Live-Action ‘Lilo & Stitch’ Trailer: Disney’s Wacky Blue Alien Invades the Real World

When you wish upon a shooting star, you might fair conclusion up with an lovable blue extraterrestrial animal. At slightest, that’s what happens in the to begin with full-length trailer for Disney‘s “Lilo & Stitch” remake.

In the amplified see at the live-action reboot, a forlorn Hawaiian young lady named Lilo is yearning for a best companion. After she sees a shining comet impact over the night sky, she makes a wish and at that point finds herself face-to-face with Fasten, a dog-like outsider test whose raison d’etre is making destruction.

Like the unique 2002 vivified film, “Lilo & Stitch” takes after a youthful vagrant who is being raised by her teenaged sister, Nani. Lilo creates a near bond with Fasten (née Test 626) through the Hawaiian concept of “ohana,” which implies family — and family implies no one gets cleared out behind or forgotten.

He is your obligation. Got it?” Nani says in the trailer, to which Lilo cheerfully answers, “We promise!”

Still, Fasten is immovable on wreaking destruction on the rich, tropical heaven. He blares at blameless drivers and chucks a CD (keep in mind those?) at a moving car, causing the vehicle to turn out on the street. Afterward in the film — fittingly scored to Elvis Presley’s “You’re the Demon in Disguise” and “Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride” — Fasten terrorizes an astonishingly developed sandcastle, chugs the fluid in a magma light and indiscriminately maneuvers a golf cart on the cruel roads of Hawaii.

“Stitch bad,” the crazed animal says thoughtfully. At slightest he’s self mindful. Lilo, who is amazingly smart for a child, consoles him: “Sometimes, family isn’t culminate. That doesn’t cruel they aren’t good.”

Dean Fleischer Camp (A24’s “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On”) is coordinating “Lilo & Stitch.” Sanders, who co-directed the unique 2002 film, is reprising his voice part of Fasten, whereas Maia Kealoha (as Lilo), Zach Galifianakis, Sydney Agudong, Billy Magnussen and Courtney B. Vance are joining the cast.

“Lilo & Stitch” crashes into theaters on May 23. It’ll be the moment Disney live-action change of the year taking after “Snow White,” which stars Rachel Zegler and Lady Gadot and opens in Walk. Disney classics like “The Lion King,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Aladdin,” “Mulan,” “Dumbo” and “The Small Mermaid” have moreover gotten the live-action treatment in later a long time — to shifting degrees of commercial victory.

Disney has shared the to begin with see at Lilo & Fasten. The energetically expected film, a live-action reimagining of Disney’s 2002 vivified classic, will open only in theaters across the nation on May 23, 2025.

Lilo & Fasten is the fiercely clever and touching story of a forlorn Hawaiian young lady and the outlaw outsider who makes a difference to patch her broken family. The film is coordinated by award-winning filmmaker Dignitary Fleischer Camp, from a screenplay by Chris Kekaniokalani Shinning and Mike Van Waes. Lilo & Fasten stars Sydney Elizebeth Agudong, Billy Magnussen, Tia Carrere, Hannah Waddingham, and Chris Sanders, with Courtney B. Vance and Zach Galifianakis, and presenting Maia Kealoha.

Lilo & Fasten is created by Jonathan Eirich and Dan Lin, with Tom Peitzman, Ryan Halprin, Louie Executive, and Thomas Schumacher serving as official makers. Not indeed a month prior, Polygon’s Petrana Radulovic called for the advertisement campaign of the live-action redo of Lilo & Fasten to appear us any characters other than Fasten. And nowadays, with Disney’s discharge of the to begin with full trailer I can unquestionably say: “No, no, halt, that was as well numerous live-action characters. What have you done to Jumba and Pleakley?”

This might sound like I’m being the pickiest individual lively, but a great parcel of why Petrana — and other fans of the enlivened classic on Polygon’s publication staff — were so interested to see more of the modern motion picture was to get a see at how all of its outsider characters other than Fasten would be changed over from the adorable, cartoony plans to a photorealistic fashion.