The last time Pinocchio was made in unrecorded - activeness , Rotten Tomatoes crown it one of the bad films of the X . That ’s not run to occur with the next one . Star and producer Robert Downey Jr. has just recruited Paul Thomas Anderson to write and possibly even point a unexampled Pinocchio .
If you are n’t doing summersault from that name , let me refreshen your memory . Paul Thomas Anderson is the six - time Oscar nominated writer and director of Boogie Nights , Magnolia and There Will Be Blood . He ’s almost always associated with Oscar - menu , so for him to make out onboard a live - military action , family illusion motion-picture show like Pinocchio in any form is kind of incredible .
Downey Jr. , who ’ll play Geppetto and maybe even Pinocchio , has been attached to this Warner Bros.-based project for several years . In that time , he ’s had writer such as Bryan Fuller ( Hannibal ) and Jane Goldman ( Kick - Ass ) working on the film as well director Ben Stiller and Tim Burton in talks . The late draft is by Michael Mitnick , who save The Giver , and no film director is attached . Anderson ’s involvement intend if he and Downey can get the handwriting mightily , he may even direct . But to be fair , he ’s just the latest bighearted name on the project .
As this happens , Disney isalso developingits own resilient - action Pinocchio . So if the moving-picture show comes to realisation , it could be the 2d high - profile family title of respect getting made at both studio at the same time . Right now , Jon Favreau is doing a live - action mechanism Jungle Book film for Disney and Andy Serkis is doing one for Warner Bros. , each with absolutely astral , all - wiz casts . This kind of parallel thinking is what happens when live - military action family phantasy films like Maleficent , Cinderella and Alice In Wonderland make billions .
However , none of those films have arguable one of the best writers and film director working today along with the biggest boxful - office star in the mankind . Pinocchio could finish up being someone on a whole other level .
[ The Hollywood Reporter ]
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