Announced a few years ago, Guillermo del Toro is going to be directing a stop-motion animated Pinocchio film, a longtime passion project for del Toro that’s finally coming to life in the near future.
Del Toro will write, produce and direct a brand new version of the classic children’s tale about a puppet who wants to be a real live boy, based on Gris Grimly‘s designs.
Doctor Sleep‘s Ewan McGregor, in an interview with ACE Universe (via Fandom), revealed that he’ll be voicing Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio conscience that’s projected as a talking cricket.
“I’m playing Jiminy Cricket in Guillermo del Toro’s version of Pinocchio,” he exclaimed. “That I had started working on before I left for New York, so some of that is recorded. And of course, it’s stop-motion animated so it’s going to take them a great long time to make that film. But my first part, which is recording his dialogue, is sort of done. There may or may not be a song that has to be recorded. I’m not sure I’m at liberty to discuss that.”
The film will be set in Italy during the ’30s, a particularly fraught historical moment and a time when Fascism was on the rise and Benito Mussolini was consolidating control of the country. Del Toro compared it to “Frankenstein” in previous interviews.
source https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3620370/ewan-mcgregor-voice-jiminy-cricket-guillermo-del-toros-pinocchio/
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