That Long Nosed Kid Is Coming Back

Thanks to Joblo.com I happen to come across this news and I must say it intrigues me a little bit. Do you still remember that wooden kid who came to life and whenever he lied, his nose grew longer?? Well guess what, he's coming back and Hellboy director Guillermo Del Toro is at the helm. He's directing a 3D stop-motion version of Pinnochio! The best part is that it's going to be a bit darker. This should be good.

Here's what he has to say:

“There has to be darkness in any fairy tale or children’s narrative work, something the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson and Walt Disney understood,” del Toro said. “We tend to call something Disney-fied, but a lot of people forget how powerfully disturbing the best animated Disney movies are, including those kids being turned into donkeys in Pinocchio. What we’re trying to do is present a Pinocchio that is more faithful to the take that Colodi wrote. That is more surreal and slightly darker than what we’ve seen before.”

For instance: “the Blue Fairy is really a dead girl’s spirit,” del Toro said. “Pinocchio has strange moments of lucid dreaming bordering on hallucinations, with black rabbits. The sperm whale that swallows Pinocchio was actually a giant dogfish, which allows for more classical scale and design. The many mishaps Pinocchio goes through include several near-death close calls, a lot more harrowing moments. The key with this is not making any of it feel gratuitous, because the story is integrated with moments of comedy and beauty. He’s one of the great characters, whose purity and innocence allows him to survive in this bleak landscape of robbers and thugs, emerging from the darkness with his soul intact.” 

Del Toro is also writing it along with Matthew Robins and it's being built by McKinnon and Saunders, the company behind CORPSE BRIDE and FANTASTIC MR. FOX.