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Disney has once more donned its Indiana Jones fedora and raided the archives for yet another film the studio once brought to life via animation to turn into a live-action adventure. Today’s discovery pulled into the light? Pinocchio.

The Mouse House has The Odd Life Of Timothy Green writer/director Peter Hedges aboard to craft a script that will once more follow the wooden boy as he wishes to become a real child, sees that come true and then has adventures. All the while being unable to tell a lie lest his nose grow.

It’s very early days for the new film, which like the 1940 original will be drawn from Carlo Collodi’s 1883 novel The Adventures Of Pinocchio. It joins fellow Disney conversion jobs already in the works including Dumbo, The Jungle Book, Beauty And The Beast, Winnie The Pooh and Mulan.

This one, though, faces competition from Guillermo del Toro, who has been attempting to bring a darker take on the story to life for a few years, looking to work on the film with Gris Grimly and Matthew Robbins. That one is still in development, but has a completed script and GDT has commissioned imagery for it. 

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It\'s getting a bit f**king stupid now! How many more Classic Animated Features do Disney wanna re-puke?!

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