Remember Dumbo? Of course you do – it’s a childhood classic.
We’re welling up thinking about the little elephant with the big ears who gets separated from his mum already. Loads. Please can we have some tissues?
Anyway, prepare for some exciting news: there’s a new, live-action Dumbo in the works for Disney, and only Tim Burton is directing it, reports the Wall Street Journal.
More news!
Disney president of production, Sean Bailey, has said that the new film will be a “big world” – which could mean we explore Dumbo’s world more broadly than the original 1941 cartoon. So loads more eli-mates to meet, then?
We’re guessing Dumbo will still be able to fly using his enormous ears, though. Or else it wouldn’t be Dumbo.
The film is predicted to be a combination of live actors and computer graphics, but details are thin on the ground at this stage.
Tim Burton directed Alice In Wonderland for Disney in 2010, though – so maybe the new Dumbo film will be along those lines?
Disney has a host of new versions of its classics in the works – Cinderella is out this Friday, Alice In Wonderland: Through The Looking Glass and The Jungle Book are out next year, and Beauty And The Beast is out in 2017, too.
How very exciting indeed.