Guillermo Del Toro considers PINOCCHIO the third film of a trilogy with DEVIL’S BACKBONE and PAN’S LABYRINTH

Guillermo del Toronext stop-motion animation Pinocchio the movie just got a little more interesting. The director has been working on this film for years, it’s his Frankenstein film, and now Del Toro says it’s the third film in a trilogy that goes hand in hand with Spine of the devil And Pan’s labyrinth.

During a recent press conference for Pinocchio, the director explained: “For me this film is an accompanying piece, it is the third film in a trilogy with Spine of the devil And Pan’s labyrinth. The film belongs to me. And those are the three films about childhood and war. You know, and I think the whole movie is in the sense of one piece with those. “

The musical adventure follows the extraordinary journey of a wooden boy magically brought to life by the desire of a father. Set in the 1930s during the rise of fascism in Mussolini’s Italy, del Toro’s film Pinocchio is a story of love and disobedience like Pinocchio struggles to live up to his father’s expectations.

The director previously shared that this version of Pinocchio is not a family-friendly version of the story. The director also discussed his own Pinocchio film, compared to Frankensteinand described it as a “brutalist tale”.

“For me, Pinocchio, very much like Frankenstein, is a blank canvas in which learning the curve of what the world is and what the human being is is very interesting to do as a story. I am very attracted to it because, thematically – and I don’t want to spoil the subject of the film – it is something that is in all my films, which is choice. It is a theme that is very close to my heart. I think [earlier versions of] history, and Collodi’s in particular, are very repressive. It is essentially a very brutalist tale about what sinful disobedience is. And I think disobedience is the beginning of the will and the beginning of the choice. … I think there is something very attractive about seeing disobedience as a virtue, or as the beginning of a virtue. “

He also described the character of Pinocchio, saying, “He is a creature created by unnatural means by a father who then pushes away [himself] from, and must learn about failure, pain and loneliness ”.

Speaking earlier about the film, Perlman said: “The presumption of the film is that Pinocchio is the perfect soldier because he is not human. So he never questions orders. He has no fears. He is invulnerable. “

Del Toro teamed up with the Jim Henson Company and ShadowMachine to bring this film to life, on which it is based Carlo Collodiis the novel. In addition to McGregor as Cricket, the voice cast also includes Ewan McGregor how Sebastian J. Grillo, Gregorio Mann like Pinocchio, David Bradley (Harry Potter, game of Thrones) like Geppetto, Tilda Swinton (Strange Doctor), Cristoph Waltz (Alita: Angel of battle), Finn Wolfhard (Stranger things), Cate Blanchett (Thor: Raganrok), Giovanni Turturro (The Batman), Ron Perlman (Hell boy), Tim Blake Nelson (Guardians), And Burn Gorman (Enola Holmes).

Del Toro directed the film together Marco Gustavo (Great Mr. Fox) and wrote it together with Patrick McHale. The lyrics of the songs come from del Toro and Katz, with music by Alexandre Desplat who will also write the score. Artist Gris Grimly created the original design for the character of Pinocchio in the film and the puppets were built by Mackinnon and Saunders (The Corpse Bride).

Pinocchio will be released on Netflix on December 9, 2022.