‘Pinocchio’ comes to life on Disney + with Oscar winners Tom Hanks, Robert Zemeckis!

Burbank, California – “Pinocchio” first entered the hearts of moviegoers in 1940. Now 82 years later, there’s a remake starring Tom Hanks and directed by Academy Award-winning Robert Zemeckis. The two previously worked together on “Forrest Gump”. “Tom and I have a shortcut,” Zemeckis said. I mean, Tom said to me in the past, ‘I always know we’re going to do another one depending on how I hear you say a broken word. “ Hanks says Walt Disney wanted to make great movies… so Zemeckis was the right guy to…

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Disney+ brings ‘Pinocchio’ to life thanks to work of young actor Benjamin Evan Ainsworth!

In the final take on the classic story “Pinocchio,” we see Tom Hanks as Geppetto, hear Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Jiminy Cricket, and as the voice of the title role…young actor Benjamin Evan Ainsworth. Or as Hanks called him on set, “Ben Uchio.” Ainsworth is happy to help bring a new story into the familiar story. “I think it’s faithful to the ’40s version, but it also has, like, some new stuff, exciting stuff and some new songs, maybe new songs, maybe some new characters,” Ainsworth said. “I don’t want to…

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