Dumbo (Live Action Remake)

Yup, they're remaking Dumbo as a live action movie, joining the ranks of Alice In Wonderland, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, The Jungle Book, and Beauty And The Beast.

Looks like this will be a Human-Focused Adaptation, based on how they're "adding a unique family story that parallels Dumbo's story" and the fact that it's being done by the writer of the Transformers.

edited 8th Jul '14 4:27:01 PM by Servbot

Technically he only fully wrote the last two movies of the transformers franchise (Dark of the Moon and Age of Extinction), the previous two were done by Roberto Orci mostly (and Revenge of the Fallen barely counts considering the Writer's Strike).

I don't have any high hopes for this.

I wonder who the crows will be played by.

Why? What makes them do this sort of thing?

A message to the person who came up with this idea: would you kindly find an elephant tusk and fuck yourself to death with it? In every orifice you can reach?

Did April Fools come late this year?

I do have to wonder how the planning process for this came about. Between the subject (let's do a live action remake of Dumbo), the choice of writer (let's have the writer of the Transformers movie franchise do Dumbo), and the planned changes (let's not focus on Dumbo), this sounds more like something The Onion would think up as a parody of Hollywood trends.

edited 8th Jul '14 5:44:58 PM by Servbot

We have reached the point where satire is obsolete.

As for this movie... Can we consider it an insult to all the talented people who worked on the original?

Honestly making this a Human-Focused Adaptation is a good thing, if it's going to be a live action Dumbo. Because otherwise, what the hell are they going to do about an elephant that can fly using it's big ears? Though maybe that's why they're using the writer from Transformers, he's used to writing for a story where the title character needs to be CGI heavy to work.

It makes me want to dig up Disney's corpse, revive it, instill it with the desire for flesh and sic it on the people currently running his company. Shit like this is why they ought to just stop doing live-action projects. They suck at them.

edited 8th Jul '14 6:47:26 PM by Mort08

The only thing I'd add is to dig up everybody else - Ward Kimball, Cliff Edwards, everyone who worked on that movie... Then we'd have an undead army of Disney employees.

And then Disney finally takes over the world via Conquest by Zombie Apocalypse.

Home On The Range live action version when?

No, they only want the successes. The way they're going right now, I'm expecting a Frozen remake sometime in the next 10 - 15 years.

Would that be before or after we get a live action Winnie the Pooh remake by Seth MacFarlane?

I still find that decision questionable though. There must be several other writers who have worked on CGI heavy movies who are better suited for this than Ehren Kruger. He mostly writes action, thriller, and horror movies like the Scream sequels and the American version of The Ring after all, and that doesn't exactly sound like the guy you'd hire for a character driven narrative like Dumbo.

Well, unless if they're planning a Genre Shift.

edited 9th Jul '14 8:03:10 AM by Servbot

I'm calling it: everybody makes fun of Dumbo for his big ears, so he gets a chainsaw and starts killing them off one by one.

That would be totally...

...nope, still fucking stupid.

But is it any stupider than the story for what we're getting?

No, but that doesn't make it better.

I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I had no idea Dumbo was still considered popular enough to warrant a remake. And another thing: if they want a story about humans, why the fuck did they pick a story where there are barely any humans involved?

Because executives are idiots.

Eh. Weird choice of movie to adapt, but I kinda wanna see how they'd pull it off.

I wanna see live action pink elephants on parade.

Unless the kid gets plastered as well, you won't.

A movie aimed at all publics in this day and age, showing a scene where a minor gets drunk.

Yeah, never gonna happen.

I suppose the next thing they'll do is a Bambi remake where the mom is abusive and the hunter has a sympathetic backstory. Because WICKED GEEKS' MONEH, that's why.

Hell, I'd prefer the rumored Rescue Rangers movie over this. At least that one has a marginal chance of not sucking.