Netflix has unveiled a new behind-the-scenes feature highlighting the complex puppetry in Guillermo del Toro's new animated stop-motion Pinocchio film.

Revealed during the Tudum: A Netflix Global Fan Event on Sept. 24, the behind-the-scenes featurette sees del Toro speak on his love for the puppetry medium and explain how the creative team approached working on Pinocchio. "I really wanted this movie to land in a way that had the expressiveness and the material nature of a handmade piece of animation," he said in the video. "An artisanal, beautiful exercise in carving, painting [and] sculpting, but it had the sophisticational movement that research on rigs and puppetry making have taken us to."

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The video goes on to show the different sizes puppets involved with the film's production, some of which are larger than a human being and some of which can fit in the palm of one's hand. "Pinocchio is a tale that has lived through the centuries," del Toro said. "[It's] a fable very close to my heart and we are very sure this iteration is a particularly beatiful one."

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Based on Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio fantasy novel from 1883, del Toro's Pinocchio has been in the works for over a decade. While the project was considered dead for a time, Pinocchio found new life in 2018 when del Toro announced the film would be released through Netflix. "Obviously, Pinocchio has a big section in a carnival," Del Toro previoulsy said of the film when comparing it to 2021's Nightmare Alley, which he also directed. "And there's strange little echoes between the two, and Pinocchio deals with a different thematic. Pinocchio is about what makes a human a human, and what makes a human a puppet or a puppet a human."

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Pinocchio -- which is not to be confused with director Robert Zemeckis' live-action Pinocchio film, a remake of the Disney animated film from 1940 starring Tom Hanks and Joseph Gordon-Levitt that released onto Disney+ on Sept. 8 -- stars the voices of Gregory Mann as Pinocchio, Ewan McGregor as Sebastian J. Cricket, David Bradley as Geppetto, Christoph Waltz as Count Volpe, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Ron Perlman, Finn Wolfhard, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson and Burn Gorman.

Co-directed by del Toro and Mark Gustafson, Pinocchio releases in select theaters on Nov. 25 before it hits Netflix on Dec. 9.

Source: Netflix