Hey folks, Harry here... while I am not the biggest Benigni fan in the world... (I didn't care for THE MONSTER or LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL) I do look forward to his films as I see the potential to possibly one day like one of his films... even though this has not yet happened. There have been moments and pieces I've loved, but no complete work for me. Usually there is something that just drives me crazy angry at some point in his films and I just get aggravated and throw my hands in the air and get snortin angry... But here's the latest on his interpretation of PINNOCHIO which Miramax is funding apparently...
Buona sera Harry! :)
Here some news about Benigni's upcoming project, Pinocchio. Roberto Cerami, co-screenwriter along with Benigni of Life is Beautiful, talked about "Pinocchio" in an interview given to Italian online magazine IlNuovo (www.ilnuovo.it). Cerami and Benigni have just finished the second draft for the much anticipated movie.
Cerami says the duo have been dreaming about making this movie for a long time, and now they have the chance to make it. Cerami says it's gonna be a very complex movie, very expensive [by italian standards] and full of visual special fx. The movie is coming to theaters next year. Pinocchio will be shot in Papigno, the same town in Umbria (central Italy) where Life is Beautiful was filmed. Benigni and Cerami have been writing Pinocchio's script in a secret location.
They won't reveal anything about the plot: this has happened before with all Benigni's previous movies, but this time there's one more reason: it seems Miramax is putting quite a lot of money in this project, and they don't want anyone or anything to spoil the movie before its release (it is clearly said in the contract). When asked about the differences between Benigni's Pinocchio and the Disney's animated movie, he said: "It's very different. The Disney movie was a very american version of the story and it had nothing to do with the original (written by Italian Carlo Collodi between 1881 and 1883).
The americans [at Miramax] that were given our script were stunned, because they hadn't read Collodi's Pinocchio. They really thought the real Pinocchio was the one portrayed by Disney".
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