Chris Sanders
American filmmaker
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| 2025 | Preparing to play Stitch in the upcoming Lilo & Stitch film, currently in post-production |
| 2025 | Planned future release of a new 'How to Train Your Dragon' film. |
| 2024 | Set to direct The Wild Robot, continuing his evolution as a filmmaker. |
| October 2024 | Sanders confirmed he would be directing a sequel to The Wild Robot film. |
| September 2024 | The Wild Robot film was released to critical acclaim. |
| 2023 | Provided archive audio for Stitch in the short film Once Upon a Studio |
| September 2023 | Disney Speedstorm fully released with Chris Sanders voicing Stitch |
| September 2023 | Sanders filed for divorce from his wife Jessica Steele-Sanders, citing 'irreconcilable differences'. |
| September 28 2023 | Chris Sanders announced his return to DreamWorks Animation to write and direct an animated film adaptation of Peter Brown's book series The Wild Robot. |
| July 2023 | Chris Sanders' version of Stitch was added to Disney Speedstorm during a summer update |
| April 2023 | Disney Speedstorm entered early access, with Chris Sanders set to voice Stitch |
| April 2023 | It was confirmed that Sanders would reprise his role as Stitch in the live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch. |
| 2022 | Disney Dreamlight Valley entered early access |
| December 2022 | Chris Sanders' Stitch character was added to Disney Dreamlight Valley during a December update |
| September 2022 | In an interview, Sanders stated that Disney had not yet approached him about reprising the role of Stitch, though he remained open to returning. |
| 2020 | Directed The Call of the Wild. |
| 2020 | Contributed to the story of The Croods: A New Age animated film |
| 2020 | Reprised his role as Belt in the animated sequel The Croods: A New Age |
| February 2020 | Sanders released 'The Call of the Wild' film, which received mixed critical reception with a 63% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and grossed $107.6 million on a budget of $125–$150 million. |
| February 2020 | Speculation arose about Sanders potentially reprising his voice role of Stitch in the live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch. |
| 2019 | Chris Sanders directed 'How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World', the third installment in the animated dragon series. |
| October 2017 | Chris Sanders was announced as the director for a new film adaptation of Jack London's novel 'The Call of the Wild' for 20th Century Fox, marking his live-action and solo directorial debut. |
| September 2017 | The Croods sequel was revived, with Joel Crawford replacing Sanders and DeMicco as director. Sanders was credited for the story and reprised his role as Belt. |
| 2016 | Sanders and DeMicco's work on The Croods sequel was initially cancelled after three and a half years of development. |
| 2015 | Chris Sanders reused audio from Disney Infinity 2.0 to voice Stitch in Disney Infinity 3.0 video game |
| 2015 | Chris Sanders and his wife Jessica Steele-Sanders co-wrote and illustrated the novel 'Rescue Sirens: The Search for the Atavist'. |
| 2014 | Chris Sanders directed 'How to Train Your Dragon 2', a sequel in the popular animated dragon franchise. |
| 2014 | Sanders appeared as the Antarctic Penguin in Penguins of Madagascar |
| 2014 | Chris Sanders voiced Stitch in Disney Infinity 2.0 video game |
| 2013 | Chris Sanders voiced the character Belt in the animated film The Croods |
| 2013 | Chris Sanders voiced Stitch in Disney Magical World video game |
| March 22 2013 | The Croods was released, with Sanders sharing directing and writing credits with Kirk DeMicco. The film was a commercial success, grossing over $500 million. |
| 2011 | Chris Sanders voiced Stitch in Kinect: Disneyland Adventures video game |
| 2010 | Co-wrote and co-directed How to Train Your Dragon with Dean DeBlois. |
| 2010 | Chris Sanders voiced Stitch in the English version of Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep video game |
| March 26 2010 | How to Train Your Dragon was released, becoming a huge critical and commercial success, grossing nearly $500 million worldwide and receiving nominations for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score at the 83rd Academy Awards. |
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