{"id":1815,"date":"2012-01-08T21:02:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T01:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puppeteers.org\/?post_type=puppet_news&#038;p=1815"},"modified":"2013-05-15T22:41:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T02:41:25","slug":"tim-burtons-pinocchio-del-torros-pinocchio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/2012\/01\/08\/tim-burtons-pinocchio-del-torros-pinocchio\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Burton&#8217;s Pinocchio?  Del Torro&#8217;s Pinocchio?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been in the news lately that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/news\/story.asp?NID=32814\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Burton is in talks with Warner Brothers<\/a> to direct a live action movie of <em>Pinocchio<\/em>. \u00a0And it looks like Robert Downey Jr. *might* play Geppeto. \u00a0The script is being written by Bryan Fuller (<em>Pushing Daisies, Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls<\/em>) &#8211; and if you&#8217;re a fan of those three shows like me, you might just be hopeful for a great film. \u00a0Don&#8217;t let us down guys.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">AND<\/span> while doing research on the Burton film, I learned that \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0868219\/\" target=\"_blank\">Guillermo del Toro<\/a> has announced that he&#8217;s directing an adaptation of <em>Pinocchio<\/em> as well &#8211; except his will be stop-motion animation, working with the Jim Henson Company. \u00a0Slated for release in 2014. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/News\/story.asp?nid=30202\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Henson is quoted<\/a> saying &#8220;Stop-motion animation will be a new style of telling this well-known tale, a hand-crafted style with which we were eager to work since it requires a high level of artistry and craftsmanship that is similar to the work of The Jim Henson Company,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both films sound like they have potential for greatness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been in the news lately that Tim Burton is in talks with Warner Brothers to direct a live action movie of Pinocchio. \u00a0And it looks like Robert Downey Jr. *might* play Geppeto. \u00a0The script is being written by Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies, Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls) &#8211; and if you&#8217;re a fan of those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"page.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1013],"tags":[1068,2054,1042],"class_list":{"0":"post-1815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-puppet-headlines","8":"tag-jim-henson-company","9":"tag-pinocchio","10":"tag-puppet-films","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}