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Original pinocchio story vs disney3/9/2023 ![]() Also with Roberto it’s a chase that started many years ago: I met him as a child, thanks to my father (theatre critic Nico Garrone, one of the first to write about Benigni at the start of his career). As years passed, I have always felt something familiar in the story, as if Pinocchio had penetrated my imagination to such an extent that many have found traces of his adventures in my previous films. “Collodi’s puppet and I have been chasing each other since I was a child, drawing my first storyboards. In his statement announcing the film, Garrone said, “Filming ‘Pinocchio’ and directing Roberto Benigni are two dreams come true in one film.” “I think I made my first storyboards for ‘Pinocchio’ when I was 6 six years old.” ![]() “I’m Italian, so I grew up with the story,” Garrone said. One thing that sets Garrone’s apart is that for his film he’s recruited legendary Italian actor Roberto Benigni, making his return to film since last starring in Woody Allen’s 2012 film “To Rome With Love.” Benigni of course starred as Pinocchio in his own “Pinocchio” from 2002, but he’ll be playing Geppetto in Garrone’s film.Īlso Read: 'Paddington' Director in Talks for Live-Action 'Pinocchio'īut there’s another reason Garrone feels so close to the story. “I will try to make my ‘Pinocchio’ in a way that will be personal and faithful to the original book.” Of course, theirs will be much much bigger than mine,” Garrone told TheWrap’s Steve Pond. And there is also the Disney ‘Pinocchio,’ so there will be three Pinocchios. I know that Guillermo was working on ‘Pinocchio’ for a long time, like me. ![]() So that leaves Matteo Garrone, the director of the gritty mob drama “Gomorrah,” the surreal fairy tale “Tale of Tales,” and Italy’s Foreign Language Oscar submission for 2019, “Dogman.” We asked him how his version of “Pinocchio,” just announced Friday, is different enough to be taken seriously as a real boy, and what he thinks of all the other versions of the wooden puppet fable out there.Īlso Read: Guillermo del Toro Sets 'Pinocchio' Passion Project With Netflix The second project, just announced on Monday, is a passion project from Guillermo del Toro that he’s had on the shelf since 2012 at least, an animated, stop-motion musical that is now being set up at Netflix. And between juggling directors and screenwriters over the years, let’s just say it’s got a lot of strings attached. No lie.įirst there’s Disney’s live-action remake of their 1940 animated classic. As of this week, there are three different versions of the classic fairy tale “Pinocchio” in development.
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