With ‘Pinocchio,’ Guillermo del Toro Makes a Childhood Dream Come True

For a long time—decades, really—Guillermo del Toro thought his stop-motion Pinocchio movie would never get made. The studios didn’t understand his ambition to adapt the classic tale into a version where the wood boy would have to die multiple times, and del Toro gets it. “I understand how an executive’s head would explode,” he tells Vanity Fair. For years, he carried around this story, hoping to find a home for it. And it wasn’t until Netflix agreed to back the project that it finally came to fruition, resulting in a magical and emotional story, which he co-directed with Mark Gustafson…. Read Full Article