Lilo & Stitch director Dean Fleischer Camp explained in a new interview why Captain Gantu, a popular character from the original 2002 animated film, didn’t appear in the 2025 live-action remake.

In Disney's new live-action Lilo & Stitch movie, the villainous Captain Gantu from the original animated film is nowhere to be found. Director Dean Fleischer Camp tells EW why they opted not to use ...

I’m sorry to be the one to break this news to people of DeviantArt, but Captain Gantu — the hulking, whaleshark-like alien voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson who serves at the command of the United ...

While almost all the characters from Disney's beloved animated classic Lilo & Stitch returned in some capacity for the live-action remake, the massive, antagonistic Captain Gantu was conspicuously ...

The latest of live-action Disney movie remakes is here with the release of the new Lilo & Stitch, and that means fans like myself are going to start talking about how the beloved animated version ...

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This article contains plot details for Lilo & Stitch. Experiment 626's arch-nemesis is no longer a threat. In Disney's new live-action Lilo & Stitch movie, the chief antagonist from the original 2002 ...