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Guillermo del Toro to develop The Buried Giant for Netflix after Pinocchio success

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John Parsons

Published Jan 25, 2026

Following the outcome of Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, the productive chief is good to go to get back with one more enlivened film, a variation of The Covered Monster. The film will likewise be produced for Netflix.

Guillermo del Toro will purportedly follow a similar example for The Covered Monster as he accomplished for Pinocchio and has previously enrolled the assistance of the stop-movement liveliness studio ShadowMachine. The Oscar-designated variation of Carlo Collodi’s youngsters’ novel has previously gotten more than adequate applause and basic approval because of its visual style and narrating ability.

The Bureau of Interests maker previously wandered into stop-movement liveliness with the transformation of the Carlo Collodi novel.

While insights regarding Guillermo del Toro’s forthcoming endeavor are as yet restricted, there is a long list of reasons to be invigorated, as the movie producer uncovered that he has proactively begun chipping away at a content with Dennis Kelly. The film will be a transformation of the dream novel of a similar name by Nobel Prize-winning English essayist Kazuo Ishiguro.

The narrative of the novel follows an older English couple, Axl and Beatrice, who live in a made up post-Arthurian Britain where nobody can hold long haul recollections. In the wake of hypothesizing that they might have a child, several endeavors out to track down him.

Considering that del Toro will add his special wind to the story, it ought to be a drawing in film. The chief as of late put out an announcement about the film, saying:

“The Covered Monster proceeds with my liveliness organization with Netflix and our quest for stop-movement as a medium to recount complex stories and fabricate boundless universes. It is a significant privilege and more prominent obligation regarding me to coordinate this screenplay which Dennis Kelly and I are adjusting from Kazuo Ishiguro’s significant and creative book.”
Netflix Film Administrator Scott Stuber added to this, saying:

‘THE BURIED GIANT’ has been greenlit Netflix. This is Guillermo del Toro’s next stop-motion animated film.

It follows an elderly couple living in a fictional post-Arthurian England in which no one is able to retain long-term memories.

— Cartoon Base (@TheCartoonBase) February 24, 2023


Pinocchio, which del Toro coordinated with Mark Gustafson, became one of the most worshipped movies of 2022, stowing Oscar designations and acquiring awards across the globe. The film had previously won del Toro the BAFTA for best energized film a couple of days prior. It was likewise among the main 10 movies in almost 100 nations.

The gathering was very characteristic of Netflix’s supported organization with Guillermo del Toro.