2025’sLilo & Stitchhas proven to be a major hit, generating huge anticipation for its follow-up, so here is everything we know about the sequel,Lilo & Stitch 2. The 2025 movie, which was directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, was a live-action remake of Disney’s 2002 animated movie of the same name, which spawned a major multimedia franchise.
Lilo & Stitchreviewswere strong from both critics and audiences. In addition to earning a Fresh score of 71% from 205 different critics' reviews on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes,the 2025 movie earned a Verified Hot audience score of 93%from 10,000 verified ratings, which gave it an average score of 4.6 out of 5 on the Popcornmeter.
TheLilo & Stitchbox office has also performed extraordinarily well. It has considerably exceeded its reported budget of $100 million,having grossed $915.7 million worldwide as of the time of writing. This makes it the sixth highest-grossing Disney live-action remake of all time, proving how eager audiences have been for more Stitch in theaters.
The Latest Lilo & Stitch 2 News
The Filmmakers Saw Sequel Potential Early On
Ahead of the official confirmation ofLilo & Stitch 2,there had already been a considerable amount of chatter about the follow-upto thelive-actionLilo & Stitch.
In fact, Disney Entertainment co-chairman Alan Bergman told theWall Street Journalthat"it’s the kind of property that lends itself to more"as early as May 23, which was the day the movie debuted. Producer Jonathan Eirich expressed similar sentiments while speaking withThe Independentthat same day. Read his comments below:
I think it’s such a rich world that [original co-director] Chris Sanders and others have built out, which is exciting. You’ve got the space opera element, which is so fun. We sort of start the movie in that world. You have other characters - we do a quick little nod to Angel and Leroy in the movie that fans might catch, when Jumba is scrolling through the other experiments. So there are other things you could touch on.
I’m always just nervous that people love this one, so I just want this one out in the world first! Hopefully audiences love it, and if they tell us they do, then it would be exciting to explore more stories in this universe.
WhileDean Fleischer Camp expressed similar sentiments during that same weekend, during whichLilo & StitchbrokeTop Gun Maverick’s record to earn the highest-grossing Memorial Day weekend debut of all time at the domestic box office, not much more word about a potential sequel came as the movie continued to climb the charts.
Lilo & Stitch 2 Confirmation
The Sequel Is In The Works
As of June 19, 2025 (a date, 6/26, that aligns with Stitch’s original status as Experiment 626), the live-actionLilo & Stitch 2is officially in development.Walt Disney Studiosmade the announcement on their official X account, alongside a video of Stitch wreaking havoc on the studio lot.See their announcement postbelow:
No other details about the project have surfaced at the time of writing. Considering how quickly the movie has gone into development, it seems possible that Dean Fleischer Camp could still be involved in the follow-up. However, precedent shows that this is not a guarantee. For the four Disney live-action remakes with sequels or prequels,no original director has ever returned.
Previously, Kevin Lima replaced Stephen Herek for102 Dalmatians,James Bobin replaced Tim Burton forAlice Through the Looking Glass, Joachim Rønning replaced Robert Stromberg forMaleficent: Mistress of Evil, and Barry Jenkins replaced Jon Favreau forMufasa: The Lion King.
However,all of those live-action follow-up movies came out four years or more after the original project, so the delays in their creation may be partially responsible for the filmmaking teams behind them ultimately looking so different.
Lilo & Stitch 2’s Potential Story Details
There Are Multiple Avenues It Could Go Down
Currently,story details aboutLilo & Stitch 2are being kept tightly under wraps. However, in an interview published on the 2025 movie’s opening weekend, Dean Fleischer Camp spoke withHipertextualand hinted that “there are some Easter eggs and maybe we’ll see Gantu in a sequel.”
The director is referring to Captain Gantu, a character who was voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson and was the second-in-command to the Grand Councilwoman. AlthoughGantu was the antagonist of the original animated movie, he did not appear in the remake, which positioned Stitch’s creator Jumba as the villain of the story.
It is possible thatLilo & Stitch 2could be based on the stories of the original animated movie’s direct-to-video follow-upsLilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, (which follows Lilo and Jumba trying to save Stitch’s life when he begins behaving erratically) andStitch! The Movie(which follows Gantu returning to kidnap Jumba and find his other 625 experiments).
However, given the fact thatLilo & Stitchswitched antagonists, adapting either of these stories wouldn’t quite make sense.Both of them require Jumba to be allied with Stitch, Lilo, and their makeshift family. Given the fact that Jumba has no redemption arc in the 2025 remake, this prospect seems highly unlikely.
There is also no precedent for Disney having their live-action follow-ups be based on animated sequels. Although both the originalLion Kingand101 Dalmatianshad animated sequels,neitherMufasanor102 Dalmatiansdrew direct inspiration from those follow-ups.
Characters from the animated follow-ups to the original movie will still most likely return…
Ultimately,it seems more likely thatLilo & Stitch2will feature Gantu stepping in as the villain for an original sequel storywith CIA agent Cobra Bubbles and the original character Tūtū, Lilo’s neighbor, taking Jumba’s place in Lilo’s family.
However, characters from the animated follow-ups to the original movie will still most likely return. The biggestLilo & Stitchsequel Easter eggis one to which both Dean Fleischer Camp and Jonathan Eirich referred, which is thatJumba’s other experiments, Leroy and Angel, exist in the live-action universe.
Angel (Experiment 624), who is Stitch’s love interest, first appeared in the 2003 animated showLilo & Stitch: The Series, while Leroy (Experiment 629),a purely evil version of Stitch that Jumba is forced to create, was introduced in the 2006 Disney Channel movieLeroy & Stitch, which concluded the continuity of both the series and the original animated movies.
The character who made Jumba create Leroy was the villain Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel, who was introduced after the original animated movie and did not appear in the live-action remake.
Either character could very well have a natural place in a new original story, and Leroy’s return in particular could fit well with Jumba coming back as the main antagonist of the series, ashe may seek revenge using his greatest weapon.
Lilo & Stitch 2’s Cast Details
Many Characters Could Return
So far, no cast members of theLilo & Stitchcasthave been officially confirmed to return. However, given the swiftness of the sequel’s development, it is possible thatthe majority of them could return to reprise their original roles.
Hannah Waddingham
Grand Councilwoman
Because of their prominence in the overall franchise, it seems highly likely that the production will seek to have the actors playing Lilo, Stitch, Nani, Jumba, Pleakley, Cobra Bubbles, the Grand Councilwoman and David return. Additionally, while Tūtū is a new original character,she has become Lilo’s new legal guardian, so it would make sense to have Amy Hill return alongside them.
The only character who doesn’t have a natural place in the sequel is the movie’s other major original character, the social worker Mrs. Kekoa. Additionally,there may not even be room Tia CarrereifLilo & Stitch 2makes good on the promise of casting Gantu, Angel, and Leroy, or some combination of the three of them.
