Guillermo del Toro Developing Pinocchio

[Samurai8472]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=50585

Guillermo del Toro (upcoming The Hobbit) is developing Pinocchio as a stop-motion feature with the Jim Henson Co. as a darker version of the original fairy tale.

The project will be produced by JHC co-toppers Brian Henson and Lisa Henson along with senior VP Jason Lust. Del Toro will executive produce.

Del Toro's working on the screenplay with Gris Grimley, who illustrated a 2002 version of "Pinocchio." Grimley and Adam Parrish King will co-direct the film.

It will interesting to see Pinocchio travel to the depths of hell and face a four face bondage wearing demon with wings and piercings

 

[Broccoli]

I dunno. For a children's story, Pinocchio is pretty dark to begin with. Does it need to be darker?

 

[Mr. Adventure]

It may be "darker" (man I'm getting tired of that...) but it couldn't be any creepier than Roberto Benigni's Pinnochio.

 

[TheSeeker]

Stop-motion sounds interesting. I wonder why they decided to go back to that technology.

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

GAH! Will these weird artist/directors whatever they are stop with the creepy renditions of childhood classics. Instead of loving the simplicity and the story, our kids will grow up scared and scarred by these -- things.

 

[votd]

GAH! Will these weird artist/directors whatever they are stop with the creepy renditions of childhood classics. Instead of loving the simplicity and the story, our kids will grow up scared and scarred by these -- things.

The original stories were dark though, it's Disney and the like that's responsible for dumbing them down and making them all have happy endings.

 

[Reverend]

Exactly. As I recall the original text was more than a little harsh my "modern" standards. That is modern standards where children's entertainment is concerned. The same is true to differing degrees for the likes of 'The Wizard of Oz', 'Alice in Wonderland' and the various tales by the Brothers Grimm.

Still, "dark" is a term that gets abused quite a bit in modern entertainment. For allot of people "Dark" seams to mean anything not involving fluffy pink bunnies and bright rainbows. It's really more subtly subjective than that.

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

GAH! Will these weird artist/directors whatever they are stop with the creepy renditions of childhood classics. Instead of loving the simplicity and the story, our kids will grow up scared and scarred by these -- things.

The original stories were dark though, it's Disney and the like that's responsible for dumbing them down and making them all have happy endings.

Still, I rather have kids growing up reading the happy versions of these stories instead of giving them nightmares. In fact, the reason I got into these literary classics is because I knew there were two different versions of them and I wanted to see the difference.