Disney really, really wants to remake all its old movies.
Now Dumbo, a remake of its 1941 film in live action, is in production.
Helmed by former Disney outcast and goth darkness macabre king Tim Burton, Dumbo tells the tale of an elephant who learns he doesn’t need a flying feather to fly. He’s encouraged by a little mouse, a drug-fuelled nightmare, and some blatant racism to fully believe that an elephant can fly.
And fly he will. Right to the top of the box office.
Or not. Who knows. We’re still a long way away from the March 2019 release date. In the meantime, Disney has announced that Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva Green, Nico Parker, and Finley Hobbins will be starring, thereby reuniting Keaton and DeVito with their Batman Returns (1992) director.
No word yet on whether the movie will be entirely in black and be given goth-inspired production design. Give me those curly fences, Burt.
