Disney nailed Geppetto, but I can’t wait for Ewan McGregor as the Cricket on Netflix.
In case you missed it, there are three different movies about Pinocchio, the puppet who wants be a real boy, coming out this year.
Disney’s live-action adaption of their 1940 movie Pinocchio is coming to Disney+ in September.
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Netflix’s Pinocchio will be a stop-motion animated adaptation of Carlo Collodi’s novel The Adventures of Pinocchio, directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson. It’ll hit Netflix in December.
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Because all these movies are working with basically the same basic plot and characters, here’s a rundown of who’s tackling each role in each movie:
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If there’s not a picture of the character included with the actor, it’s because the studio hasn’t released pictures of them yet!
First off, Disney’s Pinocchio will be voiced by Benjamin Evan Ainsworth.
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That’s him in The Haunting of Bly Manor on the right.
Netflix has cast Gregory Mann to voice their title role.
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This is Gregory in the 2018 film The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, so just imagine him four years older. Or don’t — it’s a voice role.
And if you’re wondering who made Pinocchio’s voice quite so “yassified” in Lionsgate’s adaptation, it’s Pauly Shore.
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For Pinocchio’s father/creator Geppetto, Disney has cast Tom Hanks.
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Netflix picked David Bradley to voice their Geppetto.
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And Tom Kenny (the voice of SpongeBob) will voice Geppetto in the Lionsgate version.
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Jiminy Cricket will be played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Disney’s version of Pinocchio.
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In Netflix’s version, he’ll be named Sebastian J. Cricket and voiced by Ewan McGregor.
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And in Pinocchio: A True Story, there’s no cricket, but Pinocchio is guided by his talking horse Tybalt, voiced by Jon Heder.
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Cynthia Erivo will play the Blue Fairy in Disney’s Pinocchio.
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Tilda Swinton will play the Fairy with Turquoise Hair in Netflix’s Pinocchio.
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And Pinocchio: A True Story has a fairy named Lucilda, but I cannot find any information on the rest of the English voice cast.
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She has a parrot. I’m going to just talk about the Disney and Netflix ones now.
The Coachman with the donkeys will be played by Luke Evans for Disney.
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And Tim Blake Nelson for Netflix.
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For Disney, Keegan-Michael Key will play the Fox.
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And for Netflix, it’ll be Christoph Waltz.
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That’s most of what we know of the Disney cast, but Netflix has announced plenty of other famous voices like Finn Wolfhard, Cate Blanchett, and Ron Perlman.
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Now we all have to eagerly wait for new trailers and release dates so that we can plan our Pinocchio (2022) movie marathons.