Netflix is reimagining the classic story of Pinocchio in an upcoming stop-motion musical. The teaser trailer, which arrived on Jan. 24, offers us a glimpse of the Guillermo del Toro-directed film from the perspective of Sebastian J. Cricket — aka Jiminy Cricket — who lives contained in the wood puppet. Within the clip, Sebastian makes it clear that this model of Pinocchio is under no circumstances the story we’re all acquainted with.
“I need to inform you a narrative. It is a story you could suppose you understand, however you do not,” he says. Netflix’s Pinocchio — which del Toro has been engaged on for over a decade — is predicated 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 primarily based on Collodi’s traditional, however over time, he struggled to find funding for it and was pressured to change studios a number of instances.
Lastly, the movie has discovered a house at Netflix, and viewers cannot wait to see del Toro’s completed product. Pinocchio arrives on the streaming platform in December of this yr. Watch the first-look trailer above.
