Mar 8, 2017 While the world prepares for the arrival of Disney‘s live-action Beauty and the Beast next week, work is well underway on another updating of one of the studio’s animated classics. Deadline reports that director Tim Burton’s upcoming live-action Dumbo movie may be calling on a familiar face. Eva Green, who previously worked with Burton on both Dark Shadows and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, has entered talks to play one of three human leads in the feature. Dumbo, released in 1941, marked Disney’s fourth full-length animated feature and told the story of a young circus elephant who, mocked for his enormous ears, discovers that he can actually use them to fly. The new film, which is planned to blend CGI and live action, will feature a screenplay by Transformers scribe Ehren Kruger. Disney has been finding quite a bit of success lately with live-action takes on their classic films. Burton’s own Alice in Wonderland took in more than a billion at the international box office with the studio’s most recent live-action adaptation, Jon Favreau‘s The Jungle Book, having brought in more than $966 million at the worldwide box office. In addition to playing the title role in Miss Peregrine, Eva Green also headlined all three seasons of Showtime‘s acclaimed historical fantasy, Penny Dreadful. She can soon be seen headlining Roman Polanski’s latest, Based on a True Story. Read more at http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/822763-live-action-dumbo-movie
Mar 8, 2017 Wow so Burton is really doing it :blessed: I hope this is a return to form for him, Peculiar Children was sum basura.
Mar 8, 2017 Disney has fallen the f--- off. Instead of being original they have to go back and remake the movies they already made.
Mar 8, 2017 Not really. Their original animated features are still great and inventive, they just want to make a live action universe of their classics.
Mar 8, 2017 Well they been doing a piss poor job so far. And if they f--- up the lion king expect a blood bath.
