PINOCCHIO: Full Cast Announced For HELLBOY Director Guillermo Del Toro's Stop-Motion Musical

PINOCCHIO: Full Cast Announced For HELLBOY Director Guillermo Del Toro's Stop-Motion Musical

The full cast of Guillermo del Toro and Netflix's Pinocchio has been announced, and it includes a star-studded lineup consisting of names like Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Christoph Waltz, & Ron Perlman!

By Nighthawk01 - Aug 19, 2020 12:08 PM EST
Filed Under: Netflix

Netflix has announced the cast of Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion animated musical, Pinocchio (which is completely unrelated to the live-action version Disney has in development). 

Some of these casting additions have previously been reported, though there are some surprises. Newcomer Gregory Mann will star as Pinocchio with Ewan McGregor as Cricket and David Bradley (Game of Thrones) as Geppetto. Other cast members includes Tilda Swinton, Christoph Waltz, Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things), Cate Blanchett, John Turturro (The Batman), Ron Perlman (Nightmare Alley), Tim Blake Nelson (Watchmen), and Burn Gorman (Enola Holmes).

According to an officially released synopsis, del Toro's film draws on the classic Carlo Collodi tale and "follows the extraordinary journey of a wooden boy magically brought to life by a father’s wish. Set during the rise of Fascism in Mussolini’s Italy, del Toro's Pinocchio is a story of love and disobedience as Pinocchio struggles to live up to his father’s expectations."

Del Toro and Mark Gustafson (Fantastic Mr. Fox), while the former and Patrick McHale wrote the script. The song lyrics are by del Toro and Katz, with music by Academy Award winner Alexandre Desplat who will also write the score. Gris Grimly created the original design for the Pinocchio character. The film’s puppets are being built by Mackinnon and Saunders (Corpse Bride).

Pinocchio is set to debut in theaters and on Netflix. Principal photography began last Fall and has continued uninterrupted during the pandemic. "After years of pursuing this dream project, I found my perfect partner in Netflix," the filmmaker says in a press release shared earlier today. 

"We have spent a long time curating a remarkable cast and crew and have been blessed by continuous support from Netflix to quietly and carefully soldier on, barely missing a beat. We all love and practice animation with great passion and believe it to be the ideal medium to retell this classic story in a completely new way."

No release date has been confirmed, but more details should now follow in the coming weeks.

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Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 8/19/2020, 12:13 PM
Perlman as Mangiafuoco, please and thank you.
Kumkani
Kumkani - 8/19/2020, 12:16 PM
This is a pretty cool cast
tmp3
tmp3 - 8/19/2020, 12:19 PM
This project sounds so much more interesting than the other Pinocchio film in development right now, lol.
Great cast, nice to see Tim Blake Nelson there, one of the best character actors around
Dredd97
Dredd97 - 8/19/2020, 12:25 PM
@tmp3 - the fact that this isn't for Disney makes me SO excited. The cast is stellar, the director is Del Toro, and stop motion is always incredible. Still wish they'd let our stop motion Hellboy movie happen lol
tmp3
tmp3 - 8/19/2020, 12:28 PM
@Dredd97 - YES!!
Stop motion Hellboy would be amazing, man; it'd work so well with the art style of the comics too. Maybe that's how we finally get GDT to do another one of these, haha.
Dredd97
Dredd97 - 8/19/2020, 12:35 PM
@tmp3 - Right? And they wouldn't need to change designs. They could do an anthology and do a few stories too, like The Crooked Man. Haha anything to have GDT and Ron Perlman back
RevanIsMyMan
RevanIsMyMan - 8/19/2020, 12:53 PM
@Dredd97 - What about a stop motion Fables?
Dredd97
Dredd97 - 8/19/2020, 1:04 PM
@RevanIsMyMan - Dang, that too. I'd like that to try as a live action HBO or even animated.
Dredd97
Dredd97 - 8/19/2020, 1:06 PM
@RevanIsMyMan - my bad dude, I was thinking of Saga. Fables would own as a stop motion show/series of movies
RevanIsMyMan
RevanIsMyMan - 8/19/2020, 1:21 PM
@Dredd97 - And it will be a lot better than Once Upon A Time
CurlyBill
CurlyBill - 8/19/2020, 12:25 PM
Figured Perlman would be part of the cast.
HarrowRed
HarrowRed - 8/19/2020, 12:27 PM
GDT and Nolan working off the same playbook. Burn Gorman and Ron Perlman are going to be in all of his movies from now on, just like Tom Hardy with Nolan.

Not that I'm complaining, they're both terrific.
blackandyellow
blackandyellow - 8/19/2020, 12:37 PM
I'll never look at Geppetto the same after reading Fables.
RevanIsMyMan
RevanIsMyMan - 8/19/2020, 12:54 PM
@blackandyellow - I'll never look at Ichabod Crane the same way again after playing Wolf Among Us
batman001
batman001 - 8/19/2020, 1:10 PM
here's hoping it's more like the book then the Disney movie is
GothamSon
GothamSon - 8/19/2020, 1:27 PM
Great concept. Fascist Italy? I'm getting Captain Vidal vibes from this, hide the glass bottles
asherman93
asherman93 - 8/19/2020, 2:12 PM
Crosses fingers for Netflix to fund Hellboy 3.
Kozmik
Kozmik - 8/19/2020, 2:42 PM
@repulse93 - I've never thought of that but it's possible, I suppose.
Chewtoy
Chewtoy - 8/19/2020, 2:19 PM
I didn’t know that this was going to be stop-motion... now my interest is way higher.
Kozmik
Kozmik - 8/19/2020, 2:42 PM
It wouldn't be a Guillermo Del Toro feature without Ron Perlman making an appearance.
L0RDbuckethead
L0RDbuckethead - 8/19/2020, 2:51 PM
Dis gon be scary
Goldboink
Goldboink - 8/19/2020, 3:00 PM
"Set during the rise of Fascism in Mussolini’s Italy"

While Pan's Labyrinth was a great movie it was some dark dark stuff. The only thing that concerns me is that Del Toro has a penchant for making sure that there is sand in the sugar bowl. There are likely to be some significant political overtones to this and it certainly won't be just singing and frolicking.
Toonstrack
Toonstrack - 8/19/2020, 5:55 PM
Hope Pinocchios actor doesn't give a wooden performance....
Jimster
Jimster - 8/19/2020, 7:54 PM
Solid cast. I'm a big fan of stop motion stuff. I'll check this out for sure.
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