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It will then premiere on Netflix in December. Pinocchio will get a limited theatrical release in November to qualify for the Oscars. Tim Blake Nelson, Burn Gorman, and John Turturro also have undisclosed roles in the film.ĭel Toro co-directed the film with Mark Gustafson, and co-wrote the script with Patrick McHale. Cricket, and he leads a cast that includes Gregory Mann as Pinocchio, Christoph Waltz as Count Volpe, Tilda Swinton as the Fairy with Turquoise Hair, Finn Wolfhard as Candlewick, Ron Perlman as the Podestà, and Cate Blanchett as Sprezzatura the Monkey. And Pinocchio’s famously loose relationship with the truth will only make his nose grow longer and longer.Įwan McGregor narrates the trailer as Sebastian J. With Pinocchio, he has adapted another definitive Italian fairy tale, this time with an all-Italian cast. Getting a second chance to be a father would be a dream come true for Geppetto, if Pinocchio could just stay out of trouble. Cold and wet, Pinocchio comes home and lies down on a stove, but the next day when he wakes up he falls to the ground with burned feet. The trailer implies that Pinocchio’s soul is borrowed from someone else and that he was made from a tree that grew near the grave of Geppetto’s late son. The man thinks that Pinocchio was one of the hooligans who ring the bells for fun, and instead of giving him a good piece of bread all he gets is a bucket of cold water on his head. scripts and further licensing information. Script error: No such module 'Category handler'. reproduce this script in any manner or to perform this play. Shortly after that MRS.GEPPETTO enters bringing Geppetto a snack. Shortly afterwards, GEPPETTO enters in the background and starts to work at his bench making cuckoo clocks. Perhaps the biggest departure from Disney’s Pinocchio is the notion that Geppetto (David Bradley) is a grieving father who once had a son of his own. Category:Script error: No such module 'pagetype'.s with short descriptionExpression error: Unexpected < operator. PINOCCHIO Synopsis First Draft This Draft Scene 1 Geppetto’s workshop MR.CHERRY, a local wood-cutter, enters carrying a log. GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO | Official Teaser Trailer | Netflix

Hedges is repped by CAA and attorneys Marc Glick at Glick & Weintraub and Stephen Breimer at Bloom, Hergott. Another loosely based version starred Verne Troyer as a killer puppet in a 1996 horror pic from Trimark called Pinocchios Revenge. and in overseas productions, the most memorable in recent years being Roberto Benignis Pinocchio. The story has come to life on the small and big screens in the U.S. What a smart business plan by the powers that be at the studio led by Alan Horn.ĭisney brought the animated version of the original Pinocchio story to the screen in 1940, and it has been remade several times both in toon and live-action versions, once with Mickey Rooney (1957). There has also been buzz about a live-action Winnie the Pooh-inspired tale in development. Foreign financiers are said to be circling that one.ĭisney has been combing through its coffers of late, looking for live-action versions of popular fairy tales and has several on the horizon, including The Jungle Book, being directed by Iron Man and Iron Man 2 helmer Jon Favreau Beauty And The Beast, which will star Emma Watson, Luke Evans and Josh Gad and Dumbo, to be directed by Tim Burton and Mulan. It would be a stop-motion animated 3D film.

The Book Of Life producer is planning to co-direct that version from a script he co-wrote with Matthew Robbins. Guillermo del Toro also has a darker version of that story in development at his company. This is not the only Pinocchio-inspired film in Hollywood. Pinocchio came from the mind of author Carlo Collodi, who wrote the 1883 novel The Adventures Of Pinocchio. The story is really about the relationship between a father and son, the ramifications of lying and creating stories and living in a fantasy world. Pinocchio gets his wish but is prone to stretching the truth, and each time he does, his nose grows longer. Peter Hedges is penning a feature loosely based on the original Pinocchiostory about a marionette carved from wood who dreams of becoming a real boy. Pinocchio-Inspired Live-Action Film Being Developed At DisneyĮXCLUSIVE: Yet another live-action version of a tried-and-true Disney fairy tale is wending its way to the big screen.
