Dumbo
Screen Rant had the chance to visit the set of Disney ’s springy - actionDumbomovie , at Pinewood Studios outside of London , right smart back in September 2017 . send by Tim Burton , who helm Disney’sAlice in Wonderlandremake twelvemonth ago which formally kicked off their live - action remake furor , Dumbois an adaption of the 1941 animated classic motion picture but also an original story crafted by screenwriter Ehren Kruger .
asterisk Colin Farrell as Holt Farrier , Michael Keaton as V.A. Vandevere , Danny DeVito as Mex Medici , and Eva Green as Colette Marchant , the 2019 live - actionDumbomovie move the tarradiddle ’s setting from Florida around the time of World War II to the midwestern United States shortly after the end of World War I. In the movie , Medici hires Farrier - a veteran who lose his arm fighting in the war - to manage for Mrs. Jumbo ’s baby elephant , Dumbo . And upon hearing that Dumbo can fly , Vandevere produce the Medici Circus and , presumably , lay down Dumbo the leading act of his circus , Dreamland .
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We join approximately a twelve other amusement journalists in jibe out the set ofDumbomore than a year ago , about midway through the movie ’s ontogenesis . What we saw was quite impressive for the scale of the motion picture , specially since Burton is aiming to retell the Graeco-Roman story in a new , singular way . While Disney has seen enormous success with unbent adaptations likeCinderellaandBeauty and the Beast , they ’re also attend to take some chances but also hold back what made the originals particular .
Dumbo Creates A Real-Life Circus For The Big Screen
Dumbo is the whizz of Medici and Vandevere ’s circuses , but that does n’t mean Burton and Disney have disregarded everything else . Everything in the training tent , such as the swings , are in working condition , and Disney hired literal - lifetime trapeze artists to star in the movie as extras . Eva Green herself had been taking deterrent example with aerialist for about three months - as of the time of our define sojourn - to the right way play her character , Colette Marchant . ( Green was still training at that time . ) Colette ’s act in the genus Circus is called the Queen of the Heavens , and part of it is The Layer Cake . One of her performances includes four contortionist , who ’ve Disney hired from Mongolia .
Interestingly , of all the things on set that are original and were acquired specifically for the film are the vehicles , such as the Ford Model T. An iconic auto in American history that ’s regarded as the first vehicle to be low-cost for the middle class , the Ford Model Ts experience in Disney’sDumbomovie are real ; they were purchased and restore for the film and are in working stipulation . According to the producer , the huge majority ofDumbo ’s sets and core are practical , with the baby elephant himself accounting for thebulk ofDumbo ’s CGI . What ’s more , theDumbomovie had zero on - location shooting . All of it was frivol away on a soundstage at Pinewood .
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Costume interior designer Colleen Atwood went to great lengths to make sureDumbo ’s costume resemble the circuses from that prison term period , including visit in Florida and Wisconson , as well as researching circus in New York . She specifically want to know more about European audiences , since many melodic theme brought over from Europe were integrated into circuses in the late 19th and early twentieth centuries .
Expanding upon the whimsy that Burton’sDumbomovie is n’t a square remaking of Disney ’s animated classic , Atwood mentioned that the only real vista from the animated movie that was adapted into the live - action version was the color palette ( aside from the story , that is ) . This can already be seen inDumbo ’s trailersand photos . And while Atwood has worked with Burton before , she stated thatDumbois unlike anything they ’ve both done before … in many way . One of those ways , which is perhaps most interesting to Burton sports fan , is that it does n’t bear any mediaeval or Victorian elements - two thing that Burton is well known for get in his moving-picture show .
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Of naturally , whileDumbois inordinately exact to its time period of post - WWI , which includes the circus designs , the costumes ( many of which contain pass off colour and have been fag out out ) , and the color schema , Atwood cautions thatDumboisn’t meant to be a documentary - esque smell into the past times . Rather , Dumbois just about 90 per centum exact to its clip period . This is a fantasy movie , after all .
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While on bent , producers Justin Springer and Derek Frey shared some information regarding the developing of Disney ’s live - actionDumbomovie as well as unique details about its yield and history . Check them out below :
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