Live Action Dumbo Movie
 

Yes! There is going to be a live action Dumbo remake. :roll:

Pretty strange decision and there seemed to be a lot of upcoming live action Disney Films but i'm hoping this will lead to a live action Gargoyles movie.

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2015/...tegy/?mod=e2tw

The movie industry has officially turned into one big joke.

Disney is making a whole lot of live-action adaptations of their animated movies, it's seems a bit saturated and might loose it's interest real quick.

Someone wake me when we get Hall of Presidents: The Movie.

Oooh, or Big Thunder Mountain!

Maybe a haunted mansion movie that's a little more inspired than the previous one? Don't get me wrong, I love that one, but I can think of a lot of cool ideas for a HM movie.

Yeah, I've gotta wonder how long this trend will last once the novelty wears off. I don't have much interest in Cinderella, but I do get the appeal. But it mostly feels like a "look what we can do now!" kind of thing to me, anyway.

But I've been wrong before!

I think Beuty and the Beast is the one I'm. Ost interested in, especially since how much the Disney's first movie had so much inspiration from the Jean Cocteau movie, although there is already a adaptation of Cocteau's movie. It's still interesting to see how Disney will retackle the story.

Wut..? Um. So that either needs to be incredibly well done or will probably bomb very easily. Disney must be bored.

What they need to do is make more movies based on their rides. No, hear me out... picture this: the movie loosely based on the Small Wonder ride themes. But as a horror. :goof:

I don't like it when animals have to act. I feel like it's another form of abuse. Let the animals alone. They don't understand entertainment! They just want food.

Dont worry there wont be any animals. It will be all CG. How the hell you can cal it live action without something actually being real? Beats the hell out of me but Disney will do it.

Yeah, I figured CGI animals (really, how else would you make a real elephant calf fly? lol not to mention make the mother interact similarly as the cartoon) and I guess the usual real people. Maybe "live audience" is a better term.

"I thought I'd seen everything..."

Can't get with this...just can't do it.

But, why?

Who would watch this?

Hmmmmmm. Wonder if they'll have those racist crows.

I be done seen bout evr thing when I seen an elephant fly

A live action remake of "Dumbo" directed by total hack, Tim Burton, and written by Ehren Kruger, the writer of 3 of the Transformers movies, you say?

It's like they want this movie to be absolute horse sh!t. Then again all of these live action remakes of their own animated classics are horse sh!t and this is coming from someone who did not grow up with these classics and could care less about them. Just come up with something new and interesting!

Oh. :) Whew! I think they should just go all out CG in that case. I mean, might as well, right? *shrugs*

Wait your telling me a guy who had a hand in Mudflap and Skidz and many other racist jokes in Transformers will handle those crows. Oh god I now need to see this movie the comedy gold this trainwreck could provide will be amazing.

You're telling me those movies had a writer?

http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/2013/0...elieve-you.gif

And y'know, I used to like Tim Burton. Quite a lot. And I've still got a lot of fondness for his early work. Maybe it's nostalgia, maybe the shine just came off the apple, I dunno. But I still feel like his late '80s/early '90s work holds up pretty well. But lately... man. His whole New Disney Era is bringing out the absolute worst in him, creatively.

^I have to agree. One could say his version of Alice in Wonderland being a worldwide success is probably the reason why we're seeing so many live-action remakes of Classic Disney films.

So Depp is playing the mouse, right?

Can't say I like the idea, but I am a Tim Burton fan and Dumbo was always a rea fav of mine, so ill give it a watch.

And that mouse has a name buster! It's Timothy Q. Mouse:lol:

Tim Burton directing a live-action Dumbo? Well I be done seen about everything...

You saw The Nostalgia Critic's review of the Eddie Murphy movie too, huh? :P

I think the term your looking for is "live-action hybrid". :P

I seriously doubt that. :lol:

Did you see Big Eyes? That was pretty good.

Oh crap, I just realized how messed up the Pink Elephant song is going to be with Burton behind the camera.

Sounds kinda perfect, doesn't it? :P

Hippety hoppety! :D

Not just that song, but Burton doing a circus themed movie...

Wait a minute...Tim Burton? Who's known for extremely dark takes on everything he directs? I'm wondering how that'll go down with a movie like Dumbo, which is one of the most lighthearted things I've ever seen. And one of my favorite films of all time...hm. Not so sure how I feel about this. I'm intrigued - I'll leave it at that.

Not quite sure why, but my mind immediately went to Pokemon upon reading that. "Surf. The Movie."

(shrug) I might.

It was the 1940's. Times were different.

Oh damn. Didn't think about that. :tlol: Now I'm definitely intrigued.

It's probably a bit more then delightfully ignorant political incorrectness of the 40's, when the leader of the crows was named "Jim Crow".

Okay, but aside from the name, I wouldn't classify the depiction of the crows as "racist" when they were amongst the only characters in the movie who were sympathetic and helpful towards the main character. They were made out to be good guys.

I'm not denying they have some stereotyping, but I find it kind of humorous that people are always quick to brand that scene as racist, and COMPLETELY ignore that bit at the beginning with faceless dark men building the tent whilst singing: "We work all day, we work all night, we never learned to read or write . . . we don't know when we get our pay; and when we do, we throw our pay away." Buuuut, nah. Ignore that. Some crows with bad English are the ones you should bash. :roll:

Yo. The birds are doing minstrel show sh*t.

It's just as bad.

Like I said, it was 1941. Lots of stuff that would be called racist today was considered tongue-in-cheek & passable back then.

The crow characters are not racists. The people who made the characters are.

I understood what you meant. That's why I said "I wouldn't classify the depiction of the crows as 'racist.'"

The crows aren't racist; they're stereotypical.

^^ Exactly.

It's been a while since there has been news about this, but yesterday it was reported that Will Smith is in early talks to play a father of some children who befriend Dumbo.

http://ew.com/movies/2017/01/11/will...y-live-action/

Also, Tom Hanks has reportedly been offered to play a villain in the film. That would certainly be a departure from the characters he usually plays. However, he has another project that would potentially prevent him from starring in it.

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/new...-dumbo-villain

Eva Green has been cast as a trapeze artist.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hea...n-dumbo-984270

Danny Devito joined the film as a ringleader.

http://deadline.com/2017/03/danny-de...ey-1202039965/

Will Smith declined the role of the father with two children and Disney got Colin Farrell to play the character instead.

http://deadline.com/2017/03/colin-fa...to-1202051074/

Michael Keaton is now in talks to play the film's villain.

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/mi...on-1202022958/

Keaton confirmed on Good Morning America that he's playing the villain. This will mark the first time in 25 years that he will be working alongside Tim Burton and Danny DeVito since Batman Returns.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/spider-man...233557165.html

Disney has a release date for the film on March 29, 2019. Casting has officially been announced.

Plus, a brief synopsis has been released.

http://www.insidethemagic.net/2017/0...colin-farrell/

As someone who loves the original and counts it among one of my favorite movies ever, I am very unhappy this is a thing. That description of the movie sounds worse than I imagined. And considering Burton was directing another of these wretched Disney remakes I had low expectations already.