Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Trailer, Release Date, Cast

Netflix is reimagining the basic story of Pinocchio for a forthcoming stop-motion musical directed by Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro. The streamer launched the complete trailer for the film on Nov. 9, a clip narrated by Ewan McGregor as Sebastian J. Cricket that exhibits Pinocchio (Gregory Mann) as he offers with life as a puppet and never a “actual boy.”

Netflix launched the film’s first teaser on Jan. 24, which gave viewers their preliminary glimpse on the stop-motion animation. Netflix’s “Pinocchio” — which del Toro has been engaged on for over a decade — relies on the unique 1883 Italian story written by Carlo Collodi, which Disney revamped in 1940 with its personal animated film. In 2008, del Toro introduced his plans to develop a stop-motion animated film based mostly on Collodi’s model, however through the years, he struggled to search out funding for it and was compelled to modify studios a number of instances.

As Netflix put it, del Toro “reinvents Collodi’s basic story of the wood marionette who’s magically delivered to life with a purpose to mend the guts of a grieving woodcarver named Geppetto.” The movie will chart Pinocchio on his journey to search out the place he belongs, with many pitfalls alongside the best way. Netflix additionally revealed that the movie is about in the course of the reign of Benito Mussolini in Italy and describes the tackle the story as “otherworldly.”

Learn on for every little thing we learn about del Toro’s “Pinocchio” to date, together with the forged and launch date, and to observe the teaser trailers.

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“Pinocchio” Launch Date

del Toro’s “Pinocchio” premieres on Netflix on Dec. 9.

“Pinocchio” Forged

“Pinocchio”‘s voice forged contains Ewan McGregor, Gregory Mann, David Bradley, Christoph Waltz, Tilda Swinton, Finn Wolfhard, Ron Perlman, Cate Blanchett, and John Turturro.