According to Deadline, Disney and director Tim Burton’s upcoming live-action Dumbo movie is currently in negotiations to cast another Burton regular in Danny DeVito, who previously appeared in Batman Returns, Mars Attacks! and Big Fish.
DeVito would play Medici, who runs a small circus that gets taken over by an evil big top circus run by the film’s main villain, Vandemere.
The new film, which is planned to blend CGI and live action, will feature a screenplay by Transformers scribe Ehren Kruger.
Eva Green, who previously worked with Burton on both Dark Shadows and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, will play one of three human leads in the feature.