Carlo Collodi

It was funny because they were

thematic to Christmas, right? Like, if you can show me a bunch of Pinocchio kills that you somehow utilize the world and story of Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio, that'd be really fun.

Wow, what a...

Yeah,

one thing I discovered that could be considered maybe trivia.

Yeah.

It is the second horror film based on The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi since Pinocchio's Revenge 1996, 30 years earlier.

What?

Yeah

... by Carlo Collodi.

It sold more than 80 million copies.

Just in front of Pinocchio is one of my favorites, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

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Carlo Collodi's story-

Wow

... and inverted it in a, in a way that is-

Uh-huh.

It's an adaptation of Carlo Collodi's 1883 novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio, but with a crucial twist that the main character in this is Geppetto, who I think most people would acknowledge is the least interesting character in Pinocchio.

Yeah, just a guy.

But this film seeks to answer the question, what was Geppetto up to the whole time-

[laughs] Um, yeah, okay.

Right.

So the thing that I like about adaptations of Pinocchio is that the story of Pinocchio, the Carlo Collodi stories, I think are basically unadaptable.

They hail from an era and, and a place of, and a style of storytelling that is...