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‘Lilo & Stitch’ Director Explains Why One Character Isn’t In Live-Action Remake: “Just Didn’t Work”


With 'Lilo & Stitch's journey to live-action, at least one character didn't return from the original 2002 Disney animated film.

With Lilo & Stitch ‘s journey to live-action, at least one character didn’t return from the original 2002 Disney animated film. In Lilo & Stitch(2002), Kevin Michael Richardson voiced Captain Gantu, Stitch/Experiment 626’s biggest rival who will stop at nothing to apprehend the escaped creature. I think that bringing back so much of the original Ohana that made the first one special like Chris Sanders and Tia Carrere [who voiced Nani in the 2002 film] and consulting with a lot of the original animation team were just super important to us and lucky enough that they worked out,” added Camp.

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