Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio trailer introduces a version of the tale unlike any other
Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Gregory Mann, Tilda Swinton, and more star in Netflix's stop-motion take on the classic tale

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Move over, Disney, there’s a new Pinocchio in town. The trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s take on the classic tale is here, and the gorgeously rendered stop-motion animation couldn’t be more different than the 1940 cartoon or the upcoming live-action remake.
Ewan McGregor’s Sebastian J. Cricket sums up the thesis of the Netflix film quite nicely: “From my many wanderings on this earth, I had so much to say about imperfect fathers and imperfect sons, and about loss and love.” Gepetto (David Bradley) is a woodcarver mourning the death of his son, so he carves a puppet out of a tree growing above the boy’s grave. An “old spirit” gives the puppet life, and thus Pinocchio (Gregory Mann), “the wooden boy with the borrowed soul,” is born.