“You’re looking at the ultimate outsider: Dumbo is an outsider. He’s a freakish character,” Burton’s long-time producer Derek Frey explained when we visited the set of the film back in September 2017.
This live-action re-imagining of Disney’s 1941 animated classic may be the sweetest film Tim Burton has ever made. It’s also the safest. If you prefer Burton’s big visionary swings into darkness ...