Lilo & Stitch (2002) on Netflix

Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Lilo & Stitch (2002)

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• With only weeks of production left, the September 11 attacks forced the filmmakers to scrap a climax in which Stitch, Nani, Jumba and Pleakley hijack a Boeing 747 through downtown Honolulu; it was reworked to use Jumba's spacecraft flying through the mountains of Kauai.
• To secure a U certificate from the British Board of Film Classification, a scene of Lilo hiding in a clothes dryer was changed to a commode with a pizza-box door; that UK edit later became the standard version of the film everywhere, including Disney+.
• Chris Sanders pitched teasers in which Stitch invades other Disney films; four parody trailers nicknamed "Inter-stitch-als" were made, with Stitch crashing scenes from The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King.
• Sanders and DeBlois chose watercolor-painted backgrounds instead of Disney's usual gouache, reviving a technique largely abandoned by the mid-1940s; Sanders wanted the storybook look and art direction of Dumbo, so background artists had to be trained in the medium.
• The budget was too small for computer-generated imagery, so the film stayed hand-drawn; it was also too small for pockets, clothing designs and most shadows, so many scenes were set in shaded areas that saved shadows for pivotal moments.
• Daveigh Chase won the voice role of Lilo in the fall of 1998, beating 150 other candidates considered for the part.
• Cobra Bubbles was first envisioned as a nebbish with Jeff Goldblum in mind, but Goldblum declined and the character was reconceived as more intimidating; Sanders and DeBlois then cast Ving Rhames after recalling his performance in Pulp Fiction.