Disney Confirms Live-Action Lilo and Stitch 2 Movie in the Works

Disney is officially moving connected a live-action Lilo and Stitch 2 pursuing the occurrence of its archetypal remake, which premiered past month.

The House of Mouse confirmed its plans to make different movie successful its fashionable Lilo and Stitch movie bid with a video connected Instagram. It’s a spot fluffier than your accustomed sequel confirmation, arsenic it shows its bluish alien mascot driving astir a Walt Disney Studios earlier uncovering inspiration successful the fig two. No further details astir Lilo and Stitch 2, including its plot, cast, oregon merchandise date, person been revealed.

"Should’ve known helium couldn’t support a secret," Disney says successful its celebratory June 26 post. "A 626 time surprise: #LiloAndStitch 2 is present successful development!"

The live-action Lilo and Stitch remake premiered May 23, 2025, and rapidly became rather the container bureau success. Just earlier it crawled its mode into theaters, Disney was already considering what sequels could look like. Disney Entertainment Co-Chairman Alan Bergman went arsenic acold arsenic to say, “It feels similar it’s going to enactment precise well, and it’s the benignant of spot that lends itself to more,” astatine the time.

If anything, it’s a astonishment it’s taken this agelong to spot a greenish airy for a live-action Lilo and Stitch 2. Just 1 week aft its premiere, the 2025 remake had managed to propulsion successful $610.8 cardinal globally. That fig has lone accrued to beryllium conscionable shy of $1 cardinal people astatine $914,396,949 (via Box Office Mojo).

Warning! Spoilers for Lilo and Stitch (2025) follow:

Disney’s live-action Lilo and Stitch remake features a precise antithetic ending from the animated archetypal film, but that doesn’t mean it can’t inactive acceptable up a sequel. This clip around, Lilo's older sister Nani leaves Lilo (and Stitch) down successful Hawaii and alternatively travels retired of authorities to survey marine biology. An ending series does amusement that, acknowledgment to immoderate alien technology, the 2 whitethorn not beryllium seperated for long.

Additionally, a late-movie series shows an alien machine surface that features different notable experiments that were prominently featured successful Lilo and Stitch: The Series. These see Experiment 624 a.k.a. Angel, Experiment 625 a.k.a. Reuben, and Experiment 627. Each could play a large portion successful Lilo and Stitch 2, with the bid itself providing plentifulness of worldly to propulsion from for not lone 1 sequel but perchance galore others arsenic well. There's besides the archetypal animated sequel, Lilo and Stitch 2: Stitch has a Glitch, which arrived arsenic a direct-to-video installment successful 2005.

We gave the 2025 live-action Lilo and Stitch remake an 8/10 successful our review, but not everyone was truthful pleased with however it turned out. Some fans were speedy to hop online and stock their disatisfaction with it's caller ending for Nani and Lilo, with galore feeling it opposes immoderate of the archetypal film's astir important themes. You tin work much astir our thoughts connected Ohana, arsenic good arsenic different moments successful the film, here.

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