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Michael Keaton may play the bad guy in Disney’s live-action Dumbo film

Michael Keaton Dumbo rumours – will the Spider-Man: Homecoming star reunite with his Batman and Beetlejuice director?

Michael Keaton may be in line to play the villain in Tim Burton’s live-action version of Dumbo over at Disney. The news comes via the trade paper Variety who say that Keaton, current hot property following his Academy Award win for Birdman, his work on the stunning Spotlight, and the forthcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming, would fill the shoes of the bad guy and reunite him with Burton, who worked with him on the two Batman movies in the late 1980s. More on the Michael Keaton Dumbo news below.

Michael Keaton Dumbo

Ehren Kruger wrote the script for the new live-action film, based on the classic 1940s comedy from the Mouse House. The new film already has the likes of Eva Green (Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar ChildrenPenny Dreadful), Colin Farrell (Saving Mr. Banks, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) and Danny DeVito (Cheers, Big Fish) amongst its impressive cast.

The original film, released in 1942, followed a young circus elephant who is born with comically large ears and given the cruel nickname Dumbo. One day at a show, he is taunted by a group of kids, inciting his mother into a rage that gets her locked up. After Dumbo’s ears cause an accident that injures many of the other elephants, he is made to dress like a clown and perform dangerous stunts. Everything changes when Dumbo discovers that his enormous ears actually allow him to fly, and he astounds everyone at the circus with his new talent.

Keaton was last seen in the impressive The Founder and teamed with Burton on the likes of Batman, Batman returns, and of course Beetlejuice, a sequel for which has long been rumoured.

More on the Michael Keaton Dumbo casting news, and on the film itself as it comes in.

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