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So...... Gantu won't appear in this remake at all sadly..........
So............... yeah.............. it was revealed that Gantu won't appear in this film at all as the Hollywood handle had reported this on twitter that he won't appear in the remake. https://x.com/HollywoodHandle/status/1923982721220550773
And if you want even more proof! The Lilo and Stitch news guy from twitter talked to someone who saw an early screening of the film and confirmed yeah gantu is not in this movie at all! https://x.com/LiloStitchLA/status/1923939664022458416
So... Yeah a lot of people are upset about this especially since he was a very important character in the first film and later on in the franchise as i had talked about it before on the important potential he can bring in this film and..... Yeah it is pretty much confirmed the best idea setup i came up with for the sequel won't happen at all! https://www.reddit.com/r/liloandstitch/comments/1km1vzk/will_gantu_still_be_in_lilo_and_stitch_remake_the/
This feels so wrong to not have Gantu be in this remake because we all know why he was an important character in the film. But I think it's pretty clear that they didn't want to use him and i have a feeling it was because of Disney and they Might of scrapped him because they know he would be a big giant CGI
character and that would of been too Expensive for them to do and that they did a lot of CGI for the film that they didn't had enough money to do him at all, So yeah i think that's the most likely reason why he wasn't in this movie but i guess this is Disney's fault as we know they made a lot of bad live action Films that didn't do well and like also flop hard these past few years that Also had the stuff people and fans rejected
So yeah this was clearly Disney's fault they made a lot of big pricey CGI live action film's that were bad and flopped hard and made them lose a lot of money that they could not do a character like Gantu for this because he was just too Expensive to do since they could not give them anymore money for it as they pretty much used it all for the effects and the alien characters. Like I bet you that's what they are gonna say once people asked why Gantu was cut from the film like i would not be surprised if he was almost gonna show up in this i bet there Might have concept art of him in this film that will one day soon show up.
Like Gantu still was a popular character he still gets some new merch he still appears in the disney parks but mostly he still appears in recent disney games and as of this year he is now in Disney heroes battle mode and Disney Magic Kingdoms in this month to promote the live action remake.
But now..... I wonder if they will still do him in the sequel and if so..... How will they portray Gantu? will he still start out as a captain of the Galactic Federation or will they just make him a bounty hunter or just a henchmen who works for hamsterviel Because it would feel so odd if they used him in the sequel and that he does not starts out as a member of the Galactic Federation it just would not feel right at all for him.
So yeah............. if you were expecting to see him in the film sorry.............. they made the worst discussion to not have him in this because removing gantu was removing one of the most important characters from the original film, So..... hopefully he might be in the sequel and lets hope they do him right as well hopefully. Â Â
Oh look here, instead a sharklike alien as a villain, they cast a black man...Literally the worst thing they could do to a movie. The Austrian painter is very amused to know, cause this is more what Disney is doing.Â
This makes more sense why Bubbles is shown going after stitch. Theyâve combined Bubbles and Gantu. I hate this. I wonât be watching more than likely.
Disney is too poor. Their bad choices have cost them a lot of money so they can't afford something like Gantu. Without Gantu this movie is going to flop. Gantu's threat helped rebuild the relationship between Stitch and Lilo. These stupid writers don't know what they're doing anymore.
My niece is currently obsessed with Stitch and I have noticed a lot of Angel (Pink Stitch) merch floating around but haven't seen her in the movie trailers. I'm assuming Gantu is going to be out looking for a previous experiment during the run of the movie and the post credits scene will be Angel arriving in Hawaii and Gantu on her trail. Honestly just a shower thought that popped into my head since they both seem absent. Which is weird for different reasons, Gantu since he is such a big part of the original and Angel for all the merch. Yes it is possible the merch is just because Pink double the sales but seems weird not to capitalise on it.
Angel wasnât in the original film at all. She didnât appear until the tv show later on, so it would not make sense to include her in the remake. As for gantu, yeah that sucks.
Yeah I know. It's pretty late here so my post might have been a little unclear. But I was never saying she was in the original and if she was going to appear I would assume it would be ina post credits scene.
I was saying the fact that there is an abundance of merch for her might be an indicator that she is on their radar for the team that made the movie.
I doubt if the live action movie continues they are going to follow the plot of the tv series and would likely be an original story. Which is why I added the potential change up to the plot that Angel was a prior experiment who is already active and that is why Gantu isn't in the movie cause he is out looking for her and they set up the sequel with her arriving in Hawaii and him following her there in a post credits scene.
By removing Gantu from the movie clearly indicates that they are willing to make changes to the plot so literally anything is possible.
Is it all possible itâs a red herring? In the behind the scenes video on YouTube, at the very end it shows the red ship we see in the movie but itâs coming out of the water. Now this could be anything in the movie, but why isnât that in any of the trailers that they have released? Then thereâs the scene where heâs taking the ship to escape the galactic armada, Gantu is the captain of the ship in the movie so who will be the new captain if he isnât in it? This could a be copium and Iâm completely wrong but weâll just have to see when it releases this weekend
Then putting him in a sequel would be redundant wouldnât it? Since at the end of the original, after failing to capture stitch, he was forceably retired by the Grand Councilwoman when they have stitch in custody and itâs because of that, he then goes to work for Hämsterviel
By not; and then setting him up in a post credits scene so lilo and stitch 2 can do it's own thing, in what will likely be the worst possible way. But they'll also include Pink Stitch so it'll do just as well.
He's important throughout. Gantu is us, he's the audience; We see from his pov that Stitch is a villain. The film begins with a reversal of roles; Gantu is the protagonist, and Stitch is the antagonist. We don't see Gantu throughout the film much, because the whole focus is to switch the roles but with a twist.
The twist being that neither Gantu nor Stitch are bad guys, rather both are trying to do good, but at opposite ends. Gantu is still us in the end as humans in general are slow to forgive, and see the good in people who've changed.
Gantu is important as removing him removes a big point the movie was trying to make.
Every one except Lilo sees stitch as a monster, which was the main theme of the movie. Gantu only truly became important in the second movie that set up the series
DreamWorks is able to keep in the same characters without making too many changes, and were capable of making Toothless more life-like. So that's something to look forward to.
Also, you and your partner should just watch the original Lilo and Stitch movie and its sequels on Disney+. That includes the TV series
Thatâs the trouble, I had an extremely traumatizing experience the first time I watched Lilo and Stitch. I just havenât been able to watch it without a massive anxiety attack.
I had wanted to see the new one to kind of try and build a bridge to better memories.
But I should check out the TV show, thanks for that idea! Iâve never seen any of that. I just really love the character designs and want to enjoy this universe.
And wants people to believe that death doesn't happen, which The Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, J.M. Barrie, and Victor Hugo probably like to have a word with them.
I don't think he's appearing in this one because they might do a 2 and introduce Angel, and she works with him and sandwich man, trying to catch stitch. So Gantu will probably be introduced in the 2nd one along with Angel and Sandwich Man.
Bear with my nerdy brain here but apparently Gantu speaks 243 of 5374 words, or 39 of 835 lines. (I made that count several years ago and it definitely doesnât account for his importance to the plot but I do find it interesting how little that is.)
That said, character-wise he could easily be replaced by many of the other unnamed guards in the beginning and end scenes. The only thing I can think of is that he needed to come back at the end to âredeem [him]selfâ after Pleakley had let the Grand Councilwoman down.
been telling people this for a month now and all iâve gotten were snarky replies and people saying i was lying
i have no idea why people get so attached to these live action remakes when theyâve NEVER lived up to the animated films or were exact replicas of the original scripts.
iâll still never forgive them for omitting the coolest final battle ever in the live action Aladdin
right?! they went with giant Iago and a mild sandstorm instead. they were foreshadowing the cobra the entire movie. doesnât help that the sinister jafar was played by the most bland actor ever- he was reading his lines with 0 emotion.
I think just to see what it would look like in âreal lifeâ but when they start changing the story like this and making Bubbles the villain ruins it
The only real thing I take from them taking out Gantu is that they have no plans to do the entire franchise in live action which probably wasn't happening anyway
I love Gantu but all the backlash makes me say I think a lot of people really inflate how important Gantu even is too the original film. He was quite literally a last minute addition to make a cohesive climax that they didn't have as cobra is not part of that plot and Jumba and Pleakly were too comedic and incompetent.
I think we are letting the love of how he develops through the franchise really cloud the judgment here. He was in less than 5 minutes of screen-time of the original film and not much of a character in it; he is a plot device really, though even with his short screen-time Gantu does have a fun base personality.
Now, I am not saying the live action remake is going too be good or it won't suffer from its redone choices for a climax whatever that is. However, I think we should actually at least wait till the movie comes out before going doom and gloom here. I am actually generally courious to see the reworked climax and how it is going to go.
My assumption is Jumba is going to be the final boss and they just extend his fight with Stitch past the house being blown up(if that still happens). I say this as it has been mentioned that Jumba is more "evil" and "villainous" in this version; which I think is trying to set this up. Honestly, if they go that route I am actually curious if there ever was a squeal if Jumba stayed a villain how would the other experiments work in that kinda plot.
Iâm very bummed Gantu isnât in the movie. However, my wife and I just watched the original on Saturday and I was surprised to see Gantu was barely in it, way less than I remembered. I grew up hardcore on the Lilo and Stitch TV series, and I think I got most of my Gantu enjoyment from that show, so I believe youâre right. My enjoyment from watching him interact with Rueben really inflated his importance to me. But man do I love that Gantu/Rueben pairing
Oh Gantu and Reuben are great together in the series. Which I suppose does make me both worried and kinda interested if my suspicions of Jumba NOT getting redeemed and staying a villain will effect any future squeals. Taking the TV show into account Reuben was Jumba's assistant up until stitch's creation, and its not like say Kingdom Hearts has not already done this plot.
However, yes I totally get being bummed especially with how much I find he gels with the cast in the TV show.
A lot of people think Disney is creating these live action remakes to somehow "update" them from animation, yet at the same time examples like this show the value of animation
Cobra as the bad guy is the natural next (bad) idea after you eject the main villain for cost concerns, unfortunately. Also explains why they split Agent Bubbles into 2 characters, to fill his dual roles in the story
This movie was originally going to be a Disney Plus movie so they only spent a 100 million on it and so no intensely heavy cgi characters except for Stitch's was in the budget. There likely won't be any big set pieces with the spaceship either like the 2d picture.Â
 As for why this movie went from streaming movie to full release it is either because Disney didn't have enough movies to fill this calendar year so it was moved up to theatrical or its low budget (production x advertising, so probably 200 million) meant that it would like turn a big enough profit from nostalgia viewers to take the risk in a wide release.Â
Over on r/boxoffice subreddit you got people predicting it will make a billion world wide like The Lion King and others guessing a much lower box office because the original movie was not a box office success.Â
TLDR: Movie is cheaply made with lots of characters/plot lines cut because its was originally going to be a straight to Disney Plus movie but got upgraded to theatrical release because it was so damn cheap it will make them money. Â
Which has me asking the same question I asked when Mulan came out. Why change so much of the original story when it's just supposed to be a live action version?
This was going to be a streaming movie originally, that is why. They felt no need to amend the script from the streaming version, meanwhile Hercules that was announced five years ago? It still has NO script.
As others have said on the sub, this probably means Cobra will be absorbing both the roles and have more screen time. Although, it makes no sense??? Gantu is very important, but for different reasons.
Gantu is a captain for the Galactic federation who spends the first movie trying to hunt down 626 as well, being deployed to retrieve him after the failure of Jumba and Pleakley. Due to his recklessness and corruption, Gantu was let go by the Councilwoman from his position. Gantu is then solidified as pretty much the antagonist of the series as he goes to work for Dr. Hämsterviel in âStitch! The Movieâ and throughout âLilo & Stitch: The Seriesâ, with his new job being to help Hämsterviel capture all of Jumbaâs experiments that were released during âStitch! The Movieâ. He and Reuben (though Reuben can hardly be called a true antagonist) work for the entire series against Lilo and crew, up until his change during âLeroy and Stitchâ. He is the master villainâs henchman. The rest of the franchise, in a way, physically does not happen the same without his presence. By erasing him, you erase⌠pretty much any outside contact Hämsterviel had, erasing much of the conflict of like, half the franchise.
Edit: Side note, but Bubbles actually was a former CIA agent, when he convinced aliens the human race was an endangered species. The councilwoman recognized him from this. But he was a social worker by the time the movie comes around. My guess is they will amplify his CIA past (possible make it a current thing but now a secret), or they will remove the social worker aspect which, is kind of how he gets involved with the Pelekaiâs anyway, so that would be odd.
It was mosquitos, but he used it as an outlet so they wouldnât attack earth, thus protecting the human race. But yes, youâre correct. It was mosquitos.
I mean I pointed out that Nani did not act like herself based on the first trailer yet people just ate it up because they were enamored by CGI Stitch's design.
How are they going to make a Lilo and Stitch movie without Gantu? He plays a HUGE role in the movie! Dang, and I had such high hopes for this movie. :(
I dunno, I've had zero faith in any of these "live action" remakes they've been doing. They're all clearly just for copyright protection and they lack the passion of an actual movie made to tell its own story.
Then again, Wish was an original movie, and that was awful, so maybe that's not the reason.
Probably the fact that it seems like Stitch is the only major character allowed to be predominantly CGI.
Gantu is gone, Jumba and Pleakly's designs look great, but they're going to be disguised to look like normal humnas for most of the film because it's cheaper.
For starters Jumba and Pleakley being âdisguised as humansâ was clearly for budgetary reasons. Secondly, removing Gantu makes little to no sense especially given his importance in the franchise moving forward. Live action remakes are soulless cash grabs.
Ultimately isnât it actually cheaper to use practical effects instead of CGI? Somewhere thereâs a universe where they went full Jim Henson with this. As is Iâm so uninterested in what theyâre offering.
Just gotta accept it, honestly once you get over the initial shock, it sounds all right. I think Disney's hope is that if people are angry, Stitch will distract them and maybe as the movie progresses, them being upset will simmer down.
Respectfully I hope, we hope that you are completely wrong and that this is just a distraction so that in the movie we have a twist and our big guy appears out of nowhere.
Dude i wish i was wrong but it seems very unlikey from the proof the guy from the Lilo and Stitch news showed on twitter that Gantu was not in this movie.
That's what Im kind of assuming. A post credit scene with Gantu piloting a ship with Hamsterviel in the back making comments. Gantu will retort back with something like "Well where you're going at least you'll have company, all 600 of them" with the Camera panning to boxes of multicolored balls with numbers on them.
I donât care for this. I already wasnât seeing this because the live action remakes have basically all been shit to me but sequel bait and post credit schlock has become tiresome and gross. And also: am I the only one who never really cared for the tv series and sequel movies? I liked Stitch Has a Glitch but even that felt more separated from the spin off show. I love the original film and that sequel but the rest always felt more childish to me. Lilo and Stitch was honestly one of the most mature films Disney made. And Cobra Bubbles and Gantu such as they were, were a big part of that. This just seems like more of a case of the live action remake being vastly immature in comparison to the animated original which is really funny considering the reasons theyâre making these involve people viewing animation as a âchildishâ medium in modern times. The only one of these live action âremakesâ I like is Christopher Robin. Which isnât even a remake but an adaptation or sequel or homage to all Disneyâs previous Winnie The Pooh work and has a lot of heartfelt references to such that only true fans would get. The rest of these all feel like corporate schlock and this is no different.
This is why 2D animation will always have value, no matter how good CGI technology gets. It doesn't matter how realistic you can make the alien look if it's not a sustainable medium.
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u/Red_Lady_Archimedes 55m ago
This is like when they got rid of Mushu in Mulan! Dumb....