Tim Burton to direct Disney's new Dumbo movie starring a mix of computer generated and live [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | March 10, 2015 | Staff

[C19fan]

Tim Burton is to direct Disney's live action remake of the 1941 classic Dumbo. The iconic cartoon will be remade as a live-action movie with computer generated characters playing the big-eared elephant and his family. To bring the movie into the 21st century, a family story will be added to reflect dumbo's journey.

[C19fan]

Tim Burton and Dumbo. What could go wrong??? I am expecting the elephants in Burton's Dumbo to look like the elephants from "Lord of the Rings".

[Michael.SF.]

I understand that Barnum and Bailey just laid off a bunch of elephants, maybe they could get a job on this movie, after all they work for peanuts.

[Steely Tom]

Dumbo flaps his ears to stop global warming.

[Sirius Lee]

I understand that Barnum and Bailey just laid off a bunch of elephants, maybe they could get a job on this movie

Yeah, but the problem is that now they're far, they're near, they're insincere.

[TexasCajun]

I hear Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus are laying off some talented actors that would be very interested in the Dumbo role.

[TexasCajun]

...beat me to it. :)

[Steely Tom]

Yeah, but the problem is that now they're far, they're near, they're insincere.

Those were Huffalumps.

[Sirius Lee]

Those were Huffalumps.

The "writers" over at HuffPo?

[Slyfox]

Tim Burton will have a difficult time recreating the beautiful scene with Dumbo and his mother and the song, “Baby Mine.”

[BenLurkin]

For Disney to hire Tim Burton for a family film is lunacy verging on criminally insane.

[Yo-Yo]

Oh, I don't know. Tim Burton did an OK job with this format in Alice in Wonderland.

[NormsRevenge]

Rosie has a new gig?

[Maceman]

Well, I guess we won't have the black crows in this version.

Too bad.

Maybe they'll have queer peacocks or something.

[ctdonath2]

Tim Burton “did OK” with Alice In Wonderland?

Dude, for one of many points - there’s a moat filled with blood and thousands of bobbing disembodied heads. Way to turn a children’s story into an adult’s nightmare (unless you’re with ISIS). No question it was well done for what it is, but we’re talking a brilliant-but-deranged director with a track record of turning classic G movies into horror films.

[Alex Murphy]

Tim Burton and Dumbo. What could go wrong???

On that very subject, I stumbled across this photo:

[Boogieman]

Haha, that’s great.

Who will he get to play Dumbo’s mom though, now that he broke up with Helena Bonham Carter?

[EveningStar]

ping

[JoeProBono]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_690961&feature=iv&src_vid=AQXVHITd1N4&v=nN5lIEcbXpM

[Borges]

Burton got his start working for Disney.

[Borges]

The two Alice books by Lewis Carroll are quite disturbing actually.