Disney will also make a live-action Dumbo
Disney’s rendering of all of your childhood memories into sobering, instantly aging CGI will next make you believe an elephant can fly, because elephants fly on computers now. The studio is now developing a “live-action” take on Dumbo, its classic animated tale of a baby pachyderm who becomes an outcast for his oversized ears, then seeks to overcome his feeling like a weirdo by hanging out with a mouse who’s obsessed with a magic feather. Much like its revisionist adaptations Alice In Wonderland and Maleficent—and soon enough Cinderella, The Jungle Book, and Beauty And The Beast—Disney’s new Dumbo will offer a new take, adding “a unique family story that parallels Dumbo’s story.” Having some new people around will also eat up any screen time that might otherwise be devoted to jive-talking crows.