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Podcast: Coming This Summer
Episode: LIVE ACTION LILO AND STITCH LION KING PREQUEL MOVIE Announcement Discussions
Description: Disney’s live-action “Lilo & Stitch” movie is beginning to shape up with the casting of Zach Galifianakis. Galifianakis takes on an undisclosed role in the new movie, which is planned for release on Disney+. Dean Fleischer Camp — whose “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” is nominated for best animated feature at the upcoming 95th Academy Awards — is directing the adaptation, from a script by Chris Kekaniokalani Bright. The live-action movie follows the hit 2002 animated family film, which grossed $273 million at the global box office. Written and directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, “Lilo & Stitch” centers on 6-year-old Lilo and her teenage si...