‘The shape of Water’ & ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ director Guillermo Del Toro will direct the latest ‘Pinocchio’ adaptation for Netflix. Del Toro will be making his animation directorial debut, fresh off on an Oscar win for ‘The Shape of Water’. The story, unless you live under a rock, is a stop-motion musical version of the classic children’s tale about a puppet who wants to be a real live boy. But as the tale goes, his nose grows.
Del Toro will also direct and write the animated film for Netflix and currently has no imminent release date, but production will begin this fall.
The film will be set in Italy during the 1930s, a particularly fraught historical moment and a time when fascism was on the rise and Benito Mussolini was consolidating control of the country.
“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 personal connection to me as Pinocchio,” said del Toro told the media. “In our story, Pinocchio is an innocent soul with an uncaring father who gets lost in a world he cannot comprehend. He embarks on an extraordinary journey that leaves him with a deep understanding of his father and the real world. I’ve wanted to make this movie for as long as I can remember.”
This isn’t the first thing Del Toro has collaborated on with Netflix and it surely isn’t the first animated project. Del Toro is the director fo the infamous ‘Trollhunters’ series and he’s also producing a horror anthology “Guillermo del Toro Presents 10 After Midnight.” Quite the partnership if I do say so myself.
If there’s one thing that we know when it comes to Del Toro, he doesn’t miss.
