Lilo & Stitch director Dean Fleischer Camp has responded to the outcry from fans over one key omission from the upcoming remake.
The 2002 Disney animation is the latest film from the studio’s back catalogue to be given the live-action treatment, with the reimagined movie due to hit cinemas later this month.
While the original film centres around our titular heroine Lilo and her alien companion Stitch, fans will already know that the true hero of the piece is Pleakley, an extra-terrestrial agent tasked with tracking down “Experiment 626”.
Over the course of the film, Pleakley travels to Earth to try and bring Stitch back to his home planet, and adopts a variety of disguises so as not to be spotted by humans on his travels.
And folks… if you’re not already aware… they’re fabulous…
While Pleakley is still a character in the new version of Lilo & Stitch, his character has been given a few tweaks – including an absence of drag alter-egos.
In a recent TikTok, Dean responded to comments that were posted on the film’s trailer, and revealed he’s already had several messages about the changes to Pleakley’s disguises.
He explained: “I have had people message me, ‘why is Pleakley not wearing a dress?’. And I just want to say, ‘I tried’.”
“I tried,” he then added.
Dean even went as far as sharing proposed character art for how the dragged-up Pleakley would look in CGI form, but sadly, it wasn’t to be.
Lilo & Stitch will introduce child actor Maia Kealoha as Lilo, while Stitch’s existing voice Chris Sanders will reprise the role in the remake.
Hannah Waddingham, Billy Magnussen, Zach Galifianakis, and Courtney B. Vance have also lent their voice to characters in the new version of the film.
It is due to hit cinemas on Friday 23 May, just two months after another of Disney’s remakes, the ill-fated Snow White.
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