The film’s voice cast includes newcomer Gregory Mann, who was 10 years old when he was chosen for the title role. I intend to, if I can, transition between live action and animation, and slowly but surely lean toward animation.” ![]() It is really a beautiful pace that is more deliberate, but also just simply more organic to the way I like to make movies. We were able to re-board sequences, we were able to add sequences. “We were able to react to the material on a week-to-week basis. “My hope right now is to slow down, and the ideal place to slow down for me is animation, because it is far more my speed,” he tells THR. The auteur, who won a best director Oscar in 2018 for The Shape of Water, says that given the overwhelmingly positive experience he had making Pinocchio - not to mention where he is in his career - this won’t be his last project involving animation. Pinocchio is del Toro’s first foray into directing stop-motion animation, an art form that dates back to the early days of motion pictures and which was developed by filmmaking pioneers del Toro has long admired, such as George Méliès (1902’s A Trip to the Moon), Willis O’Brien ( King Kong, from 1933) and Ray Harryhausen (1963’s Jason and the Argonauts). When the Oscar-winning filmmaker was growing up, Carlo Collodi’s 1883 fable about a wooden puppet who longs to be a real boy was one of his favorites, and del Toro has now made the oft-told tale (Disney released its own ill-received live-action version, starring Tom Hanks, in September) distinctly his own: a darker, timely retelling for today’s audiences, set in fascist Italy during the 1930s.ĭOC NYC Announces 2023 Shortlist for Features and Shorts The joy in Guillermo del Toro‘s face has been abundantly apparent this awards season each time he introduces his latest big-screen outing, a deeply personal animated version of Pinocchio told in the Mexican helmer’s typically sumptuous, meticulously crafted visual style.
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