You learn something new every day.
Twitter is reacting while watching the 2021 Oscars, airing live on Sunday (April 25).
Among the many categories of awards presented throughout the night, one is now getting significant attention on social media, as people are just now realizing the existence of one movie in particular: 2019′s live-action Pinocchio.
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The cast of Disney’s live-action Pinocchio is coming together!
A few stars joined the cast today including Cynthia Erivo as the Blue Fairy and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Jiminy Cricket!
Also announced today, according to THR, are Benjamin Evan Ainsworth as the voice of Pinocchio, and Keegan-Michael Key as the voice of Honest John, and Lorraine Bracco as the voice of Sofia the Seagull, a new character.
Tom Hanks will be portraying the role of Geppetto. The movie is set to begin production this month and will debut at a later date on Disney+.
This Pinocchio project is not to be confused with a completely separate Pinocchio project in the works that has a totally different (yet still star-studded) cast!
Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is hard at work on a Pinocchio movie for Netflix and the star-studded cast has been revealed!
The new adaptation of the classic tale will be a stop-motion animated musical movie. Set during the rise of Fascism in Mussolini’s Italy, del Toro‘s Pinocchio is a story of love and disobedience as Pinocchio struggles to live up to his father’s expectations.
Newcomer Gregory Mann is playing the title role, Ewan McGregor will play Cricket, and Harry Potter‘s David Bradley is Geppetto.
Also in the cast are Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Christoph Waltz, Finn Wolfhard, John Turturro, Ron Perlman, Tim Blake Nelson, and Burn Gorman.
“After years of pursuing this dream project, I found my perfect partner in Netflix,” Guillermo said in a statement. “We have spent a long time curating a remarkable cast and crew and have been blessed by continuous support from Netflix to quietly and carefully soldier on, barely missing a beat. We all love and practice animation with great passion and believe it to be the ideal medium to retell this classic story in a completely new way.”
Guillermo is directing the movie with Fantastic Mr. Fox‘s Mark Gustafson. He wrote the script with Patrick McHale and the song lyrics with Katz, with music by Alexandre Desplat, who also is writing the score.
Find out which Oscar winner will be starring in Disney’s live-action adaptation of Pinocchio.
It has just been announced that classic film Pinocchio will be made into a live action movie by Disney, according to Deadline!
The film’s script will be written by Peter Hedges, who is known for his work on The Odd Life of Timothy Green and About a Boy.
Pinocchio isn’t the only film getting a live-action adaptation, Jungle Book, Beauty in the Beast, and Winnie the Pooh are all going through the same treatment.
Disney has decided to capitalize after the huge success of their latest adaptation of Cinderella, which has grossed $400 million worldwide.
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