Paul Thomas Anderson is writing the screenplay for Warner Bros. and Team Downey’s retelling of “Pinocchio.”
Although Anderson has only been hired to pen the script, there;s a possibly he could direct the movie as well, seeing that the director has hardly ever just written a movie without also directing the project.
Michael Mitnick penned the most recent draft and Downey, along with his wife and producing partner Susan Downey, will produce along with Dan Jinnks.
Downey is onboard to play Geppetto in the tale about a wooden puppet who wants to become a human boy. Downey has been developing the project for some time but has held off given Disney’s surge of live-action retellings of animated classics and fairy tales but Anderson’s attachment should get the wheels moving quickly on this priority at the studio.
The film marks the first project Anderson has worked on since “Inherent Vice,” which also earned Anderson and Oscar nomination for his screenplay.
Source: Variety