Disney's live-action Pinocchio

[Lencho01]

Yep.

‘Pinocchio’-Inspired Live-Action Disney Film In Works – Deadline

‘Pinocchio’-Inspired Live-Action Film Being Developed At Disney

by Anita Busch April 8, 2015 12:49pm

EXCLUSIVE: Yet another live-action version of a tried-and-true Disney fairy tale is wending its way to the big screen. Peter Hedges is penning a feature loosely based on the original Pinocchio story about a marionette carved from wood who dreams of becoming a real boy. Pinocchio gets his wish but is prone to stretching the truth, and each time he does, his nose grows longer.

The story is really about the relationship between a father and son, the ramifications of lying and creating stories and living in a fantasy world. Pinocchio came from the mind of author Carlo Collodi, who wrote the 1883 novel The Adventures Of Pinocchio.

This is not the only Pinocchio-inspired film in Hollywood. Guillermo del Toro also has a darker version of that story in development at his company. The Book Of Life producer is planning to co-direct that version from a script he co-wrote with Matthew Robbins. It would be a stop-motion animated 3D film. Foreign financiers are said to be circling that one.

Disney has been combing through its coffers of late, looking for live-action versions of popular fairy tales and has several on the horizon, including The Jungle Book, being directed by Iron Man and Iron Man 2 helmer Jon Favreau; Beauty And The Beast, which will star Emma Watson, Luke Evans and Josh Gad; and Dumbo, to be directed by Tim Burton; and Mulan. There has also been buzz about a live-action Winnie the Pooh-inspired tale in development. What a smart business plan by the powers that be at the studio led by Alan Horn.

Disney brought the animated version of the original Pinocchio story to the screen in 1940, and it has been remade several times both in toon and live-action versions, once with Mickey Rooney (1957). The story has come to life on the small and big screens in the U.S. and in overseas productions, the most memorable in recent years being Roberto Benigni’s Pinocchio. Another loosely based version starred Verne Troyer as a killer puppet in a 1996 horror pic from Trimark called Pinocchio’s Revenge.

Hedges is repped by CAA and attorneys Marc Glick at Glick & Weintraub and Stephen Breimer at Bloom, Hergott.

 

[sueb1863]

O_O What, again???

So is this based on the classic musical cartoon or the book or what?

 

[redhawk23]

 

[Fallen Angel]

Stahp Disney.

 

[Boy Scout]

Wow. They really have no shame.

They're probably going to start turning their live action properties into cartoons next.

 

[Snow Queen]

Wow. They really have no shame.

They're probably going to start turning their live action properties into cartoons next.

Or better. They'll turn all their 2D animated films into live action, then turn them into CG animated films in a few decades.

 

[jmc]

At this stage why not. They've kinda given up making anything new.

 

[Jason Kane]

I'm calling it now: Live-Action Lion King for the animated movie's 25th anniversary

 

[Jason Kane]

O_O What, again???

So is this based on the classic musical cartoon or the book or what?

Knowing Disney, their version. Then again, if we got a Sleeping Beauty film with Maleficent's wing cutting as a rape analogue, surely Disney would have the guts to show Pinocchio as the rotten little bastard of the book beating Jiminy to death with a mallet.

 

[jmc]

We need a thread specifically for all Disney's Live action animated remakes.

 

[superhero]

how about live action Aladdin movie? it could be like lord of the rings type movie.

 

[Lily Adler]

Animated Mary Poppins!

 

[flickchick85]

This is getting to be a bit much. I'll admit I never would have expected to love Cinderella as much as I did, but that doesn't mean they should start an assembly line of live-action remakes of their animated classics. Beauty and the Beast I get as it's a grand, timeless romance and Mulan could be quite epic I suppose, but Dumbo? Pinocchio? Come on now, Disney. Restrain yourselves. I feel like there should be a rule that if you'll likely have to animate your protagonist in a "live-action" remake, then maybe you don't need a live-action remake to begin with.

 

[bullets]

I've been hoping for a Pinnochio adaptation from the books . Ah well. The one that really gets me is Dumbo. I can't see the purpose of making that live action.

 

[def28]

Was hoping they would do Aladdin but Pinocchio could be awesome. We really haven't had a well told big budget version of that. I don't see the issue or harm here. These are being made for the kids while making sure the classic tales stay fresh in peoples minds and remain part of their legacy. Not another studios. No one else is really hitting the market well for live action family films and families do want to see these, so why wouldn't they continue?

 

[Lencho01]

Song of the South should be next!

 

[Silvermoth]

Yay to seeing a live action monstro! I hope he's as awesome as he was in the original.

Anyway I'll see this but to be honest Im not as keen on it as I was for cinderella, beauty and the beast or mulan because it's considerably less fabulous.

 

[Silvermoth]

We need a thread specifically for all Disney's Live action animated remakes.

Nono, think bigger! An entire forum!

 

[sueb1863]

Is Pinocchio really THAT great of a story that it deserves so many versions?

And I agree that if they really wanted to be different they'd stick a lot more to the book. Versions that do that, however, don't tend to be very successful.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Song of the South should be next!

Put enough zeros on a cheque and Marlon and Shawn Wayans will do it.

 

[harryoscop]

So let's see:
We got
Beauty & The Beast
The Little Mermaid
Mulan
Winnie The Pooh
Dumbo
Pinocchio...

stahp.

 

[Lencho01]

Put enough zeros on a cheque and Marlon and Shawn Wayans will do it.

And when they see all those zeroes, they'll be dancing and singing the song for sure.

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[Donnie Darko]

At this stage why not. They've kinda given up making anything new.

Tomorrowland

Loosely based on a concept, but entirely new story.

 

[Airwings]

I REALLY want this. It's much better than stop-motion. I wanna see real actors

 

[Donnie Darko]

I'm actually ok with these movies as long as they are more Cinderella and less Alice in Wonderland.

I never saw Maleficent, so I don't have an opinion on that one. I do think that some seen very odd and unnecessary (Dumbo and Pooh, as much as I love Pooh), but something like Beauty and the Beast may be fantastic.