Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is finally a real wooden boy in first teaser

Director Guillermo del Toro and a model of his new take on Pinocchio.

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After years of being trapped in different circles of development hell, co-director Guillermo del Toro’s long-awaited take on _Pinocchio_is finally happening, and the stop-motion feature’s first teaser trailer is here to introduce the world to the story’s minuscule moral center.

Set during Benito Mussolini’s fascist reign over Italy in the 1930s, del Toro’s _Pinocchio_once again tells the tale of a wooden puppet who suddenly comes to life, much to his woodcarver “father’s” surprise. Unlike some of the other _Pinocchio_tellings you may be familiar with, though, this film’s Pinocchio (Gregory Mann) quickly gets into the sorts of cruel mischief that put him at odds with Geppetto (David Bradley), who loves his son but can’t help but see that he...