Disney+ revealed the premiere window for its live-action Pinocchio movie retelling while also confirming the film's main cast.
As part of its Disney+ Day event commemorating the service's second anniversary, the streamer officially announced the live-action Pinocchio will release in Fall 2022. Tom Hanks is starring as Gepetto, the kind yet lonely wood-carver, with Benjamin Evan Ainsworth voicing Pinocchio, the wooden puppet made by Gepetto who's magically brought to life and sets out on a journey to become a real, human boy.
Other now-confirmed cast members include Cynthia Erivo as the magical Blue Fairy who brings Pinocchio to life, as well as Luke Evans as the insidious Coachman who runs Pleasure Island. Joseph Gordon-Levitt also lends his voice to the film as Jiminy Cricket, the good-natured insect who acts as Pinocchio's "conscience" on his adventures, with Keegan-Michael Key voicing the trickster, anthropomorphic red fox "Honest" John Worthington Foulfellow, and Lorraine Bracco lending her vocals to Sofia the Seagull.
Pinocchio is largely based on Disney's classic 1940 animated film, which itself loosely adapted Italian author Carlo Collodi's 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio. Disney announced the remake in 2015, with Peter Hedges (The Odd Life of Timothy Green) working on the script. Paddington 1 and 2 helmer Paul King boarded the project in February 2018 before stepping down for personal reasons towards the end of that same year. Robert Zemeckis later replaced him as the movie's co-writer and director, reuniting the filmmaker with Hanks for the fourth time as a director after their collaborations on the Best Picture Oscar-winning Forrest Gump (1994), as well as the films Cast Away (2000) and The Polar Express (2004).
The Disney+ Pinocchio is one of two adaptations of Collodi's infamously weird fairy tale scheduled to begin streaming next year, along with Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion animated movie of the same name. Backed by Netflix, del Toro's Pinocchio takes place in Italy against the backdrop of Benito Mussolini and the National Fascist Party's reign during the 1930s. It is described as "a story of love and disobedience [about Pinocchio's] struggles to live up to his father’s expectations."
Zemeckis' Pinocchio streams exclusively on Disney+ in the fall of 2022. Netflix has yet to announce an official release date for del Toro's own re-imagining of the story.
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