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Pinocchio: Unstrung Filming Start & Release Window Revealed For Poohniverse Horror Movie

Summary

  • Pinocchio: Unstrung is the latest public domain horror movie announced by the team behind Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey and Bambi: The Reckoning.
  • The movie will be a horror retelling of Pinocchio that is teased in the end credits of Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2.
  • Additional details about the movie will be announced soon, including the cast and crew.

Pinocchio will be the character at the center of the latest public domain horror remake, Pinocchio: Unstrung. The version of Pinocchio that is perhaps the best known is the 1940 animated feature, which is the second movie in the Disney animated canon following their debut feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. However, the Disney movie is itself based on the 1883 Carlo Collodi children's book The Adventures of Pinocchio, which is in the public domain.

Per Blood and Honey 2. The movie, which is being produced by Rhys Frake-Waterfield and Scott Jeffrey, will have its cast and crew announced later, ahead of a summer production kickoff and a planned late 2024 release date. Below, see the movie's title treatment and a creepy Pinocchio drawing that will be featured in the end credits of Blood and Honey 2, alongside other drawings of as-yet-unannounced characters that will expand the universe.

Making A Pinocchio Horror Movie Isn’t So Much Of A Stretch

Monstro with its mouth open wide from Pinocchio

Pinocchio: Unstrung is part of a wave of public domain horror adaptations that have swept the market following the box office success of Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey. The team behind both movies is also working on Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare, but other creative teams are also getting in on the trend. Other movies in the subgenre include the Grinch slasher The Mean One, the competing Cinderella's Curse and Cinderella's Revenge, and the newly announced Mickey's Mouse Trap, which adapts the version of the titular character seen in Steamboat Willie, which recently entered the public domain.

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey earned $5.2 million off a budget of roughly $100,000.

While these movies thrive on making horrifying versions of iconic children's characters, Pinocchio: Unstrung will face challenges from the fact that the original story already contains quite a few horrifying elements. This includes a scene where Pinocchio and his friend Candlewick transform into donkeys, as well as the character the Terrible Dogfish, who inspired the rampaging whale Monstro in the Disney movie. While adapting either element might be outside the capabilities of the movie's budget level, they prove that it doesn't take much for the story to be perceived as horror.

In fact, Pinocchio has already been adapted into a horror movie prior to the announcement of Pinocchio: Unstrung. He was previously portrayed as a bloodthirsty slasher by Verne Troyer in the 1996 movie Pinocchio's Revenge. With this kind of legacy for the character already in place, it may be more difficult for the new 2024 horror movie to find the same kind of notoriety as Blood and Honey.

Source: Bloody Disgusting