Lilo and Stitch

Pleakley lives!

The film has been in development for several years.

Jon M. Chu will direct.

Lilo and her cute alien pal are getting the Disney live-action treatment next.

The events of September 11, 2001 changed a lot of things. Airline security got tighter, the War on Terror became a regular national news item, and, overall, the outside seemed a little less safe than it had the day before. The repercussions of 9/11 were also felt as far as Hollywood, with the industry’s output of films based on or around themes of violence, terrorism, and war taking on a more serious, sinister bent. “Post-9/11 horror” and “post-9/11 action” became units students study in film class. A lot of films already in production went through slight alterations: the World Trade Center towers were digitally erased from New York City skyline scenes in movies released after the attacks, and entire scenes featuring the towers were cut. Hawaii is about the furthest you can get from New York and still be in the U.S., but even so, there’s a whole scene in Disney’s Lilo & Stitch that was altered so that audiences watching the film so soon after 9/11 wouldn’t be disturbed.

Imagine this -- you record an airing of 'Lilo and Stitch' because your kids love that movie and want to watch it all the time. Now imagine that while your children are watching what you prerecorded, the screen goes fuzzy and produces a scene from a porn flick instead. Traumatizing, right? Well, this is exactly what happened to one family in Fairview, NC.