Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Guillermo del Toro's doing a stop motion version of Pinocchio with the Jim Henson Company that will be as creepy as you might expect.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/guillermo-del-toro-opts-to-direct-upcoming-stop-motion-pinnochio/

For starters, he wants Tom Waits to play Geppetto. Also, Ron Perlman will be playing the Stromboli role, Donald Sutherland and Christopher Walken are potential choices for fox and the cat and Daniel Ratcliffe might be Pinocchio.

Songs will be done by Nick Cave and the story's setting has been shifted to facist Italy between the two World Wars, playing with the idea of a puppet without strings in a time and place where everyone else essentially was on them.

Sounds amazing.

Creepy,...stop motion,...odd casting choices,....adaptation? And you're telling me this isn't Tim Burton related in anyway? But Guillermo Del Toro????

I have a bad feeling about this

Pinocchio is why Guillermo del Toro has been hanging out at Dreamworks lately. Get a better feel for animation in order to make his Nightmare Fuel filled movie.

Got some concepts from a while back here http://www.movieweb.com/news/guillermo-del-toros-pinocchio-concept-photos

Wow... that's terrifying.

I guess y'all thought The Nightmare Before Christmas,Corpse Bride, Coraline,and James And The Giant Peach were terrifying to,...because honestly it totally doesn't look out of place in a Burton/Selick collaboration (Although Coraline was Selick only and Corpse Bride was Burton only)

Seriously,this is blowing my mind.

...I'd watch this just to hear Walken as a cat.

In all seriousness, if Guillermo del Toro can get the cast that he is hoping for and he can get a strong production team, I'd definitely see this. I'll be keeping my eye on it.

Here's Gris Grimly's Pinocchio illustrations which are the visual basis of this project.

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/DP/projects/Grimlywebpage/grimlyillustration.htm

I have to say, I like the more "wooden" appearance of this Pinocchio. Makes him look more unhuman than even pre-Disney illustrations.

Yikes. The Disney version of the Transformation Trauma scene is gonna look tame compared to this.

I'm interested in seeing what they'll do with the Fascist Italy setting. That sounds cool.

... del Toro... Pinocchio...

When is the release date? When is it?????

Sometime in 2014.

The linked illustrations shown have boosted my hype for this film.

edited 4th Aug '12 12:25:43 PM by nervmeister

I'm going to bring a stuffed animal with me when I go to see it. I'm sure friends will think it's a stupid thing to do, but by movie's end they'll understand and wish they had my foresight.

Why am I so happy all of a sudden?

Get ready to be happy all over again, because the project's being backed by Netflix!

Of note:

• It's a stop-motion musical set in Italy during the 1930's when fascism and Mussolini were all the rage. Pinocchio is an innocent soul and Geppetto is kind of uncaring.
• Del Toro is doing it with The Jim Henson Company and ShadowMachine.
• Over the Garden Wall's Patrick McHale is co-writing the script with Del Toro, and Fantastic Mr. Fox's Mark Gustafson is co-directing with Del Toro.
• The puppets will be built by Mackinnon and Saunders, whose previous work includes Corpse Bride.

Get hyped.

Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Oct 22nd 2018 at 12:20:00 PM

I'll get hyped when I see a trailer, Guillermo del Toro's projects don't always pan out and it all sounds very ambitious so it's very easy to get excited by

Edited by Ultimatum on Oct 22nd 2018 at 10:21:32 AM

It has a lot of great things going for it. I just hope it doesn't crash and burn.

Shut up and take my money, Toro.

Netflix backing has me optimistic.

Will it use same artstyle though?

I'm so glad the project is back on track.

A trailer has released for the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo02mwsWbAI

It looks pretty nice, from what I saw.

Totally forgot this had its own thread. Heh.

Embedded for the click-saving crowd:

I know it's just a teaser, but wow the tone is a lot more whimsical than I expected.

And its actually happening, hooray!