Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is just weeks away, as the iconic filmmaker presents his long-awaited stop-motion reimagining of a classic fairytale. The Mexican auteur is perhaps best known as the writer-director of Pan’s Labyrinth and The Shape of Water, for which he won a combined seven Oscars.
Pinocchio is something of a passion project for del Toro, and has been around 15 years in the making. After several false starts and near cancellations over the past decade, the film was acquired by Netflix in 2018, and received a limited theatrical run around the world before its premiere on the streaming platform later this year.
In a statement published by Variety on the film’s announcement, del Toro said he had wanted to make the film for “as long as I can remember.” He said: “No art form has influenced my life and my work more than animation and no single character in history has had as deep of a personal connection to me as Pinocchio.”
