Born with a disorder that enlarged his head and limbs, Joseph Merrick used his disfigurement to earn a living as a freak show ...

Heaton, 24, was slated to play main character Joseph Merrick, a severely disfigured man dubbed the "Elephant Man." The film was slated to premiere next year, Sky News reported.

With his new role in the remake of The Elephant Man, Pearson, who has neurofibromatosis, will become the first disabled actor to take on the role of Merrick on-screen. A number of big names have ...

Cooper's interest in "The Elephant Man" continued to grow. In 2012 he brought his interpretation to the highly-regarded Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts. And now he's on Broadway.

Even looking at The Elephant Man from a modern perspective 40 years later, it is no hard feat to see what makes this film special and how it has stood the test of time, even when compared to Lynch ...

The Asheville Film Society will screen The Elephant Man Tuesday, Nov. 4, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

“The Elephant Man” was Francis’s return to cinematography after a 20-year stint as a director, but this was Lynch’s first shot at the big time. His previous feature, the hallucinatory “Eraserhead” ...