Warner Bros has announced plans to make a live-action Pinocchio movie.
Producer Dan Jinks will head up the project, bringing in Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller to write the screenplay. Jinks has revealed that Tim Burton’s recent 3D re-working of Alice In Wonderland will provide inspiration for his Pinocchio.
“I think we’ve found a fresh approach that’s going to be very entertaining,” Jinks told Variety.
Pinocchio, a wooden puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy, first appeared in Carlo Collodi’s 1883 story The Adventures Of Pinocchio. Walt Disney produced the most famous big-screen incarnation of the story in 1940, while the last adaptation starred Roberto Benigni and was released in 2002.