Pinocchio trailer: Netflix drops full first-look at Guillermo del Toro’s fairy tale adaptation

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28 Jul 2022, 09:48

Netflix has released the first trailer for their highly-anticipated Pinocchio adaptation. 

Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson are behind the eerie new take on the fairy tale, which is due out on the streaming service in December. 

Ewen McGregor plays Sebastian J Cricket, who will narrate the story of the wooden boy, and he joins Tilda Swinton’s blue feathered Fairy.

This version of Pinocchio is a far cry from the Disney animation we know and love, and instead takes its inspiration from Frankenstein. 

From the trailer, it seems this adaptation might still leave a lump in our throats, with an emotional opening monologue from Cricket. 

He says: “From my many wanderings on this earth, I had so much to say about imperfect fathers and imperfect sons. About loss and love.

Watch the trailer below: 

“I want to tell you a story. It’s a story you may think you know, but you don’t. The story of the wooden boy.”

The star-studded cast also includes Stranger Things' Finn Wolfhard, Burn Gorman, David Bradley, Ron Perlman, Cate Blanchett and Christoph Waltz.

Speaking to Vanity Fair about his take on the classic tale, director del Toro said: “I’ve always been very intrigued by the links between Pinocchio and Frankenstein. They are both about a child that is thrown into the world.

“They are both created by a father who then expects them to figure out what’s good, what’s bad, the ethics, the morals, love, life, and essentials, on their own. I think that was, for me, childhood. You had to figure it out with your very limited experience.”

He continued: “These are times that demand from kids a complexity that is tremendous. Far more daunting, I think, than when I was child.

"Kids need answers and reassurances... For me, this is for both children and adults that talk to each other. It tackles very deep ideas about what makes us human."

Pinocchio is set to premiere on Netflix from December.