When is Netflix’s Pinocchio available to watch?

By Flora Carr

Published: Wednesday, 26 January 2022 at 12:00 am

Guillermo del Toro fans won’t have too much longer to wait for his next project – stop-motion animated musical Pinocchio, which will soon be landing on Netflix, it has been confirmed.

With a starry voice cast featuring Ewan McGregor, Cate Blanchett, and Tilda Swinton, del Toro’s adaptation of the famous fairytale will (naturally) have a darker slant and will be set during the rise of Fascism in Mussolini’s Italy.

“No art form has influenced my life and my work more than animation and no single character in history has had as deep of a personal connection to me as Pinocchio,” del Toro said in a statement when the film was given the go ahead back in 2018. “In our story, Pinocchio is an innocent soul with an uncaring father who gets lost in a world he cannot comprehend. 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.”

Hollywood Ron Perlman will voice the character Mangiafuoco, a theatre director and puppet-master better known to Walt Disney viewers as Stromboli.

The star told RadioTimes.com: “I’m pretty excited about how [del Toro] set the film, where he set the film, the socio-political implications of the use of this sort of made-up boy, make-believe boy. You know, well, once again, it’s del Toro, the mind of del Toro working in ways that no one else would think of.”

Here’s everything you need to know about the Netflix stop-motion adaptation of Pinocchio.