Disney’s live-action Pinocchio Image: Photo courtesy of Disney Enterprises, Inc. What is it about Pinocchio, the story of a marionette puppet who wants to become a real boy, that makes filmmakers keep coming back to it, again and again? There are dozens of film adaptations floating out there, dating...
- 9/9/2022
- by Cindy White
- avclub.com
Tony Sokol Nov 6, 2018
Guillermo del Toro strings together his first animated feature project as Pinocchio comes to Netflix, and that's no lie.
"Woe to those who lead slothful lives," Carlo Collodi wrote in his 1880s children's stories The Adventures of Pinocchio. "Sloth is a dreadful illness and must be cured at once, in childhood." Guillermo del Toro has always used childhood as an inoculation against any kinds of laziness. His last film, The Shape of Water, won four Academy Awards last year, including Best Director and Best Picture Oscars. His next movie marks his animated feature film debut. Del Toro will direct, write and produce a stop-motion musical adaptation of Pinocchio for Netflix. He's wanted to do this all his life, and that's no lie.
“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...
Guillermo del Toro strings together his first animated feature project as Pinocchio comes to Netflix, and that's no lie.
"Woe to those who lead slothful lives," Carlo Collodi wrote in his 1880s children's stories The Adventures of Pinocchio. "Sloth is a dreadful illness and must be cured at once, in childhood." Guillermo del Toro has always used childhood as an inoculation against any kinds of laziness. His last film, The Shape of Water, won four Academy Awards last year, including Best Director and Best Picture Oscars. His next movie marks his animated feature film debut. Del Toro will direct, write and produce a stop-motion musical adaptation of Pinocchio for Netflix. He's wanted to do this all his life, and that's no lie.
“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...
- 10/22/2018
- Den of Geek
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