Guillermo del Toro will bet on a disobedient Pinocchio in his version for Netflix

the mexican director William of the Bull affirmed this Friday that he opted for a rebellious and disobedient version of “Pinocchio”, in his new animated film about this classic character, which will be released in December of this year.

“I was very interested that it was not in favor of good manners and the structure of most of the ‘pinochos’, that if you are disobedient it is bad, this (character bets on) that it is good to be disobedient and not follow ordersI do not believe in that transformation, I believe that to be who you are you do not have to betray your nature”he said in a virtual chat.

Del Toro, winner of the Oscar for best director in 2018 for his multi-award winning film “The Shape of Water”, had a video talk as part of the Guadalajara International Film Festival that concludes tomorrow in this city, capital of the state of Jalisco and of the who is a founder.

The director gave details of the film that was shot in the United States and Mexico and assured that his new film “could not be more personal” and he cared about touching on themes such as love, death and what it means to be human.

“What matters to me is if it moves me, if it makes me laugh, if it makes me cry, if I understand it; The film could not be more personal, it obviously has to do with life, death, love, (about) what it is to behave like a puppet, and what it is to behave like a human being”he emphasized.

The film is an animated musical using the ‘stop motion’ technique, set in Mussolini’s Italy, based on the classic story by Carlo Collodi, and was directed by Del Toro and the American Mark Gustafson.

Del Toro said that it took him 15 years to finalize this project, which is a return to his origins in the cinema, when he made clay animation shorts in Super 8 format together with his friend Rigoberto Mora.

The feature film involved 20 animators and more than 60 sets, a part of which was based in Guadalajara, del Toro’s hometown and where he founded “El taller del Chucho”, a production space to promote local talent through international projects in ‘ stop-motion’.

“It is more complicated for us to have filmed in Guadalajara but it was worth it for me, because the love I have for animation is not a passing thing, Super 8 was my first love and it is to defend the origin of what I believed was cinema and for me it has been a very long return, for 14 years I considered an idea that I have already managed to do”he detailed.

The Guadalajara International Film Festival continues until this Saturday with a wide selection of 166 films both in its official competition and in parallel programs.

Almost a hundred films are part of the official selection in competition in the fiction and documentary short and feature film categories in both the Mexican and Ibero-American sections, in addition to the program of animated films, sexual diversity and a new film section socio-environmental.