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Watch the first trail­er for Tim Burton’s live-action Dum­bo remake

13 Jun 2018

Words by Adam Woodward

Elephant's trunk and body emerging from dense foliage, dark and earthy tones.
Elephant's trunk and body emerging from dense foliage, dark and earthy tones.
There’s thrills, spills and pink pachy­derms in this ear­ly look at Disney’s lat­est live-action adventure.

You’ve got to hand it to Dis­ney – they know when they’re onto a good thing. Fol­low­ing the mas­sive box office suc­cess of Jon Favreau’s The Jun­gle Book the stu­dio are rework­ing anoth­er one of their clas­sic ani­mat­ed tales into a CG-boost­ed live-action adventure.

Now it’s the turn of Dum­bo, the fourth fea­ture-length ani­ma­tion pro­duced by Walt Dis­ney Ani­ma­tion Stu­dios way back in 1941. With Favreau hard at work on live-action ver­sions of The Lion King and a sec­ond Jun­gle Book film, Dis­ney have entrust­ed Tim Bur­ton with updat­ing the heart­warm­ing sto­ry of a new­born cir­cus ele­phant with over­sized ears who learns to rise above adversity.

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The direc­tor has pulled togeth­er an impres­sive cast, with Col­in Far­rell and Eva Green earn­ing top billing along­side a troupe of tal­ent­ed sup­port­ing play­ers. How­ev­er, Dumbo’s trusty side­kick and moral guide, Tim­o­thy Q Mouse, doesn’t appear to fea­ture this time around. And nor, thank­ful­ly, do the con­tro­ver­sial jive-talkin’ crows from the orig­i­nal (one of whom is lit­er­al­ly called ​‘Jim Crow’).

But look out for Michael Keaton wear­ing a sil­ly bad­die wig, Dan­ny DeVi­to as benign ring­mas­ter Max Medici, and the trip­py pink ele­phants, which we’re excit­ed to see what a film­mak­er with as vivid an imag­i­na­tion as Bur­ton makes of.

Dum­bo is released March, 2019. Watch the trail­er below and let us know your thoughts @LWLies

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