Thursday, November 27, 2008

Guillermo Del Toro, Gris Grimley collaborating for grim stop-motion "Pinocchio"

The director of the dark fairy-tales "Pan's Labyrinth" and "The Devil's Backbone" may be collaborating with a gruesome artist to bring a new vision of "Pinocchio" to life. Reportedly, the medium used will be stop-motion animation, and if Gris Grimley's nightmarish artwork for the original story by Carlo Collodi is any indication, the resulting film will probably be a little less of wishing upon a star and more of clinging to your theater seat's armrests with terror at all the weird stuff going down before your be-dazzled orbs.

Here's the link, complete with art. Already I'm hopeful that this could be an excellently dark fairytale that's scarier than anything Tim Burton's ever done.

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