Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio Gets New First-Look Photos Of The Puppet And Geppetto

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Brand-new images from Guillermo del Toro's upcoming film, Pinocchio, offer fans a first look at the beloved Pinocchio and his creator, Geppetto. This is not to be confused with Disney's live-action remake of their iconic 1940 cartoon film of the same name.

Del Toro is a director who is known to push the boundaries, instilled with an abundance of brilliant creativity and an imagination as wide and expansive as a child’s. His version of the film is inspired by Gus Grimley's eccentric visual design of the character from his 2002 illustrated version of the original 1883 Carlo Collodi novel. Netflix's Pinocchio is also set to be a stop-motion animated picture. The movie will be taking on del Toro's classic noir, dark approach to filmmaking that he is known and praised for most. Pinocchio is a distorted retelling of the famous Italian fairy tale that has managed to be adapted into numerous theatrical and television projects — spanning 100 years of this same story being passed down and told. The highly anticipated film is set in 1930's Fascist Italy, where the country at the time was under the rule of Benito Mussolini.

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Now, Vanity Fair has recently sat down with director del Toro to chat about his tale on Pinocchio. Following the interview, Netflix also went ahead and released some new images from the film that will give fans a clue as to what artistic style and vision the director is going for. From the looks of the images, the stop-motion animation seems to naturally be taking inspiration from Tim Burton's (Edward Scissorhands, Corpse Bride, The Nightmare Before Christmas) gothic, grotesque taste.

Pinocchio is centered around a wooden puppet that miraculously comes to life, leading him