[Screen Rant]

Pan’s Labyrinth and Hellboy series director Guillermo del Toro has been working (in some capacity) on the Jim Henson Company’s 3D stop-motion retelling ofPinocchio since 2008.

Back in February 2011, it was announced he would produce the film – which is based on a darker treatment of Carlo Collodi’s partly-serialized 19th century novel “The Adventures of Pinocchio” ….

Reports are in that del Toro has decided to just go whole-hog on Pinocchio (fully titled… well, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio) and co-direct the picture, alongsideFantastic Mr. Fox animation director Mark Gustafson. Special effects will be handled by MacKinnon and Saunders (Corpse Bride), while eclectic rocker Nick Cave will serve as a music consultant on the project.

It probably goes without saying: del Toro’s Pinocchio is going to go beyond even Collodi’s source material, as far as being a darkly twisted and often surreal children’s story (or something like that…).  …

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