Behold, Your New, Reside-Motion Sew

We’ve identified for just a few years now that Disney was cooking up a live-action remake of Lilo & Sew, and it’s at all times been a query of how they’d deal with our titular Experiment 626. Would he be CG or some hybrid between that and a puppet? Would he look good? The reply to that second query is…truly sort of sure?

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Throughout final night time’s D23 panel, Disney unveiled the primary have a look at Sew for the live-action remake. In CG, he undoubtedly seems to be like a one-to-one translation of the character, and it additionally helps that he’s voiced by his unique actor, Chris Sanders. Given how a lot of a nightmare Disney’s VFX-heavy motion pictures can generally be, it’s a strong effort, and it makes you marvel about how the opposite CG characters like Jumbaa and Pleakley are going to look each time we get a have a look at them.

Should you haven’t seen the unique 2005 film, Lilo & Sew targeted on a younger Hawaiian lady (performed in live-action by Maia Kealoha) nonetheless reeling from the loss of life of her dad and mom and the potential of being taken away from her youthful sister Nami (Sydney Agudong). Lilo needs for a pal and that manifests within the type of Sew, a lately created alien on the run from the area police. Considering that he’s a barely bizarre canine, Lilo adopts him and the pair go on adventures. The primary film was very cute and led to a franchise with a straight-to-DVD sequel, a by-product present with a catchy theme song, and a well-remembered web game. (And likewise just a few appearances throughout Kingdom Hearts video games.)

Should you like what you see, excellent news: the Lilo & Sew remake is formally hitting theaters someday in summer time 2025. Can’t wait to see what this model of Sew seems to be like in a whole film.

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