Stitch chews on Disney's other properties in the new poster for the live-action Lilo & Stitch (2025)

Last Updated on April 5, 2025

Disney is having a ball poking fun at themselves using Stitch from the new live-action Lilo & Stitch adaptation. First, they released a teaser that was a parody of their famous Lion King scene with Stitch being held up Simba-style. Now, the House of Mouse is taking the lovable alien creature and flexing on some of their acquired properties in the new poster. This time, Stitch chews on a Pixar ball with some disheveled items from Aladdin, Star Wars, Marvel Studios, The Avengers and even 20th Century Fox in a wink-wink reference. The caption reads, “There’s one in every family.” The new adaptation is set to hit theaters onMay 23, 2025.

Disney’slive-actionLilo & StitchstarsMaia Kealohaas Lilo in reimagining the mouse-eared studio’s 2002 animated classic. Other players include Zach Galifianakis, Billy Magnussen, Tia Carrere, Courtney B. Vance, Sydney Agudong, and Chris Sanders as the voice of Stitch. The plot focuses on a young, parentless girl who adopts a “dog” from the local pound, utterly unaware that it’s supposedly a dangerous scientific experiment that’s taken refuge on Earth and is now hiding from its creator and those who see it as a menace. Disney’s live-actionLilo & Stitchwill be in theaters during the same Memorial Day window as Tom Cruise’s latest stunt spectacular,Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning.

Dean Fleischer Camp (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On) directsLilo & Stitchfrom a script by Chris Kekaniokalani Bright, based on a previous draft by Mike Van Wess. Disney announced the studio’s live-actionLilo & Stitchin February 2018, but footage of Stitch bursting through the film’s logo debuted at 2024’s D23 conference.Lilo & Stitchjoins the studio’s long list of live-action remakes after adaptations likeBeauty and the Beast,The Lion King,Aladdin,Dumbo,Mulan, andThe Little Mermaid. Disney won’t stop there, of course. A live-action version ofMoanais also currently in the works, withDwayne Johnsonreprising his role as Maui forMoana.

Their latest fare with Snow White didn’t make the splash that they were hoping. However, Lilo & Stitch director Dean Fleischer was also the mind behind Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, which was received incredibly well with an aggregate of 98% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes and 90% from users.

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