The giant alien and villain Captain Gantu isn’t in the new live-action remake of ‘Lilo & Stitch,’ and Disney fans are not happy.

In Disney's new live-action 'Lilo & Stitch' movie, the villainous Captain Gantu is nowhere to be found. But the filmmakers explain that the cut was central to the storytelling.

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 ...

Captain Gantu’s removal makes way for new villain in Lilo and Stitch According to Lilo and Stitch director Dean Fleischer Camp, cutting Captain Gantu meant Jumba could shine through as a bigger ...

Lilo & Stitch ’s director Dean Fleischer Camp recently revealed the reason behind excluding Captain Gantu from Disney’s live-action remake. Captain Gantu, the villain from the original 2002 ...

And so Gantu was a casualty of that, but one that I felt pretty confident about from a storytelling perspective”, he added. Lilo & Stitch 2025 features Maia Kealoha, Sydney Agudong, Zach ...

Gantu represented the original movie's conflict of obedience, law and order, and doing things "by the book." He was following orders, something every character (besides Lilo and Stitch) did in the ...

With Gantu out, Lilo & Stitch 's producer said it felt more "fertile from a story perspective" to make Jumba the big bad in Act 3, noting that his relationship with Stitch as a "delinquent father ...

In Disney's new live-action Lilo & Stitch movie, the chief antagonist from the original 2002 animated film, Captain Gantu, is nowhere to be found. Instead the climax has been revised to make Jumba ...