This is what Tom Hanks looks like as “Geppetto” in the “live-action” of “Pinocchio”

The first image of “Pinocchio”, the next “live action” movie from Disney+ which will premiere exclusively on the streaming service in September 2022.

The award winner Oscar, Robert Zemeckis directs this live-action film that retells the beloved story of a wooden puppet, who goes on an exciting adventure to become a real boy. Tom Hanks plays “Gepetto”, the carpenter who builds and treats “Pinocchio” (Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) as if it were his own son.

For its part, Joseph Gordon-Levitt it is “Jimpe Cricket”, who officiates as Pinocchio’s guide and is like his “conscience”; Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo is “The Blue Fairy”; Keegan-Michael Key it is “Honest John”; Lorraine Braconominated for the Oscars, is “Sofia the Seagull”, a new character, and Luke Evans It is “The Coachman”.

The film is produced by Robert Zemeckis, Derek Hogue, Andrew Miano, Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz and is executive produced by Jackie Levine, Jack Rapke, Alexandra Derbyshire and Jeremy Johns.

The precedent of success of this classic story in the cinema dates back to 1940, the year in which Disney released the animated film that is also one of the first titles in his filmography. The plot follows the carpenter Gepetto and the wooden doll he named Pinocchio, who later becomes a real boy when a blue fairy proposes to fulfill his wish as long as he is kind, sincere and generous. However, along the way, he will have encounters with people with bad intentions that will influence him and lead him to lie more than once.

Disney’s efforts to bring the wooden doll to the big screen began between 2015 and 2017.