This is gonna be good.
According to Deadline, Guillermo Del Toro will be co-directing a stop-motion Pinocchio film for Netflix. This will be his first feature-length film since the Oscar winning The Shape of Water (2017). And, naturally, it’s gonna have those Del Toro dark touches. Specifically, he’s taking inspiration from “Gris Grimly’s original designs drawn from Carlo Collodi’s 1883 novel, the Adventures of Pinocchio.”
Per Deadline:
Production will begin this fall on a version of the classic story that is less romanticized than the 1940 Disney animated classic. Del Toro’s film will be a musical set in Italy during the turbulent 1930s. This collision of innocence in a political environment of repression and growing fascism is reminiscent of the construct of his Oscar-winning Pan’s Labyrinth, a spectacular fable set in the backdrop of Francoist Spain in 1944.
He’s also working with a number of notables on this project. He has co-written the script with Patrick McHale (Adventure Time, Over the Garden Wall), and he will be co-directing with Mark Gustafson (Fantastic Mr. Fox). The film will be a co-production between Guillermo Del Toro, The Jim Henson Company, and Shadowmachine. The film’s puppets will be made by Mackinnon and Saunders, who were responsible for the puppets in The Corpse Bride.
Del Toro on his enthusiasm for the project:
No art form has influenced my life and my work more than animation and no single character in history has had as deep of a personal connection to me as Pinocchio. In our story, Pinocchio is an innocent soul with an uncaring father who gets lost in a world he cannot comprehend. He embarks on an extraordinary journey that leaves him with a deep understanding of his father and the real world. I’ve wanted to make this movie for as long as I can remember. After the incredible experience we have had on Trollhunters, I am grateful that the talented team at Netflix is giving me the opportunity of a lifetime to introduce audiences everywhere to my version of this strange puppet-turned-real-boy.
Source: IGN
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