{"id":732971,"date":"2026-06-12T23:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/732971\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T23:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:10:09","slug":"lilo-stitch-2-to-be-directed-by-chris-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/732971\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilo &#038; Stitch 2 to Be Directed by Chris Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOnce you\u2019re part of the ohana, you\u2019re part of it in animation and live-action.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/chris-sanders\/\" id=\"auto-tag_chris-sanders_1\" data-tag=\"chris-sanders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Sanders<\/a>, who co-created, co-wrote and co-directed the original Lilo &amp; Stitch animated movie, will now direct Disney\u2019s sequel to its live-action Lilo &amp; Stitch megahit.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Sanders, who also voiced the character of Stitch in both animated and live-action form, was already deeply involved with the feature as its screenwriter. The sequel is now on the wave to production, with shooting due to begin later this year.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Jonathan Eirich, who produced the initial live-action remake, is back as producer via Rideback. The company\u2019s Ryan Halprin is exec producing.  <br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Stitch centers on a lonely girl who befriends a blue puppy that turns out to be an escaped alien engineered to be a weapon of mass destruction. The original movie produced some memorable lines, such as \u201cOhana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind,\u201d and was followed by two direct-to-video sequels,\u00a0Stitch! The Movie\u00a0and\u00a0Stitch Has a Glitch,\u00a0as well as\u00a0Lilo &amp; Stitch: The Series.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Disney rebooted the title with the live-action feature that, thanks to families and Gen Zers who grew up on the original, powered to over $1 billion dollars at the box office, $423.7 million of that domestically.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The sequel will be a brand-new story.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The 2025 movie was directed by Dean Fleischer Camp (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On). Chris Kekaniokalani Bright and Mike Van Waes were the writers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tRideback\u2019s next feature is Best of the Best, a competition dance comedy that will debut on Netflix in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSanders is mighty name in the animation field. He co-wrote and co-directed the original animated movie with Dean DeBlois and the two later went to work together on the first How to Train Your Dragon. Sanders then co-wrote and co-directed\u00a0The Croods\u00a0with Kirk DeMicco and solo directed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/the-wild-robot\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-wild-robot_1\" data-tag=\"the-wild-robot\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Wild Robot<\/a>, DreamWorks Animation\u2019s 2024 adaption of the Chris Brown book that won nine Annie Awards and scored three Oscar nominations. He is developing a sequel, The Wild Robot Escapes.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The Stitch sequel will not be Sanders\u2019 live-action debut. That was made with the 2020 adaptation of The Call of the Wild, which starred Harrison Ford along with plenty of CGI animals, and likely a handy training ground for his new project.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>He is repped by WME and Lichter Grossman.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2201417888-H-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"730\" width=\"1296\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tChris Sanders<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAlberto E. Rodriguez\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once you\u2019re part of the ohana, you\u2019re part of it in animation and live-action.\u00a0Chris Sanders, who co-created, co-wrote&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,263703,75,33973,337,263704],"class_list":["post-732971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chris-sanders","tag-entertainment","tag-lilo-stitch","tag-movies","tag-the-wild-robot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}