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I saw the image on Facebook. It's so surprising to see Pinocchio has the same design as in the animation.

Did they release a trailer as well?

No, they didn't. The film is getting released in September, so it's too soon for a trailer.

I thought so. But some of those pics looked like screencaps from a trailer, so I thought I'd ask

It was not a trailer, but a presentation clip of various upcoming movies, like Pinocchio, Peter Pan, Red, Hocus Pocus 2, Avatar 2, etc.

Sotiris wrote:

Disney Duster wrote:Hey, is Luke Evans in both this and Peter Pan and Wendy?!!

No, he's just in Pinocchio. Jude Law is in Peter Pan & Wendy.

Oh ok thank you.

bruno_wbt wrote:It was not a trailer, but a presentation clip of various upcoming movies, like Pinocchio, Peter Pan, Red, Hocus Pocus 2, Avatar 2, etc.

Gotcha, thank you

Disney Duster wrote:

Sotiris wrote: No, he's just in Pinocchio. Jude Law is in Peter Pan & Wendy.

Oh ok thank you.

Luke Evans as Captain Hook would've been great. But it may just be I've never been too crazy about Jude Law. I mean, he's not bad or anything, he's just sort of there in everything I've seen him.

Sotiris wrote:

Disney Duster wrote:Hey, is Luke Evans in both this and Peter Pan and Wendy?!!

No, he's just in Pinocchio. Jude Law is in Peter Pan & Wendy.

This probably has already been mentioned, but it's curious that Luke Evans is going to play two villains in these live-actions remakes; first Gaston and now the coachman here.

By the way, I realized later that there's a precedent of keeping practically the same designs as in the original in 2018's Christopher Robin. Only that in that case it wasn't exactly a remake, but more of a sequel. Probably, that's why I didn't have a problem with that there.

Up next for the production designer is his frequent collaborator Robert Zemeckis’ live-action adaptation of Pinocchio for Disney+, which he says has wrapped production. “It’s fantastic. I love working with Bob, and it was really cool,” he says. “I think it’s going to be pretty darn great.”

Source: https://deadline.com/video/stefan-decha ... ion-value/

Hocus Pocus will be released on September 30.
Disenchanted will be released on Thanksgiving.

Do you think this means that Pinocchio will be released on Christmas?

Well, Hocus Pocus will be released at the end of September, so I think it's still possible Pinocchio premieres at the beginning of that month. But your comment made me realize something; both Disenchanted and Strange World are slated for Thanksgiving. Though one is a streaming movie and the other a theatrical one, I don't think Disney would release both on the same weekend, which means that Strange World will probably be postponed.

Yeah, never mind, just realized that Disney has already announced it's coming out this September:
https://twitter.com/DisneyStudios/statu ... txmKA&s=19

D82, I don't think there's a correlation between theatrical releases and Disney+ releases. Disney needs to put out content for streaming every month otherwise they lose subscribers. Most likely Strange World will be released on Disney+ on Christmas like Encanto did.

Farerb wrote:D82, I don't think there's a correlation between theatrical releases and Disney+ releases. Disney needs to put out content for streaming every month otherwise they lose subscribers. Most likely Strange World will be released on Disney+ on Christmas like Encanto did.

Well, maybe you're right. I think the finale of some Marvel show coincided with the release of a theatrical movie from the company or at least was very close to it, but I don't remember two Disney films opening on the same weekend, one in theaters and the other on streaming. If both were very different kinds of movies, I could see them doing it, but these two have the same target audience. It's true that it's not a normal weekend, though, and family films tend to do well on Thanksgiving, so who knows, but I'll be a bit surprised if this is confirmed. I guess we'll soon find out, since we'll get more info about Strange World when it is presented at Annecy.

The teaser trailer will be released tomorrow on Good Morning America. A sneak peek at it gives us our first look at what Jiminy Cricket and the Blue Fairy will look like in the film:

The Blue Fairy's dress looks better with the effects added, but still not as good as the original. The hairstyle though is so bad. It looks like she's gone bald. They should have had Cynthia wear a shoulder-length blonde wig instead. Jiminy is not that bad, I guess. Kinda creepy-looking, but that's to be expected with CG characters in these remakes.

I agree completely with Sotiris.

D82 wrote:

Kill it now before it's too late!

^ If he didn't have those green, leefy layers on his face and if his eyes were a bit smaller, he wouldn't have looked look so uncanny. I guess the filmmakers didn't learn anything from the process Walt's animators went through to get to the appealing final design of Jiminy.

The Blue Fairy is supposed to be beautiful, not bald. I predict a Dumbo level bomb.
I’ll stick with the 1940 version.

I'd have preferred if the Blue Fairy's dress hadn't been toga-like, but otherwise, both images look fine to me? I guess the toga look was part of making the Blue Fairy look more pagan here as in the story (and the way fairies were traditionally thought of) than the more angel-like take of the Walt film, but I think she looks pretty. Her expression definitely has the same cold, slightly unsettling feeling the Blue Fairy had in the animated film (at least for me).