Who Wants Free Tickets to the New Live-Action Dumbo Remake Tonight?
Test your knowledge of Disney’s beloved big-eared elephant
The famous lovable large-eared elephant returns in Dumbo, a remake of the original film, directed by Tim Burton. Starring Colin Farrell and Danny DeVito, the classic story, with new twists, hits theaters today. Photo courtesy of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Nearly 80 years after the original Disney animated classic Dumbo premiered, the beloved big-eared elephant is poised to take flight again in a live-action reboot opening nationwide Friday. The new Dumbo, directed by Tim Burton and starring Lucy DeVito, her father, Danny DeVito, Michael Keaton, and Colin Farrrell, brings more depth to the circus characters and expands the backstory of the one-of-a-kind elephant.
The remake has former soldier Holt Farrier (Farrell) returning to his job as a horse showman at the circus after World War I, feeling like an outcast. Struggling circus owner Max Medici (Danny DeVito) appoints Farrier and his children, Milly and Joe, to look after a newborn elephant, who also feels like an outcast because of his oversized ears. Ridiculed for those ample appendages, he soon discovers that what makes him different also makes him special: their size enables him to fly. Trouble ensues when a greedy entrepreneur and a trapeze artist team up to turn the endearing elephant into a star.
Dumbo is the first of three Disney live-action films to be released this year—the next is Aladdin, on May 24, then The Lion King, on July 19. The new computer-generated Dumbo is expected to rack up as much as $58 million at the domestic box office opening weekend and should go on to make much more. Burton’s 2010 live-action take on another Disney classic, Alice in Wonderland, took in more than $1 billion worldwide.
Want a chance to win tickets to Dumbo opening night? If you answer all of the questions in our trivia quiz correctly, you could be attending a 3-D showing Friday night at AMC Boston Common 19, 175 Tremont St., at 7 pm.
To enter, fill out and submit the form below.
We’ll notify the winner and announce the name on BU Today by 2 pm, so be sure to check back this afternoon. Good luck!
Watch the trailer for Dumbo here.
Senior Abby Freeman (COM) can be reached at anfree@bu.edu.
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