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
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
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.
Looking for some stories?
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
A trailer has released for the film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo02mwsWbAI
It looks pretty nice, from what I saw.

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.