Disney is officially working on a live-action Lilo and Stitch 2 following the success of its first remake, which premiered last month.
The House of Mouse confirmed its plans to develop another movie in its popular Lilo and Stitch movie series with a video on Instagram. It’s a bit fluffier than your usual sequel confirmation, as it shows its blue alien mascot driving around a Walt Disney Studios before finding inspiration in the number two. No further details about Lilo and Stitch 2, including its plot, cast, or release date, have been revealed.
“Should’ve known he couldn’t keep a secret,” Disney says in its celebratory June 26 post. “A 626 day surprise: #LiloAndStitch 2 is now in development!”
The live-action Lilo and Stitch remake premiered May 23, 2025, and quickly became quite the box office success. Just before it crawled its way into theaters, Disney was already considering what sequels could look like. Disney Entertainment Co-Chairman Alan Bergman went as far as to say, “It feels like it’s going to work very well, and it’s the kind of property that lends itself to more,” at the time.
If anything, it’s a surprise it’s taken this long to see a green light for a live-action Lilo and Stitch 2. Just one week after its premiere, the 2025 remake had managed to pull in $610.8 million globally. That number has only increased to be just shy of $1 billion mark at $914,396,949 (via Box Office Mojo).
Warning! Spoilers for Lilo and Stitch (2025) follow:
Disney’s live-action Lilo and Stitch remake features a very different ending from the animated original film, but that doesn’t mean it can’t still set up a sequel. This time around, Lilo’s older sister Nani leaves Lilo (and Stitch) behind in Hawaii and instead travels out of state to study marine biology. An ending sequence does show that, thanks to some alien technology, the two may not be seperated for long.
Additionally, a late-movie sequence shows an alien computer screen that features other notable experiments that were prominently featured in Lilo and Stitch: The Series. These include Experiment 624 a.k.a. Angel, Experiment 625 a.k.a. Reuben, and Experiment 627. Each could play a major part in Lilo and Stitch 2, with the series itself providing plenty of material to pull from for not only one sequel but potentially many others as well. There’s also the original animated sequel, Lilo and Stitch 2: Stitch has a Glitch, which arrived as a direct-to-video installment in 2005.
We gave the 2025 live-action Lilo and Stitch remake an 8/10 in our review, but not everyone was so pleased with how it turned out. Some fans were quick to hop online and share their disatisfaction with it’s new ending for Nani and Lilo, with many feeling it opposes some of the original film’s most important themes. You can read more about our thoughts on Ohana, as well as other moments in the film, here.
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