NEWS – Nick Cave to Assist With Score for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Acclaimed Australian musician Nick Cave is reportedly attached to assist with the score for a new adaptation of the classic Pinocchio, which will be short in stop-motion 3-D. Deadline have revealed that the project will be co-written by Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and produced by the Jim Henson Company, whilst co-directed by Mark Gustafson and Gris Grimly, the latter having previously designed a book that became the inspiration for the feature.

But del Toro’s track record of delivering the projects he is attached to has been dubious of late, with adaptations of The Hobbit and Frankenstein having stalled early in pre-production. Regarding Cave’s involvement and the long process of writing the script, del Toro states; “Matthew (Robbins, co-writer) and I came back to it in 2008, we added some great ideas that made it funnier and livelier, and we enlisted the aid of Nick Cave. For me, it was most important to find that voice and a big part of that is the music of the movie. But I could not make the time to direct it myself.”

Cave has previously scored the soundtracks to The Proposition (which he also wrote the screenplay for) and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.