How Two Recent Pinocchio Movies Demonstrate A Hollywood Trend

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How Two Recent Pinocchio Movies Demonstrate A Hollywood Trend
31 Aug 2022
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Pinocchio's upcoming release is eagerly anticipated by many movie fans. Others, though, are less disturbed and far more enthusiastic about the upcoming Pinocchio release. Both Disney and Netflix will release their own versions of the well-known story of the child whose nose grows when he lies over the course of the next four months. Tom Hanks plays Geppetto in Disney's live-action adaptation of the beloved animated classic, which is directed by Robert Zemeckis.

In contrast, Netflix's version is a stop-motion animated movie The Shape of Water's directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. Ewan McGregor will play Jiminy Cricket in this. The production of Del Toro's movie took an unusually long time. He declared his plans to produce Pinocchio 14 years ago, but he had trouble finding funding for the project. In 2017, he finally announced the film's cancellation.

The project was revived, though, when Netflix announced they would be picking it up the next year. The fact that it is currently colliding with Disney, which has recently been making live-action remakes of some of its most classic films, including Aladdin, Mulan, and The Lion King, is purely coincidental.

Obviously, Pinocchio has been adapted for the big screen a number of times since the iconic 1940 film, which was based on Carlo Collodi's 1883 children's novel. But why does Hollywood release twin films so frequently—two movies that are not just about the same subject, but also frequently come out at the same time?

Luke Hearfield, a film and awards season YouTuber, says that "There are numerous reasons for it, sometimes it really is just coincidence, two people having the same idea at the similar time. " But I think now it's happening more than ever because we're living in the content era, more and more movies are being pumped out, so there's bound to be people having similar ideas." He added.

 

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