Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterCrazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu is in talks to direct Disney’s Live-action adaptation of its hit 2002 animated movie Lilo & Stitch Deadline has confirmed.Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich of Rideback are producing.
Rideback’s Ryan Halprin is executive producing.Mike Van Waes wrote the current draft for the project though a search for a new writer to give that draft a polish is currently under way.
Unknown at this time if the film will be theatrical or on Disney Plus.The story told of the friendship formed between a lonely human girl named Lilo and an alien named Stitch, who is engineered to be a force of destruction.
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