Here is the first teaser of Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

How many times can you tell a classic story like that of Pinocchio? Apparently an infinite number of times, at least as evidenced by the latest version in chronological order, the one imagined by Guillermo del Toro for Netflix. The director of The Labyrinth of the Faun and The Shape of Water has for years guarded this project which he now realizes together with co-director Mark Gustafson. Its CGI animated adaptation takes inspiration from the illustrations of the American artist Gris Gimly and, as can be seen from the first official teaser released in these hours, it will adopt a darker approach than we are used to, trying to make a fairy tale even more contemporary. timeless like this.

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As you feel in the preview clip, Ewan McGregor voices Sebastian J. Cricket, or the talking cricket that lives first in the trunk that Geppetto knocks down to create his puppet and then in the wooden heart of the puppet himself: "In my many wanderings on this Earth I have a lot to say about imperfect fathers and imperfect children, about love and on loss ”, says Cricket:“ I learned that there are ancient spirits that rarely mix with the world of humans, but from time to time they do ”. And then: "This is a story you think you know, but it isn't: the story of a wooden child." In fact, del Toro's version takes a more political approach, placing the birth of Pinocchio in a period history in which the shadow of the dictatorship is mounting, with an authoritarian and threatening Podestà, to whom Ron Perlman gives the voice, and who would like to transform anyone into obedient puppets.

“Pinocchio is recruited in a military village because the Podestà thinks that if the puppet cannot die then he can become a perfect soldier”, revealed the director to Vanity Fair, alluding to the deepest thematic heart of the story. However, the magic of Collodi's original story will also remain intact and there will be many great actors who will lend their voices to the English dubbing, from Tilda Swinton who will be the Blue Fairy to Cate Blanchett who instead will voice the Sp Equipment monkey, by Christoph Waltz alias the Fox to David Bradley who will be Geppetto. This new Pinocchio will hit theaters in November and then debut on Netflix in December, in time for the holidays. But before that, in September, we'll see yet another Pinocchio, the live-action version of Robert Zemeckis inspired by the Disney classic, starring Tom Hanks and Luke Evans. Which of the two films will be able to enchant the public the most?