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Why Pinocchio is pulling everyone’s strings
With three films due this year, we explore Hollywood’s ongoing obsession with a small wooden puppet
I’m your puppet: Guillermo del Toro
Pinocchio:
A
True
Story
PINOCCHIO, THE LITTLE boy who started off as a humble block of wood, never had it so good: there are three cinematic versions coming to life this year. Pinocchio: A True Story, a Russian animated feature by Vasiliy Rovenskiy, is out in May; Robert Zemeckis’ live-action take, with Tom Hanks as Geppetto, is rumoured to hit Disney+ this summer; while Guillermo del Toro’s stop-motion film reaches Netflix in December.