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Two del Toro Puppet Projects In Development

18 November 2008 1:05 AM, PST | From MovieBlog.Ugo.com | See recent Ugo MovieBlog news

Guillermo del Toro and Mike Mignola recently spoke with Bloody Disgusting about all things Hellboy as well as what Mr. Hobbit has lined up in his future. One project he’s really excited for is Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. “You know, I am really exited about Don’T Be Afraid Of The Dark, which is being directed by Troy Nixon.  The original TV movie that it’s based on was so scary when I was a kid. I think that the version that we are doing is really good! Also, I am really excited about Splice, which is a Vincenzo Natali [Cube] film - it’s a really new take on a monster movie.” He also mentions The Orphanage remake: “The remake of The Orphanage is shaping up to be really interesting, if it happens the way I think it will.” “We are trying to get a full

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More Details on del Toro's 'Pinocchio'

17 November 2008 8:29 PM, PST | From Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news

Last week, we told you that director Guillermo del Toro wanted to produce a new version of Pinocchio.

Today, Variety adds details and says the Jim Henson Co. will be on board for the darker interpretation of the classic Italian children’s tale. The film will be produced by Jhc presidents Brian Henson and Lisa Henson along with senior VP Jason Lust. Del Toro will exec produce since he’s busy until 2017.

The busy director is already working on the screenplay with Gris Grimly, who previously illustrated a version in 2002. Grimly and Adam Parrish King will co-direct the film which is estimated to require three years to produce using stop-motion techniques.

Robert Greenberger

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Guillermo Del Toro Dreams of Pinocchio as a Real Bad Boy

17 November 2008 12:21 PM, PST | From FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news

No, the Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth director isn't making gay porn. Yes, he is set to create a darker version of the classic tale, Pinocchio. Variety is reporting that Guillermo Del Toro, the filmmaker who loves all things fantasy, will be working with the Jim Henson Co. to make the popular ...

Adam Sweeney

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Del Toro Plans Pinocchio Movie

17 November 2008 11:03 AM, PST | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Hellboy director Guillermo Del Toro is in talks with puppeteers at the Jim Henson Co. to take fairytale Pinocchio to the big screen.

The Mexican filmmaker plans to add a dark spin to the children's story, and is working on a screenplay with Gris Grimly, who illustrated a 2002 animated version of Pinocchio.

During an interview with Bloodydisgusting.com, Del Toro reveals he expects the project to take three years to complete.

If it reaches the big screen, Del Toro will have gone one better than director Francis Ford Coppola, whose attempt to make a Pinocchio movie in the 1990s ended in a messy legal battle with Warner Bros.

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Del Toro Producing Pinocchio Movie

16 November 2008 10:13 PM, PST | From EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news

We’re not sure how he finds the time to even add projects to his slate, let alone make them, but Guillermo del Toro has gone and done it anyway, putting Pinocchio on his ever-growing to-do list.Because of prior commitments, including The Hobbit, Frankenstein, Drood and Lizard In A Blizzard, Del Toro will only be executive producing and co-writing this version. Well, we say only…This version of Carlo Collodi’s classic tale will be a world away from Disney’s colourful take – instead, it’ll be a darker story, told in stop-motion animation, with The Jim Henson Co. already on board. Brian Henson, Lisa Henson and Jason Lust will produce. The movie will be co-written and directed by Gris Grimly, who has experience with Pinocchio – he illustrated a version of the tale in 2002. "The idea came from Gris, and everybody loves his book about it,” Del Toro told Bloodydisgusting.

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Guillermo del Toro Producing Stop-Motion 'Pinocchio'

16 November 2008 2:03 PM, PST | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Either writer/director/producer/caterer Guillermo del Toro came across a gap in his schedule for the next five decades, he's allergic to rest, or he's afraid that Luc Besson might beat him to it, but the man has decide to act as executive producer on a stop-motion version of Pinocchio that he's developing with the Jim Henson Company.

Mind you, this is already in addition to his coming duties on The Hobbit, Frankenstein, Drood, next week's Rosenberg bar mitzvah over in Glendale, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and a couple of other projects as well (with any luck, a third Hellboy film is among them).

According to Variety, del Toro is currently working on the screenplay with Gris Grimly, whose strikingly illustrated children's books I've only very recently been introduced to, and Grimly will then co-direct with Adam Parrish King, he of much sound editing background (which really ought

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William Goss

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Grimly & Del Toro Hatch New Pinocchio

16 November 2008 3:12 AM, PST | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

Now here's some good news to brighten your weekend; a darker, more horror-friendly version of Pinocchio is being developed by Guillermo del Toro, The Jim Henson Company and Gris Grimly, according to Variety. Wow, with a team like that behind it, you know it’s going to be interesting if nothing else.

The project is being developed as a stop-motion animation film, with del Toro on as executive producer, Brian and Lisa Henson producing and the screenplay courtesy of del Toro and Grimly. Grimly and Adam Parrish King will co-direct the film, which will take about three years to finish.

Del Toro discussed the project with Bloody Disgusting a few days ago, and revealed that the idea of a more perverse Pinocchio came out of Grimly’s head, who dreamed up a tale that involved Pinocchio realizing upon his creation how much more fun it is to be bad than it is to be good,

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Johnny Butane

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Del Toro plans stop-motion 'Pinocchio'

15 November 2008 11:02 PM, PST | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Guillermo del Toro has revealed that he is developing a dark update of the Pinocchio fairy tale. The director is teaming up with the Jim Henson Company to make a stop-motion version of the story, which was animated by Walt Disney in 1940. A screenplay is currently being penned by del Toro alongside Gris Grimley, who produced his own take on the tale in 2002. "Everybody loves [Grimley's] book about it. The original story is far more perverse and spooky and [has a] semi-necrophilia vibe to it in certain aspects. (more)

By Michael Thornton

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Pinocchio is Returning to the Screen

15 November 2008 6:59 PM, PST | From TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news

The folks over at Bloody Disgusting recently broke the news that Guillermo del Toro is developing a stop-motion version of Pinocchio. The project has now been officially announced with Gris Grimly and Adam Parrish King signed on to co-direct the flick. Del Toro will produce and work on the screenplay with Grimly. The Jim Henson Company is teaming with Del Toro to develop the film, with Henson co-CEOs Brian Henson and Lisa Henson and senior vp of feature films Jason Lust on board to produce. The aim is to make a dark, twisted retelling of the famous Carlo Collodi fairy tale about the wooden puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy. In the retelling, when Pinocchio comes to life, he turns out not to be that nice of a boy, creating mischief and playing mean tricks. He eventually learns a few lessons. The story and the look of the

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James Cook

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Guillermo Del Toro's Nose Is Growing

15 November 2008 4:22 PM, PST | From cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news

Really, how seriously are we supposed to take any announcement of a project that Guillermo del Toro is working on? He's booked solid for the next decade, and yet, the guy just can't say no. The latest project bound to suffer from his neglect will be Pinocchio, a stop-motion feature he'll work on with the Jim Henson Muppet factory to make a darker version of the fairy tale we all know from Disney. Del Toro is executive producing as well as working on the screenplay, according to an interview he did with Bloody Digusting, so at least he doesn't seem to have a delusional belief that he has time to direct it. I don't want to suggest that I think del Toro should stop working on movies-- lord knows he's a one-of-a-kind visionary-- but it's hard to get excited when he's spreading himself too thin. I'd be pumped beyond belief

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Guillermo del Toro, Gris Grimly team for Pinocchio

14 November 2008 10:53 PM, PST | From Fangoria.com | See recent Fangoria news

What's the perfect film to add to your plate when you've already got The Hobbit, remakes of Frankenstein and Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde, and a book deal just announced? For Guillermo del Toro, it's Pinocchio. Variety confirms that Del Toro has been working on the screenplay with artist Gris Grimly, a Fangoria-fave who illustrated a 2002 childrens book based on the fable. The new film will be produced through the Jim Henson Co., with Brian & Lisa Henson overseeing with Jason Lust.

Grimly will co-direct the stop-motion film with Adam Parrish King (The Wraith Of Cobble Hill).

Keep your browser pointed to Fangoriaonline.com for more Pinocchio news as it develops!

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Guillermo del Toro Producing Dark 'Pinnochio' Adapatation

14 November 2008 8:23 PM, PST | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Maybe Guillermo del Toro will just turn entirely into Tim Burton and we can have the two be surgically joined at the hip and work on the same films forever as news now turns to the latest flick pasted to del Toro's producing filmography as Bloody-Disgusting reports he is now working with the Jim Henson Co. on a stop-motion feature adaptation of Pinocchio. The twist is that it will be "a darker version of the original fairy tale." Oooo, scary long nose man! Variety has expanded on the Bd report where del Toro revealed he is working on the screenplay with Gris Grimley, who illustrated a 2002 version of "Pinocchio" with news that Grimley and Adam Parrish King are set to co-direct the film. Sounds to me like del Toro is forming his own Tim Burton/Henry Selick team-up. It's an interesting choice to tackle, but with the Disney adaptation of

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Guillermo del Toro's 'Pinocchio' Officially Announced!

14 November 2008 5:37 PM, PST | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

We broke the news exclusively here on B-d this week that Guillermo del Toro would be producing a stop-motion animted version of Pinocchio, with popular artist Gris Grimly taking directing duties for Jim Henson. Today Variety updated our story with news that Del Toro's will work on the screenplay with Gris Grimly, who illustrated a 2002 version of "Pinocchio." Adam Parrish King will co-direct the film with Grimly. Click here to read all about the project, and for a long synopsis. In Grimly's version of Pinocchio, once there was a lonely woodcutter named Geppetto-who dreamed of having a boy of his own. So one day he carved a boy out of wood and named him Pinocchio.When the puppet comes to life, it's Geppetto's dream come true.Except Pinocchio turns out to be not such a nice boy after all....

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'Pinocchio' added to Guillermo del Toro's Crowded Plate

14 November 2008 8:59 AM, PST | From Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news

Director Guillermo del Toro told Bloody Disgusting that he is producing Gris Grimly’s directorial debut, a new version of Pinocchio.

"We are trying to get a full stop-motion version of Gris Grimly’s Pinocchio off the ground, with the Jim Henson Company," del Toro told the site while promoting the DVD release of Hellboy II: The Golden Army. "The idea came from Gris, and everybody loves his book about it. The original story is far more perverse and spooky and semi-necrophilia vibe to it in certain aspects. Gris certainly has that vein in him, he wants to do this with that original spookiness in it, we are trying to get it going. The Jim Henson Company is the behind it and we are currently working on the screenplay! It’s not coming to a screen near you any time soon, even if it were to begin today it would

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Robert Greenberger

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Guillermo del Toro, Gris Grimly Team For Stop-Motion "Pinocchio"

13 November 2008 11:21 AM, PST | From Latemag.com/film | See recent LateFilmFull news

As if Pinocchio wasn't weird and scary enough, it's about to get the stop-motion overhall by none other that Late Film-officiated honourable duo, Guillermo del Toro and Gris Grimly. Del Toro is, of course, the Mexican director behind my supernatural fave, The Devil's Backbone, and Gris Grimly is a resident here for Cannibal Flesh Riot! (you can see the trailer for this stop-motion-embalmed short here.)

Well, amongst other big news for the Hellboy 2: The Golden Army DVD/Blu-ray launch party, news is this gruesome twosome are to unite for "trying to get a full stop-motion version of Gris Grimly’s Pinocchio off the ground, with the Jim Henson Company." Praise be and Amen to that superb news and lets hope these two great talents pull together to make this a reality. Certainly some of the more exciting film news of late and always a pleasure to see a bit of originality in proceedings.

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Guillermo del Toro's Two Full Puppet Projects - Pinocchio Included!

13 November 2008 9:03 AM, PST | From firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news

With Guillermo del Toro working on writing and pre-production for The Hobbit, one would've thought it would be impossible for him to be thinking about anything else. Well, Bloody Disgusting brings us some news to the contrary today and shares some details on two new projects that weren't even on his Roadmap to 2017. The interesting thing is that both of them are puppet based projects - which is quite timely considering Hellboy II just hit DVD and the entire opening sequence to that film was done with puppets. First up, Guillermo confirms that he's trying to get a full stop-motion version of Gris Grimly's Pinocchio into production, and second, that he's got a full-scale puppet movie of his own in the works. Guillermo explains, "We are trying to get a full stop-motion version of Gris Grimly's Pinocchio off the ground, with the Jim Henson Company. The idea came from Gris,

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Alex Billington

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Del Toro's puppets

13 November 2008 8:00 AM, PST | From JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news

Those ghouls over at "Bloody Disgusting" recently caught up with furry Mexican visionary Guillermo Del Toro and he dropped some interesting news on two puppet-themed films that he's added to the ten thousand or so projects he has in the pipeline. First of all, he's apparently looking to adapt Grim Grisly's twisted take on "Pinocchio". He mentioned: "We are trying to get a full stop-motion version of Gris Grimly.s Pinocchio off the ground, with the Jim Henson Company....

Omar Aviles

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Guillermo del Toro Wants to Pull Pinocchio's Strings

13 November 2008 5:40 AM, PST | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

About six weeks ago, it was announced that Guillermo del Toro had a full schedule of movies that would take him through 2017.

Between The Hobbit films and a host of remakes (Frankenstein, Slaughterhouse-Five), and others, del Toro was going to be very, very busy. In fact, I think he's probably spreading himself a little too thin, knowing the scopes of most of these projects.

But he's still thinking about what else he can do, including a stop-motion Pinocchio and a feature length film...starring puppets.

"We are trying to get a full stop-motion version of Gris Grimly’s Pinocchio off the ground, with the Jim Henson Company," Del Toro told Bloody-Disgusting. "The original story is far more perverse and spooky and [has a] semi-necrophilia vibe to it in certain aspects. Gris certainly has that vein in him, he wants to do this with that original spookiness in it, we are trying to get it going.

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A Noir Puppet Movie?

16 October 2008 12:27 PM, PDT | From Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news

In an act that almost feels like it should have the name "Joss Whedon" attached to it, the Jim Henson Company has announced the development of a new film project called The Happytime Murders. This original film noir murder mystery will fall under the company's Henson Alternative banner, a division that develops projects not intended for children (such as Puppet Up! and Tinseltown). From writer Todd Berger:

"In a world where humans and puppets live together (not exactly in harmony), the puppet cast of an '80s children's TV show called The Happytime Gang begins to get muderered one by one. It's then up to a disgraced puppet Lapd detective turned private eye to take the case. Based on a story Dee Austin Robertson and Todd Berger, the original feature film will feature the well-known Henson style of irreverence and parody while presenting a unique twist on the film noir genre.

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Matt Raub

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Jim Henson Co. Goes Noir?!

15 October 2008 12:02 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Muppet fever is in the air these days. Jason Segel got The Jim Henson Co. to help him whip up those awesome puppets for Forgetting Sarah Marshall. That led to the funny man getting the honor of making a new Muppet movie. And now we're getting more Hensonesque film awesomeness. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the company is going to the adult world of film noir.

Oh yes -- they've whipped up a murder mystery called The Happytime Murders (written by Todd Berger from a story created with Dee Austin Robertson), and Brian Henson will direct it. In this tale of adult puppet goodness, there's an alternate world where puppets and humans co-exist -- but not exactly peacefully -- the puppets are considered second-class citizens. The murder comes in when "the puppet cast of an '80s children's TV show called 'The Happytime Gang' begins to get murdered one by one,

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Monika Bartyzel

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