While we learned the names of most of the cast for Tim Burton's new, live-action take on Dumbo when Disney sent a video of the director talking about the film starting shooting to last month's D23 event, there's someone else to add to the list: Alan Arkin.
Dumbo introduces Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell), a former circus star who finds his life turned upside down when he returns from the war. Circus owner Max Medici (Danny DeVito) enlists Holt to care for a newborn elephant whose oversized ears make him a laughingstock in an already struggling circus. But when Holt’s children (Nico Parker and Finley Hobbins) discover that Dumbo can fly, persuasive entrepreneur V.A. Vandevere (Michael Keaton) and an aerial artist named Colette Marchant (Eva Green) swoop in to make the peculiar pachyderm a star.
Arkin is aboard to be J. Griffin Remington, a Wall Street tycoon, who we assume will be a backer for Vandevere. His new gig in a weird coincidence given that we last saw him trying to rob a bank in Going In Style.
The new Dumbo is scheduled for 29 March, 2019.