Disney's FREAKIER FRIDAY and Live-Action LILO & STITCH Movies Get Summer 2025 Release Dates
Two movies that are in the works at Disney have been given release dates in the summer of 2025. The live-action adaptation of Lilo & Stitch will hit theatres on May 23, 2025, just in time to kick off the summer, while the sequel Freakier Friday is going to hit theatres on August 8, 2025.
Lilo & Stich moves onto the Memorial Day weekend where it joins Paramount’s next installment of Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible with Tom Cruise. Surely, both can share the wealth, with M:I geared toward male adults and the Disney pic toward families.
Newcomer Maia Kealoha plays Lilo in the live-action version of the Hawaii-set 2002 animated pic; the new take was originally developed for Disney+ before shifting to a theatrical release. The cast also includes Zach Galifianakis and Billy Magnussen. Dean Fleischer Camp (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On) directs the film, which follows the relationship between a lonely girl named Lilo, and Stitch, an alien engineered to be a force of destruction. Chris Kekaniokalani Bright wrote the script from a previous draft by Mike Van Waes.
As for Freakier Friday, Disney already had August 8th on hold. The date also sports Warner Bros’ Paul Thomas Anderson-directed untitled feature starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Again, both movies can share the marquee without conflict.
Nisha Ganatra is directing Freakier Friday off a script by Jordan Weiss. Chad Michael Murray will return to reprise his role as Anna’s original love interest, Jake. Original cast members Mark Harmon, Christina Vidal Michell, Haley Hudson, Lucille Soong, Stephen Tobolowsky and Rosalind Chao are back as well. The pic has already wrapped production.
via: Deadline