{"id":21683,"date":"2022-09-08T11:50:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T09:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1704312"},"modified":"2022-09-08T12:12:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T10:12:14","slug":"pinocchio-on-disney-plus-changes-how-similar-is-it-to-the-original","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/pinocchio-on-disney-plus-changes-how-similar-is-it-to-the-original\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinocchio on Disney Plus changes: How similar is it to the original?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Patrick Cremona\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 08 September 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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The recent spate of Disney live-action\/CGI remakes have differed in how loyal they remain to their source material: for example, while Tim Burton\u2019s Dumbo changed a great deal from the 1941 animation, Beauty and the Beast more or less stuck to the script from the original.<\/p>\n

The latest film to get the remake treatment from the House of Mouse is Pinocchio<\/a>, with Robert Zemeckis directing a new version of the take of the wooden boy starring the likes of Tom Hanks, Luke Evans and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.<\/p>\n

But how closely does it stick to the tremendous 1940 animation? Read on for everything you need to know.<\/p>

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The new film is actually more or less a direct remake \u2013 with the script following just about the exact same narrative as the 1940 film, which itself actually differed rather a lot from it\u2019s Italian source material.<\/p>\n

Once again, Jiminy Cricket is the way into the story, and many other key moments \u2013 the emergence of the Blue Fairy to bring the puppet to life, the menacing appearance of Honest John to tempt Pinocchio, and the trip to Pleasure Island complete with nightmarish donkey transformations\u00a0 \u2013 all happen as they did in the first film.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe use the 1940 Disney version as a template and an outline for our story,\u201d Zemeckis explained in the film\u2019s press notes. \u201cSo it follows pretty much the same adventure that Pinocchio follows in the animated version. We modernise the storytelling because there was a different sort of pacing in movies then than there is now, but we basically kept the spirit and the tone and the theme of the first movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

That said, there are a couple of changes, including the addition of a new female puppet character and her owner Fabiana (Kyanne Lamaya) who likes to vicariously dance through her \u2013 as evidenced in one of the film\u2019s new musical numbers, I Will Always Dance.<\/p>\n

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In total, there are four new songs in the Pinocchio 2022 soundtrack<\/a> \u2013 all written and directed by Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard, including two sung by Tom Hanks as Geppetto and one by Luke Evans as the sinister Coachman.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, there are also a couple of changes to the surviving songs carried over from the original: whereas Jiminy Cricket sings the iconic When You Wish Upon a Star in the original version, here Cynthia Erivo\u2019s Blue Fairy performs it \u2013 with Zemeckis and co-writer Chris Wietz believing it made more sense from the standpoint of the story to have her sing it.<\/p>\n

Some other changes to the script include updating the dialogue to reflect the 21st Century \u2013 there\u2019s a name drop for Chris Pine and a mention of influencers, for example \u2013 while the scenes in Pleasure Island are also changed to reflect modern times.<\/p>\n