Guillermo Del Toro and Mark Gustafson on GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO

Kermode on Film

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🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode of the MK3D show Mark Kermode talks to a director who is a legend in his own lifetime: Guillermo Del Toro, together with his co-director for the stop-motion animation musical about Pinocchio, Mark Gustafson.

GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO released at the end of 2022 is based on Carlo Collodi's novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio, about the wooden puppet who comes to life as the son of his carver, Geppetto. Set in Fascist Italy, the characters are voiced by Gregory Mann as Pinocchio and David Bradley as Geppetto, alongside Ewan McGregor, Ron Perlman, John Turturro, Cate Blanchett, Tim Blake Nelson, Christopher Waltz and Tilda Swinton.

Pinocchio was the final film credited to Gustafson before he passed away in 2024.

This episode of Kermode On Film is the second half of the MK3D show recorded live at the BFI Southbank on 23 January 2023.

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