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The upcoming 2024 live-action adaptation of Lilo & Stitch, a cult favorite animated Disney movie from 2002, has been leading to a lot of raised eyebrows — and outright complaints — from Disney’s audiences. The biggest controversies have come from the casting of two light-skinned Hawaiian actors for dark-skinned character roles, and from one aforementioned actor’s racist posts on social media.
The actor, who was meant to play the love interest of Lilo’s older sister Nani, has since been recast. However, now another bit of news has been released about the film that has caused Disney audiences to do some frantic double-takes!
Sydney Elizabeth Adugong is playing Nani opposite newcomer Maia Kealoha as Lilo (and Chris Sanders, back in his Stitch role) in the new version of the Lilo & Stitch Disney film that is being directed by Dean Fleischer Camp.
An image that allegedly portrays the new CGI version of Stitch (the blue alien and Elvis Presley fan who will be starring in the new remake of the 2002 film) has been met with shockingly-negative reactions from Disney fans. Take a look at the offending image, shown below!
Kahiau Machado was meant to play David Kawena, but the role has since been recast in the new Lilo & Stitch movie.
Needless to say, the image shown below has definitely alarmed Disney movie fans. Stitch does indeed look like a blue alien, but aside from that, this CGI version of Stitch doesn’t bear much resemblance to the Stitch from the 2002 film.
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Fortunately (in the eyes of many Disney fans), this image’s origins have come to light and the “leaked” picture is not actually a real depiction of Stitch from the upcoming remake! Instead, this is an image of Lilo and Stitch created using AI technology.
Artificial intelligence is capable of amazing feats, as we’ve seen lately when it comes to Disney princesses and Disney villains, but this version of Stitch was clearly not a positive end result in the eyes of many Lilo & Stitch fans!
Did your jaw drop when you saw this picture? Do you think that Disney will, at the very least, take some cues from audience members’ responses and use that observational data to help them create a CGI version of Stitch that audiences will actually like going forward?
