{"id":636974,"date":"2026-06-13T17:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T17:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/636974\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T17:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T17:40:14","slug":"chris-sanders-to-direct-lilo-stitch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/636974\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Sanders To Direct &#8220;Lilo &#038; Stitch 2&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/chris-sanders-to-direct-lilo-stitch-2.jpg\" data-caption=\"Disney\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/chris-sanders-to-direct-lilo-stitch-2.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"chris-sanders-to-direct-lilo-stitch-2\"\/><\/a>Disney<\/p>\n<p>Chris Sanders, who co-wrote and co-directed the original 2002 animated \u201cLilo &amp; Stitch\u201d film, will reportedly write and direct the sequel to last year\u2019s live-action remake.<\/p>\n<p>That remake made over $1 billion dollars at the global box office, becoming one of 2025\u2019s biggest hits.  Sanders voiced the character of Stitch in both the original animated and the live-action film.<\/p>\n<p>Disney has quickly greenlit a follow-up, and the sequel is already slated to begin shooting later this year.  Jonathan Eirich will produce.<\/p>\n<p>The remake followed the same story as the original about a lonely girl who befriends a blue puppy, one that turns out to be an escaped alien engineered to be a weapon of mass destruction. <\/p>\n<p>The sequel, however, will be a brand-new story and isn\u2019t expected to be related to the two direct-to-video animated sequels \u201cStitch! The Movie\u201d and \u201cStitch Has a Glitch\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders replaces Dean Fleischer Camp, who directed the remake, and Chris Kekaniokalani Bright and Mike Van Waes who penned it.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/lilo-and-stitch-2-to-be-directed-co-creator-chris-sanders-1236620450\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">THR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney Chris Sanders, who co-wrote and co-directed the original 2002 animated \u201cLilo &amp; Stitch\u201d film, will reportedly write&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-636974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}