Lilo & Stitch helmer Dean Fleischer Camp reunites with Marcel producers for new supernatural romance pitch

Lilo & Stitch is a live-action remake of Disney's namesake animated film that was released on May 23, 2025. It met with mixed critical response but ended up grossing more than a billion at the box office. It became the first animation-live action hybrid film to gross the billion-dollar mark. Now, the film's director, Dean Fleischer Camp, is working on his next project.

He will be collaborating with the producer of his 2021 stop motion animation film, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, for a film in the supernatural romance genre.

Let us find out more details about his upcoming project.

Lilo & Stitch helmer Dean Fleischer Camp is working on his next

Lilo & Stitch director Dean Fleischer Camp is basking in the success of his recent release. Deadline has recently reported that Camp is collaborating with the producers of his earlier film Marcel the Shell with Shoes On.

Camp is writing and directing the film and will also co-produce it with Andrew Goldman, Paul Mezey, and Caroline Kaplan through the banner Present Company. The film will be in the live-action format and will be in the supernatural romance genre.

It will focus on two lovers in the backdrop of the Edwardian Age. However, their love is destined to fail because of a strange factor.

Camp's pitch has already found several potential buyers, given his impressive track record. He started his career back in 2016 with the conceptual college film called Fraud. Around that time, Camp had also directed a trilogy of short videos called Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, which became the basis of his later namesake film that he directed, co-produced, co-wrote and edited in 2021.

It met with positive reviews and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature category. Its success led Camp to get an offer to direct Disney's big-budget Lilo & Stitch, which is a live-action animation remake of their eponymous film that came out in 2002. The film had its world premiere at Los Angeles' El Capitan Theatre on May 17, 2025.

It was released theatrically on May 23 by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Unlike his previous film, the remake met with mixed critical response. Despite that, it minted $1.019 billion at the ticket window. It would be interesting to see how Camp's next film pans out.

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