“Marcel The Shell With Shoes On” director Dean Fleischer Camp has been selected to head up Disney’s live-action adaptation of its beloved 2002 family film “Lilo & Stitch.”
Camp will make his full live-action directorial debut (“Marcel” mixed elements of stop-motion animation and live-action) with the feature. This will also mark his first major studio film following A24’s “Marcel,” based on the viral video series starring co-writer Jenny Slate as an anthropomorphic shell. The film is already a hit at the specialty box office and expected to perform well when it expands to more theaters July 15.
“Lilo & Stitch” revolves around a lonely Hawaiian girl named Lilo who adopts Stitch, a “dog” that turns out to be a lovable but highly destructive extraterrestrial creature.