Director Dean Fleischer Camp and producer Jonathan Eirich tell EW that cutting the villainous Gantu deepened the storytelling.

The loss of Captain Gantu isn’t just a bummer for fans so much as it recalibrates the whole moral thrust of Lilo & Stitch. Gantu and social worker Cobra Bubbles (played in the new film by Courtney B.

Many characters returned in some capacity for the live-action Lilo & Stitch remake, but the massive Captain Gantu was conspicuously absent.