“I felt like some of her precociousness and her maturation over the course of the film really only made sense for a kid that was actually that young,” director Dean Fleischer Camp says.

“Lilo & Stitch,” Disney’s latest live-action remake, is crash-landing in theaters this weekend.

Disney and the filmmakers behind the live-action redo recruited one of the original's writers and directors, Chris Sanders, to reprise his role from the traditionally animated movie as the voice of S...