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 The cast of the live action "Dumbo," arriving in movie theaters
worldwide this week, had to act opposite an assortment of models
and stunt men and women while the elephant was being created by
computer-generated imagery (CGI).
"It is weird that you're making a movie with all these great
actors and the main character is not there," director Tim Burton
told Reuters Television.
"Dumbo," which stars Colin Farrell, Danny DeVito and Michael
Keaton, is the tale of an elephant born to a struggling circus
who is ridiculed for his huge ears, until he uses them to fly
and becomes the main attraction of the show.
Farrell, who plays the father of two children who adopt Dumbo,
said he never saw an elephant while making the film.
"There wasn't an elephant to be found. They did have models.
They had a beautiful huge model in luminous green of an elephant
that played Dumbo's mom, Jumbo, and then they had multiple,
multiple stand-ins for Dumbo," Farrell said.
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"They had a model that didn't move. They had a couple of actors...
dressed in green spandex onesies and they'd come in and do their
thing, and they had stilts on the front of their arms and their
movement was extraordinary and the character work was
extraordinary," Farrell added.
One of the stand-ins was Burton himself.
"You should see me get on all fours," Burton said. "Throwing my
trunk all over the place."
Farrell said he didn't get to see Dumbo until he watched the
finished film for the first time as a member of the audience.
"Dumbo falls down, and the straw goes awry and then the ears come
out and I'm seeing it for the first time. Beautiful, really lovely
to see. They did extraordinary work," he said.
(Reporting by Reuters Television; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
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