If many wondered if it was really necessary to make a live action remake of animated classics like The Lion King or The Little Mermaid, it is even more incomprehensible to understand why. Disney would like to do a live action remake of Lilo & Stitch, one of his less popular animated films that has been gaining followers as time has passed.
The film, which is already in developmentwill be directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, who this year has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Film for Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, and starring actor Zach Galifianakis, the first to join the cast, as confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter, who has not revealed which character he will play.
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However, The Wrap website has confirmed that Galifianakis is going to play Pleakley, one of two aliens who come down to Earth with a mission to find the escaped Experiment 626. At the moment there are no actresses to play Lilo and her older sister, but the studio has already begun an intense search.
This tape would mean the return of Galifianakis to big productions after having participated in 2018 in A Wrinkle in Time, also from Disney. Although he hasn’t stopped working in small productions, it’s clear that the most unforgettable role of his career is that of the disastrous Alan in the Hangover trilogy.
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What is Lilo & Stitch about?
For those who have never seen this Disney animated film, This takes us to Hawaii, where Lilo lives, a little girl, and her sister Nina, a young woman trying to support her family after the death of her parents. Although the life of the two sisters is not very calm, everything will be much more chaotic when Stitch appears.
This alien experiment designed to kill, escapes from his creator’s ship and ends up at the two sisters’ house after Lilo thinks he is a dog and tries to adopt him. To all this, two aliens are sent to find experiment 626 and kill him. Lilo & Stitch was first released in 2002.
