Little left for the live-action of “Lilo & Stitch” Reaching theaters and to the delight of Disney fans, the director of the new film pointed out the differences between the new production and the 2002 animation.
In an interview with the Portal Entertainment Weekly, Dean Fleischer Camp said the idea is to “try to make a movie that rhymes very well with what people remember the original, without just making an exact copy.”
The adaptation is based on the original animation that tells the story of Lilo, a lonely girl who lives with her older sister in Hawaii. Throughout the plot, she finds the alien Stitch, created to be a force of destruction, and soon they become friends.
For the new plot, which reaches the big screen on May 22, the director emphasizes the opportunity to “deepen relationships, especially the human characters of this movie”.
Disney has chosen rookie Maia Kealha to live Lilo. Stitch will be a computerized composition. Actress Sydney Agudong, born in Kaua’i, in Hawaii will play Nani, Lilo’s older sister.
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The relationship between sisters
“We managed to guide the movie a little more around Nani and Lilo’s relationship,” says Fleischer Camp, “but I hope people don’t realize how new our movie is, based on the original.”
In history, the six -year -old is taken from his sister for social services, so, according to the vehicle, the idea is that viewers believe in this relationship between them. “You can’t betray or disguise. You have to go deep, make these things fit and feel that we are portraying a real experience,” he explains.
Jumba and Pleakley
When Stitch escapes, the Galactic Federation sends two representatives to scour the earth and recover the “experiment 626”. The lucky duo in charge of the task is Jumba Jookiba and Agent Pleakley, played by Zach Galifianakis and Billy Magnussen.
In animation, Jumba and Pleakley maintain their alien forms, but comically try to dress as humans. As portrayed in the initial live-action trailer, the film will now show the aliens in computer graphics disguising the human “skins” like Galifianakis and Magnussen.
“Their mood walking through Hawaii dressed in these terrible disguises, where Pleakley still has an eye, it’s a little harder to believe in live-action,” he says. In the interview, the director also mentioned that there were still “other more boring limitations”, such as budgets, which contributed to the decision.
The character is so emblematic for the studio that he even won a date to call his own: June 26. The date is celebrated annually due to the original name of the character: “Experiment 626”, numbers that, in the American date model (where the month is written ahead of the day), would refer to June 26 (sixth month of the year).
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