“Pinocchio”: Netflix reveals the first teaser of the Guillermo del Toro version | VIDEO

Sweetness in stop-motion. That is what “Pinocchio” brings us, the adaptation of Guillermo del Toro that will come to streaming this year. Being in love with animation has borne fruit for the Mexican director who returns to work with Netflix for the musical film that was announced in 2018 and finally has a release month: December of this year.

The Oscar winner reimagines Carlo Collodi’s classic children’s story “The Adventures of Pinocchio”, and is very excited to do his own version of the drawing from Gris Grimly’s 2002 design for the reissue of the book. “No art form has influenced my life and work more than animation and no character in history has had as deep a personal connection with me as Pinocchio,” Del Toro told the media at the announcement of the Netflix film in 2018.

“In our story, Pinocchio is an innocent soul with an uncaring father who gets lost in a world he can’t understand. He embarks on an extraordinary journey that leaves him with a deep understanding of his father and the real world. I’ve wanted to make this movie for as long as I can remember. After the incredible experience we’ve had with ‘Trollhunters,’ I’m grateful that the talented team at Netflix is ​​giving me the opportunity of a lifetime to introduce audiences everywhere to my version of this strange puppet turned into a real boy.” Del Toro added.

In the Netflix preview, Sebastián J. Grillo (Ewan McGregor) appears, the cricket who will narrate the story. “I’m going to tell you a story, which you probably think you already know, but you don’t. Not really. (…) I was there and I lived, I really lived, in the heart of the wooden boy”, says the character as he walks straight towards a window and then jumps through it.

In addition, the musical will also feature the participation of David Bradley (Geppetto), Gregory Mann (Pinocchio) and other actors in supporting voices, such as Finn Wolfhard, John Turturro, Cate Blanchett, Tim Blake Nelson, Ron Perlman and Burn Gorman, among others. others.