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The movie, a live-action remake of the 1941
animated Disney classic, is centered on a circus baby elephant
who is ridiculed for having huge ears and, whose mother, like in
the original, is forcibly removed.
"That is still very much the launching point for our story,"
actor Colin Farrell, who plays the father of two children who
adopt Dumbo, told reporters on Thursday at the London premiere
of the film.
"They both deal with topics and issues that children and
families and grown-ups face in the world every day - loss,
grief, guilt, shame, all those things. But at the same time,
it's done in the context of making it accessible to children,
and not too much to bear," Farrell added.
Danny DeVito, who plays circus owner Max Medici, warned that the
film was a tearjerker.
"You look at that baby (elephant) and it's just ... you melt.
When you see this movie, bring a Kleenex. But it's a good movie,
it's funny and happy," he said.
"Dumbo," directed by Tim Burton, arrives in movie theaters
worldwide starting next Wednesday.
(Reporting by Reuters Television; Editing by Peter Cooney)
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