![]() ![]() However, the calf accidentally reveals his ears in his debut performance in Joplin, Missouri, and the crowd laughs and mockingly calls the calf "Dumbo" while pelting him with peanuts and other objects. She gives birth to a calf with unusually large ears, and Medici orders Holt to hide them, fearing how the public might react to such a deformity. After being informed by Holt that he lost his arm in the Battle of the Argonne, Medici instead hires him as the caretaker for Mother Ella Jumbo, the circus' pregnant Asian elephant. The circus has run into financial troubles Medici reveals he was forced to sell his stable of horses after Holt's wife and co-performer, Annie, died from the Spanish flu outbreak. In 1919 Sarasota, Florida, equestrian performer and World War I amputee Holt Farrier returns after the war to his previous employer, the Medici Brothers' Circus, run by Max Medici. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised its ambition but criticized its lack of emotional depth. The film grossed $353 million worldwide against a $170 million budget. It was the first of five live-action adaptations of prior animated Disney films released in 2019, along with Aladdin, The Lion King, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, and Lady and the Tramp.ĭumbo premiered in Los Angeles on March 11, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on March 29, 2019. Most of the cast signed on for the feature in March 2017 and principal photography lasted from July to November 2017 in England. Plans for a live-action film adaptation of Dumbo were announced in 2014, and Burton was confirmed as director in March 2015. The story follows a family that works at a failing traveling circus as they encounter a baby elephant with extremely large ears who is capable of flying. The film stars Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva Green and Alan Arkin. The film is a live-action adaptation and reimagining of Walt Disney's 1941 animated film of the same name, which is based on the novel by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl. Dumbo is a 2019 American fantasy period adventure film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay written by Ehren Kruger. ![]()
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