"Lilo & Stitch" Live-Action Drops Trailer

Disney has finally dropped the official trailer for the live-action “Lilo & Stitch,” releasing May 23.

The live-action remake chronicles “the bond formed between a lonely human girl named Lilo and a dog-like alien named Stitch, who is engineered to be a force of destruction.”

In the extended look at the reboot, a lonely Hawaiian girl named Lilo is longing for a best friend. After she sees a glowing comet blast across the night sky, she makes a wish and then finds herself face-to-face with Stitch, a dog-like alien experiment whose raison d’etre is creating destruction.

Like the original 2002 animated movie, “Lilo & Stitch” follows a young orphan who is being raised by her teenage sister, Nani. Lilo develops a close bond with Stitch (née Experiment 626) through the Hawaiian concept of “ohana,” which means family — and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.

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

“Lilo & Stitch” crashes into theaters 23 years after the first movie, which grossed $273 million at the global box office. 

“Lilo & Stitch” has inspired multiple spinoffs, including the direct-to-video sequels “Stitch: The Movie,” “Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch” and “Leroy and Stitch”. “Lilo & Stitch: The Series,” a TV show spinoff, ran on Disney Channel and ABC Kids from 2003 to 2006.

It’ll be the second Disney live-action remake of the year following “Snow White,” which stars Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot and opens in March. 

Disney classics like “The Lion King,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Aladdin,” “Mulan,” “Dumbo” and “The Little Mermaid” have also gotten the live-action treatment in recent years — to varying degrees of commercial success.