Lilo & Stitch director Dean Fleischer Camp explained in a new interview why Captain Gantu, a popular character from the original 2002 animated film, didn’t appear in the 2025 live-action remake.
Services to share this page. EXCLUSIVE: After turning Disney’s Lilo & Stitch live-action pic into the first billion-dollar hit of 2025, director Dean Fleischer Camp has a new pitch in the market that ...
Twenty-three years ago, an adorable, blue, koala-like alien and his once lonely Hawaiian friend took the world by storm in Disney’s animated film “Lilo & Stitch.” And now, under the direction of ...
In Disney's new live-action Lilo & Stitch movie, the villainous Captain Gantu from the original animated film is nowhere to be found. Director Dean Fleischer Camp tells EW why they opted not to use ...
Director Dean Fleischer Camp and producer Jonathan Eirich tell EW that cutting the villainous Gantu deepened the storytelling. In Disney's new live-action Lilo & Stitch movie, the villainous Captain ...