“Pinocchio” is one of the greatest Disney classics. In fact, “The House of the Mouse” is about to release a reimagined version with real actors, of which they have already released a first official trailer to promote its early arrival on streaming. However, the Mickey Mouse company will not be the only one that will adapt the wooden boy, since Netflix He has also jumped on the remake ship.
In this case, ‘The Big Red N’ will present its own vision through a stop-motion film, directed by the famous filmmaker William of the Bull. Although they had already published a first teaser, Vanity Fair magazine has presented some exclusive photos of the film as a preview, in addition to advancing details of the peculiar plot.
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What will it be about?
As you remember, Disney introduced Geppetto like a skilled carpenter who longs to have his own child, so he builds a puppet that, through the work of a fairy godmother, becomes a real little boy. But Netflix has chosen to give this story a radical twist.
In this way, we will not be placed in a fairy tale, but rather in an Italy located between the First and Second World Wars, moment in which we will see the rise of fascism Y the authoritarian regime in the country. In that context, Pinocchio will be born as a soul that does not follow the rules, but he will not be punished for it.
del toro He admits that his vision is very different from the material that inspired Disney in the 1940s: “It is contrary to the book, because the book seeks to tame the spirit of the child in a strange way. It is a book full of great inventions, but it is also in favor of obeying your parents and being ‘a good boy’ and all that”.
With this in mind, he adds the following: “Pinocchio’s virtue is to disobey. At a time when everyone is behaving like a puppet, he is not. Those are the interesting things, to me. I don’t want to tell the same story again. I want to tell it my way and the way I understand the world”.
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New story, ‘new’ characters
Despite the fact that many of the iconic characters (and their attitudes) that we saw in “Pinocchio” of Disney penetrated very strongly among viewers, the Netflix version will choose to change key aspects of them.
In this way, the wooden child will be an irreverent soul because he wishes it so and not because of his ignorance of the world around him. In the case of Sebastian (new name of the cricket in the original version), it will not be a very drastic awareness, rather it will act as a driver of the decisions of his ‘protégé’.
“In our history, the cricket is often beaten, but it is also a journey for the cricket to find love and humility,” said Guillermo del Toro.
Likewise, magical beings will not be included, beyond the mystical ‘presence’ of the forest and the protagonist. Therefore, we will not have an anthropomorphic fox as a villain, rather a person with elongated sideburns with a malicious expression on his face.
“He did not want magical creatures beyond the spirit of the forest that gives him life, and Pinocchio himself. She didn’t want a talking fox and cat, or the magic of turning him into a donkey. He wanted everything else to resemble the real world as much as possible, ”said the Mexican director.
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Confirmed cast for Netflix’s “Pinocchio”
- Gregory Mann as Pinocchio
- David Bradley as Geppetto
- Finn Wolfhard as Candlewick, the antagonist turned ally
- Ewan McGregor as Sebastian
- Christoph Waltz as Count Volpe
- Ron Perlman as the town policeman and Candlewick’s father
The cast also includes Tilda Swinton, Tim Blake Nelson and John Turturro in roles to be announced.
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