Burton to do Live-Action/CGI Dumbo

I am no fan of Tim Burton, but it's hard to argue with success.

His reimagined live-action/CGI Alice in Wonderland generated over a billion dollars for Disney. Maleficent with Angelina Jolie brought in three quarters of a billion. So Disney gazed at its naval and said, how else can we rip off our classics? So, Tim Burton is working on the live action/CGI remake of Dumbo, which "will add a unique family story that parallels Dumbo's journey."

I saw it in theaters in the second re-release, 1959. I wonder if the re-make will have the drunken clowns; maybe they'll update it and do meth. (You know, our generation saw the Pink Elephants on Parade scene, Dumbo gets the DTs, and folks wonder why psychedelics held any attraction!) The clip below came right after Dumbo's drunken hallucination. In 1959, I thought it was a great song. And I still think it's great, and it was the perfect refreshing wake-up after the intense, and somewhat frightening for little kids, deleriums episode. Wonderfully illustrated, voiced by the Hall Johnson Choir (uncredited, IIRC). Gotta wonder how Tim Burton will re-do these guys.