Nani Voice Actress Reveals Her Lilo & Stitch Live-Action Remake Wishes
While news on the project has gone quiet, original Lilo & Stitch star Tia Carrere is sharing her thoughts on what she'd like to see from the live-action remake of the film. Carrere starred in the animated movie as Nani Pelekai, the older sister to the titular young girl who struggles to raise the six-year-old Lilo following the death of their parents in a car crash. Lilo and Nani's life is turned upside down when the alien creature Stitch crash lands on Earth, with the two initially taking the destructive creature in as a pet before learning of a need to hide him from a mad scientist and Galactic Federation.
Alongside Carrere, the cast for Lilo & Stitch included Daveigh Chase as Lilo, co-writer/co-director Chris Sanders as Stitch, David Ogden Stiers, Kevin McDonald, Jason Scott Lee, Kevin Michael Richardson and Ving Rhames. Hitting theaters in Summer 2002, Lilo & Stitch was a smash hit, scoring rave reviews for its originality and departure from the traditional Disney format, and was a box office hit, grossing over $273 million against its $80 million budget. The film's success would spawn a franchise that included a sequel TV show and two spinoffs, Stitch! and Stitch and Ai, as well as an in-development live-action remake.
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While speaking with CinemaBlend for the original film's 20th anniversary, star Tia Carrere shared her thoughts on the in-development Lilo & Stitch live-action remake. The Nani voice actress revealed her wishes for the project, hoping to see a more authentic roster of performers on the film's soundtrack than seen in the original film. See what Carrere explained below:
«I wish I could have sung more songs… I wanna do a racking guitar song. There's so
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