Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
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- Director
- Guillermo del Toro , Mark Gustafson
- Release Date
- December 9, 2022
- Distributor(s)
- Netflix
- Cast
- Ewan McGregor , David Bradley , Gregory Mann , Ron Pearlman , Cate Blanchett , Finn Wolfhard , Christoph Waltz , Tilda Swinton , John Turturro
- Writers
- Carlo Collodi , Gris Grimly , Matthew Robbins , Guillermo del Toro
- Runtime
- 114 minutes
- Budget
- $35 million
Summary
From director Guillermo del Toro comes Pinocchio, a stop-motion animation reimagining of Carlo Collodi's original tale, The Adventures of Pinocchio. A darker story than the Disney original, this Pinocchio takes place during the fascist regime in 1930s Italy after the passing of Gepetto's son, Carlo. When Gepetto's grief overcomes him, he finally seeks an outlet by creating a wooden boy who comes to life. However, Gepetto's new wooden son is more of a trickster than a well-behaved boy, as he pranks the people he comes across and tends to lean on the wild side. Pinocchio will struggle to make his father proud and learn what it means to be a real boy while avoiding the pursuit of the film's main antagonist, Count Volpe (Christoph Waltz), and surviving military enlistment during a war-torn time in Italy's history.
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