overload!

cute and fluffy 🥹#LiloAndStitch arrives only in theaters May 23, 2025! pic.twitter.com/u7Jxx6Nrzl

— Walt Disney Studios (@DisneyStudios) November 8, 2024

Disney knows what it’s doing here; you don’t even have to imagine that plush recreations of “cute and fluffy” Stitch will soon be lining store shelves, if they haven’t already.

Stitch will be a CG creation so to call him “live-action” is somewhat misleading—but there’ll be actual humans in the cast this time, including Maia Kealoha as the six-year-old Lilo; Sydney Agudong as her teenage sister and legal guardian Nani; Kaipo Dudoit as the sisters’ surfer friend David; Tia Carrere (who voiced Nani in the animated film) as the kindly Mrs. Kekoa; and Courtney B. Vance as social worker Cobra Bubbles.

As for the non-humans, original Lilo & Stitch co-writer and co-director Chris Sanders (The Wild Robot) returns to voice Stitch; Zach Galafianakis plays Stitch’s mad-scientist creator, Dr. Jumba Jookiba, and Billy Magnussen is Agent Pleakley, an alien chasing after an escaped Stitch on Earth.

Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp (Marcel the Shell With Shoes On) and written by Chris Kekaniokalani Bright, Lilo & Stitch hits theaters May 23, 2025.

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