Under the large pantheon of Movies Guillermo Del Toro Scarries He’s Going To Go to the making, One Of These Days, the production of the director with long features of Pinocchio must be somewhere at the top. (It’s no At The Mountains Of Madness, sure, but considering the project dates back to 2008 or so, it’s still a pretty long stretch of make-believe.) Now, however, it seems like Del-Toro’s stop-motion adaptation of Carlo Collodi’s 1883 good and true progress, thanks to Netflix—And, damn, but that’s a good cast for one Pinocchio film.
Aside from the newcomer Gregory Mann as the wooden child himself, the cast list released by Netflix today is pretty much just a big ol ‘bowl with ringers, by Ewan McGregor as “The Talking Cricket”, to Tilda Swinton as “The Fairy With Turquoise Hair,To Christoph Waltz as evilent Fox and Cat. Counting Waltz, Swinton, and Cate Blanchett (in a not yetannounced part), that there are three Oscar winners right there, to say nothing of John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, Finn Wolfhard, and Burn Gorman – plus Harry Potter alum David Bradley as Gepetto, and Del Toro favorite Ron Perlman as evil puppet master Mangiafuoco. (That’s mid-movie bad boyStromboli, if you’re only familiar with the Disney movie.)
If this was someone else’s story, we would argue that this cast is probably too damn good Good for one Pinocchio film. (After all, is not a part as flair as Geppetto more speed from Drew Carey?) But Del Toro – who has not directed a film since his best winner of Best Picture of 2017 The form of water– has definitely earned some mutual passion for his passion projects like this, especially since his takeover of the film (set during Mussolini’s Italy, and co-directed by The fantastic Mr. Fox‘s Mark Gustafson) sounds legally fascinating, to boot.
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