His star horse rider, Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell), has returned from the war minus a limb, a mischievous monkey is wreaking havoc with his personal effects, and his latest recruit, a female Asian elephant by the name of Jumbo, has just given birth to an unusually big-eared baby - dismissively nicknamed "Dumbo".īoth this film and the 1944 version of Dumbo were based on a novelty children's book by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl. It's here, while touring the nation's south, that a ramshackle circus lead by pint-sized ringmaster Max Medici (Danny DeVito) has fallen on hard times. In other words, it's prime material for the director of this week's new Dumbo, Tim Burton: a man whose own career has variously tangled with the Disney machine - from his notoriously being fired by the studio's animation department, to helping inaugurate their present remake cycle with the billion-dollar-grossing Alice in Wonderland (2010).īurton's live action, CGI-enhanced Dumbo expands upon the slender framework of the original, locating its events in the heady boom of post-World War I America - where the burgeoning possibilities of the emergent Jazz Age would attract two-bit hucksters and wild-eyed visionaries alike. Principle photography for Dumbo took place in the UK and entirely on a soundstage.
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