Bad news! Gantu will NOT be in the Lilo $ Stitch remake.
Lilo & Stitch
He's a redundant antagonist anyway.
Gantu doesn't add much to the movie anyway.
He’s literally the driving factor behind both aliens and humans working together to save Lilo because he’s not as incompetent as Jumba and is too cold to be reasoned with. Did you morons even watch the movie?
he is too bloody expensive sir think of the rupees
my intuition is that these decisions are made for the most flippant and superficial reasons.
who even wanted a remake of this movie?
it's a low budget movie
it was made for Disney+ before they decided to give it a theatrical release
I'm shilling btw
Guessing they didn't want to spend so much on CG. Which is why Pleakley and Jumba will be live-action for majority of their appearances.
Breaking news, Lilo and Nani are no longer orphans because that would make audiences sad
Some asshole in a suit that could make some money off it
Disney execs trying to strip mine all their IPs for as many shekels as they can wring out of them.
What, did KMR say "no thanks"?
I'm genuinely curious if they leave in the part where it's implied Lilo thinks she caused her parents death
Then who's the antagonist??
generational trauma
They'll just edit the final act a bit with Jumba instead of Gantu
Every character has their own panic attack scene
Anon, they're shills. They're not here to make arguments in good faith.
Oh wow! A black coded character removed?? Um! Very problematic, Disney!!!!
Kek
he’s not as incompetent as Jumba
Jumba was never incompetent, he was just being hamstrung by the Rules of Engagement the council forced him to operate under. He managed to successfully capture Stitch after he escaped from Gantu.
9/11 for scalies
Reminder that Lilo & Stitch was a Disney+ movie that got a theatrical release because Disney knows it's gonna make a lot of money regardless of quality.
Its budget is only 100m, while Disney's real theatrical movies have budgets of 250-300m
I get you're joking, but between rumors that they've basically shoehorned Bubbles into Gantu's role and the fat ice cream man was racebent to be Hawaiian, this whole thing does feel weirdly racist. I'd argue intentional malice, even.
Why tho
because Disney knows it's gonna make a lot of money regardless of quality.
Disney THINKS it's going to make a lot of money, and there's a world of difference between what they assume and the actual reality.
Daily reminder that the only Disney live action film to have made any sort of profit since 2019 was Mufasa, and even that made less than half of Lion King's 2019 gross. We've just got off the back of Snow White being a cataclysmic bomb. We're long past the idea of these films being guaranteed moneymakers.
Removed Gatu, and thus the impetus for how the third act plays out how it does
Maybe Cobra a generic MiB guy instead of CPS, killing the emotional core of the conflict
Ice Cream guy is now a native, ruining the original joke and point it was making
Pleakly isn't going to crossdress anymore, not only ruining the absurdist joke of somehow getting away it, but also getting rid of something the social progressive types actually really liked and would've been easy optics points
No, seriously. Who the fuck is this thing for?
And why is it going to make a billion dollars anyway?
it's a Disney+ movie that got a theatrical release for some reason. It's got a low budget which is why Jumba and Pleakly's disguises turn them into regular humans, that way they don't have to waste money animating CGI monsters the entire movie
It is like those direct to DVD sequels
You say that like Moana 2 didn't make a billion dollars, despite being equally soulless and lazy.
Crazy how the missed the entire point of Lilo taking pictures of tourists
She was tired of them taking pics of her and treating her like an oddity so she pulled the same shit on them. It was funny and charming
Current pre-sales trackers for Thursday night point towards mid teens up to 20mil. Very good chance it ends up getting to 200mil over the 4 day weekend, given it has a budget of 100mil it'll likely be profitable by Sunday thanks to OS gross.
Jumba was never incompetent
makes a shitton of experiment capsules that get activated with water
drops them on a water planet
doesn't have a contingency in case any of them go rouge
live action
moana 2
Retard
The executives
That's not the point dumb dumb.
Mufasa, despite not really being a remake, did make a lot of money, proving the audience attendence is still there
And Lilo and Stitch has (sadly) been hyped up by the normalfag audiences of the world
Moana 2 isn't a live action movie. I fail to see how that is in any way a gotcha. If anything it shows how desperate mainstream audiences are for actual animated Disney movies that they'll even accept that garbage over Mufasa.
Pre-sales mean very little, especially with a movie so mired in controversy. Bad word of mouth can easily crater any sort of momentum said pre-sales have, which doesn't seem hard to achieve considering the baffling changes we know of already.
>doesn't have a contingency in case any of them go rouge
I am pretty sure they were intended to go rogue.
SeeAnd again, Mufasa made 700 million dollars, while it made less than the 2019 remake, it still made a lot and frankly more than it should.
I don't think they were intended to go rogue, I think they were intended to be something you could just drop on a planet and then let them go nuts.
Not that it I think it should really matter for this discussion, since they obviously weren't even written until after the first movie.
I just hope that Elvis has all of his songs and all of his comedy cameos in the live action like he did the original
Mufasa wasn't made to simply "make a lot of money". It was made to make MORE money than the original, to recapture 2019's record setting box office. The fact that not only did it fail to do that, but showed massive diminishing returns, is pretty damn bleak for Disney's Live Action output.
Reminder, this is the same IP that managed to make 2 billion dollars from the goddamn BROADWAY MUSICAL. If the fucking Lion King of all things can't even crack a billion anymore, it's time to pack things up. Nothing else in Disney's catalog can stand a chance comparatively.
I’m starting to see the direction Disney is going.
live action lion king
put trillions and billions of computerbux into digital effects, very mixed critical reception but made a lot of money
most other live action remakes since
put a lot of computerbux into digital effects
critical reception remains low, make slightly less money because the novelty has worn off
realize the paying audience doesn’t care about the cgi being good
lilo and stitch
use as few digital effects as possible, cut gantu, jumba and leaky disguises are just human actors, only pour money into making stitch look good
movie now has a significantly stronger bottom line with a guaranteed return because it’s a Disney remake
If this movie is stated to have a similar budget to other live action remakes, it’ll either be because of book cooking or because Hawaii charges an assload to film there.
Fuck this gay ass movie.
comparing live action remakes to animated sequels
retard
You're failing to account for one thing, and that's the shifting of preferences of the general audience. 2000/2010s era nostalgia is going to make waves, and we're already seeing that. Lion King, as good as it is, is the product of a different era for Disney, the fact what's basically a glorified direct to video movie made that much proved that. Lilo and Stitch already has depressingly more positive press than either Lion King remake movies ever did going in both critically and publically
Honestly the real test for this new nostalgia milking era won't come from Disney, but Dreamworks with the HTTYD remake, which was also is more postive than I would like, but if it makes bank (and it probably will) that will give Diseny the confidence they need to remake damn near everything from the 2000s and 2010s that holds any kind of relevance.
If you watch, or care even one little bit about, Disney live action remakes at all you are a third worlder- if not literally, than spiritually.
that will give Diseny the confidence they need to remake damn near everything from the 2000s and 2010s that holds any kind of relevance.
They were going to do that regardless. They have no need to pay writers or make any difficult cinematography decisions because it was all done in the original. All they have to do now is recreate the scenes with cgi. It’s guaranteed return, even if the production budget makes it seem less profitable. Remember that you can straight up lie about production costs and no one will catch you as long as it’s not egregious enough to launch an investigation.
we need paper plates for catering?
let’s “buy” 15,000 plates at $50 per plate from a company we own and then mark that as an expense
Soccer moms, ESL's, Normies that vaguely like Disney but will never watch cartoons because they think it's weird
Those people didn’t want it, but they’ll watch it. Those are two different things.