From puppet to giant: Guillermo del Toro does not stop and after a re-adaptation of Pinocchio He is already working on his next films. It will still be one of them in stop motion and once again the Oscar-winning director has fished out of the world of literature with both hands.
As he himself said in an interview with The Telegraph (via Collider), after that Karl Collodi decided on a Nobel Prize in Literature, ie Kazuo Ishiguro. “The next stop-motion film I do – he said – will adapt The Buried GiantI write it down Dennis Kelly and we will start the design process in the next few months». However, before I work on this film, “I’m going to shoot a live-action first.”
In the meantime he is developing a look book: “Hopefully we will start shooting in about two years”. Published in 2015, The Buried Giant is the seventh novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, set in post-Roman England reign of King Arthur. The protagonists mix elements of the Middle Ages and fantasy Axl and Beatrice, an elderly couple who leaves his community in search of his missing and forgotten son.
A type of story that Guillermo del Toro has recently shown that he can handle very well, considering that even in his Pinocchio fatherhood and the loss of a son have become central. But also fundamental in Ishiguro’s novel is the loss of memory and the search for memory, a theme that develops through flashbacks throughout the chapters.
Between the fantastic and the imaginative, there are all the elements to suggest the director of Pan’s Labyrinth and Hellboy can be at his best again. Writing it together with him is the screenwriter Matilda The Musicalbased on the classic book by Roald Dahl.
Meanwhile, eyes are on the next Oscars, where Guillermo del Toro could win his third statuette after the two he received The shape of the water. His adaptation of Pinocchio deserves to be considered a win Best Animated Film? Tell us yours in the comments.
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Source: Telegraph
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