A brand new teaser for Disney’s live-action Lilo & Sew film features a nod to an iconic scene from The Lion King

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The most recent teaser trailer for Disney’s live-action Lilo & Sew film pays tribute to the studio’s beloved animated traditional, The Lion King.

The circle of life should make room for a brand new species as an lovable blue, goblin-like alien pays tribute to Disney’s The Lion King for the brand new Lilo & Sew teaser trailer. Whereas we’re nonetheless months away from Disney’s live-action Lilo & Sew film, the mouse-eared studio is blissful to bait followers with transient glimpses on the upcoming adaptation’s fundamental character. Right now’s Lilo & Sew teaser finds Sew being held excessive within the air on the seaside, a nod to the long-lasting scene from The Lion King when Rafiki presents a child Simba to animals of the Pleasure Lands. Trying carefully, you possibly can see Sew’s orange swimmies, a tool that retains inexperienced swimmers from drowning. I think Sew is adept on the doggie paddle, nevertheless it’s higher to be protected than sorry.

Disney’s live-action Lilo & Sew stars Maia Kealoha as Lilo in reimagining the studio’s 2002 animated traditional. Different gamers embody Zach Galifianakis, Billy Magnussen, Tia Carrere, Hannah Waddingham, Courtney B. Vance, Sydney Agudong, and Chris Sanders because the voice of Sew. The plot focuses on a younger, parentless lady who adopts a “dog” from the native pound, totally unaware that it’s supposedly a harmful scientific experiment that’s taken refuge on Earth and is now hiding from its creator and people who see it as a menace.

Dean Fleischer Camp (Marcel the Shell with Footwear On) directs Lilo & Sew from a script by Chris Kekaniokalani Shiny, based mostly on a earlier draft by Mike Van Wess. Disney introduced the studio’s live-action Lilo & Sew in February 2018, however footage of Sew bursting by the movie’s emblem debuted at 2024’s D23 convention. Lilo & Sew joins the studio’s lengthy checklist of live-action remakes after diversifications like Magnificence and the BeastThe Lion KingAladdinDumboMulan, and The Little Mermaid. Disney gained’t cease there, in fact. Reside-action variations of BambiPeter Pan, Tangled, and Moana are additionally within the works, with Dwayne Johnson reprising his function as Maui for Moana.

The timing for Disney’s new Lilo & Sew teaser trailer couldn’t be extra well timed because the Barry Jenkins-directed Lion King prequel, Mufasa: The Lion King, arrives in theaters on December 20, 2024. Are you enthusiastic about Lilo & Sew, or have you ever grown uninterested in Disney’s live-action remakes? Tell us within the feedback part beneath.

Concerning the Creator

Born and raised in New York, then immigrated to Canada, Steve Seigh has been a JoBlo.com editor, columnist, and critic since 2012. He began with Ink & Pixel, a column celebrating the magic and evolution of animation, earlier than launching the companion YouTube collection Animation Films Revisited. He is additionally the host of the Speaking Comics Podcast, a personality-driven audio present specializing in comedian books, movie, music, and extra. You will hardly ever catch him with out headphones on his head and pancakes on his breath.

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