Eighty years after its historic cartoon version, Disney is giving Pinocchio a facelift.
The remake, like those of
The Jungle Book
or
Beauty and the Beast,
is offered this time in live action: the production mixes real actors and the most realistic computer graphics possible.
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In the first trailer released this week, no images of the famous wooden doll, but a melancholic Tom Hanks as Geppetto, desiring more than anything the animation of his puppet.
We also see some of the other characters: Jiminy Cricket, dubbed in VO by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and the blue fairy, played by Cynthia Erivo, who brings Pinocchio to life.
Keegan-Michael Key portrays the Big Rascal while Luke Evans, seen in
Beauty and the Beast
, plays the villain.
Robert Zemeckis, director, finds Tom Hanks, whom he knows well for having directed him several times and in particular in
Forest Gump
in 1994.
Pinocchio
is the adaptation of the Italian novel
The Adventures of Pinocchio
by Carlo Collodi, written in 1881 and adapted for the screen for the first time by Disney in 1940. The story is that of the carpenter Geppetto, who makes a puppet and the raises like his child.
Pinocchio longs to be a "real boy" and leaves his "father's" house to achieve this dream.
The remakes of the adventures of the puppet have multiplied in recent years.
The long-awaited adaptation by Matteo Garrone
(Gomorrah)
suffered from a release on the eve of the pandemic and was ultimately only released, in most countries, through the Amazon Prime platform.
This year Netflix unveiled the trailer, also dark, of the version concocted by Guillermo del Torro.
As for the Disney production, it should be closer to the 1940 original, to the delight of fans of the puppet who could not lie.
