Pinocchio just doesn’t get old. Start this year two films at once the well-known Italian legend by Carlo Collodi, in which a wooden doll comes to life and wants nothing more than to become a real boy. version 1 with Tom Hanks is already running on Disney+ * – Pinocchio belongs to the series of 1:1 real-world remakes of well-known animated classics. (These are all of Disney’s live-action remakes at a glance)
Variant 2 is still pending and it will clearly outshine Disney’s uninspired copy. Fantasy master Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy) awakened Pinocchio with the extremely complex stop-motion technique to live. The film will start on Netflix on November 24th.
Watch the first long trailer of Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Trailer 1 (English)
What is Pinocchio about?
Italy in the 1930s: Old Geppetto has lost his son and is being given new company in the form of the self-made Pinocchio. However, the wooden boy who springs to life under his nose is not the good-natured child he had in mind. Instead, the carved rascal causes a lot of trouble with his pranks. As he tries to live up to his father’s expectations, Pinocchio’s disobedience sends him on a journey that may end up taking him to himself.
Stars such as Ewan McGregor, Cate Blanchett, Ron Perlman, Tilda Swinton and Christoph Waltz are present as speakers in the English original. Here is the full cast of Netflix’s Pinocchio.
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