Pinocchio: Guillermo del Toro’s movie will release in 2022 on Netflix

Guillermo del Toro has revealed that his next project will be based on Carlo Collodi’s Italian classic, Pinocchio.

Guillermo del Toro is a modern filmmaker who is known for making movies that play with your mind. The director has revealed that his next project will be a re-imagination of Carlo Collodi’s Italian classic, Pinocchio.

del Toro also revealed that the movie is looking to release in late 2022 on Netflix. The filmmaker has been fiddling with the idea since 2008 but has run into issues with studios and producers. The movie was picked up by Netflix in 2018.

Production on the animation reportedly began in January 2020, filming in Guadalajara, Mexico, and Portland, Oregon.

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In conversation with Collider, the filmmaker said that the movie will be unlike any other version of the tale and characters that have been told before and that it was very personal to him.

“The idea of a Pinocchio that talks about things that I consider very deep but it’s fun and it’s a musical at the same time, I find it really incredibly moving,” said del Toro in the interview.

According to reports, the stop-motion movie will be a dark take on the Italian classic of the young boy, whose nose grows a bit longer every time he lies. The movie will also have an ensemble cast with Gregory Mann, Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Christoph Waltz, Cate Blanchett, Finn Wolfhard, Ron Perlman, and David Bradley.

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