Why Are There 3 Pinocchio Movies Coming Out This Year?
It's a pretty tired observation at this point, but the fact is, originality is a dying concept in the modern movie business. While some adaptations fundamentally change the text and create some of the most important works of all time from their inspirations, others cynically ape the classics and try to steal some attention.
The Adventures of Pinocchio is an Italian children's novel written by Carlo Collodi in 1883. The classic tale was first published in serialized weekly magazine columns before its adaptation into a full book. The work has been enduringly popular and beloved for over 140 years and has inspired countless adaptations in just about every art medium on Earth.
Guillermo Del Toro's Sympathetic Monsters
The Pinocchio on everyone's mind is unquestionably Guillermo del Toro's long-awaited foray into stop-motion animation. The film was announced a whopping fourteen years ago and has been promised several times over the years. Directors and writers have joined and left the project, but since the beginning, del Toro has described the work as his passion project. Del Toro hardly needs an introduction, he's one of the most beloved horror and fantasy directors of the modern age. His particular style is groundbreaking, yet immediately distinct. To imagine that the eleven films del Toro has crafted, each masterful in their own right, still land below Pinocchio in terms of the director's passion tickles the mind with possibilities. Finally, courtesy of Netflix, del Toro has free rein to bring his dream film to life. Unfortunately, he'll be doing so against a very different portrayal of the same work.
Disney is continuing their long campaign of converting their classic tales into modern live-action, or at least more
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