DUMBO - The live-action version

Disney is making a live-action Dumbo. I wish I were joking.

Disney is developing a live-action take on its 1941 animated classic Dumbo and has Transformers franchise writer Ehren Kruger penning the script.

Justin Springer, who worked on Tron: Legacy as well as Oblivion, is producing, as will Kruger.

The new take involves the adaptation of the original movie while adding a unique family story that parallels Dumbo’s story. Also, the studio believes that because of the current state of CG technology, live-action movies featuring a soaring pachyderm (or any animal for that matter) are viable.

I can’t wait for the pink elephants scene.

The crows will be better.

Jesus wept.

News like this always makes me reflexively check how my Disney stock is doing.

Kangaroo Jack is the last live action animal movie I can recall: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0257568/

Except Life of Pi… I think this movie is going to be like the former.

They should stop calling these movies live action. They’re animated movies with a few people in them.

Yep, I’m sure that 90%+ of the animal footage will be CG.

I would pay to see this movie:

No, you wouldn’t, because it would be a SyFy Original.

Umm I guess this is the only Dumbo thread?

Director and the casting for this has me wanting to go see it in the theater.

LOL, that quote should go on the movie poster.

The 5 year gap in any news and or excitement confused me.

So, which do you think looks better, CGI elephant or CGI blue Will Smith?

Elephant looks better than Will Smith.

You know, I can actually see Tim Burton doing a good job with Dumbo, assuming he starts with a decent script.

… Of course, that’s what I said back in the day when I heard he was working on Planet of the Apes …