The Adventures of Pinocchio Carlo Collodi

The story has been adapted into many forms on stage and screen, some keeping close to the original Collodi narrative while others treat the story more freely. There are at least fourteen English-language films based on the story, Italian, French, Russian, German, Japanese and other versions for the big screen and for television, and several musical adaptations.

Films

• The Adventures of Pinocchio (1911), a live-action silent film directed by Giulio Antamoro, and the first movie based on the novel. Part of the film is lost.
• The Adventures of Pinocchio (1936), a historically notable, unfinished Italian animated feature film.
• Pinocchio (1940), the widely known Disney animated film, considered by many to be one of the greatest animated films ever made. It is the best-known adaptation of the novel, thanks in part to containing elements that would be used in later adaptations such as Pinocchio being more innocent and good-natured, the Talking Cricket being reworked into a friend and sidekick to Pinocchio, Mangiafuoco being a straight villain, the Fox and the Cat being the ones responsible for most of the story's events, and the Terrible Dogfish being replaced by a whale.
• Le avventure di Pinocchio (1947), an Italian live action film with Alessandro Tomei as Pinocchio.
• Pinocchio in Outer Space (1965), Pinocchio has adventures in outer space, with an alien turtle as a friend.
• Turlis Abenteuer (1967), an East German version; in 1969 it was dubbed into English and shown in the US as Pinocchio.
• The Adventures of Pinocchio (1972), Un burattino di nome Pinocchio, literally A puppet named Pinocchio, an Italian animated film written and directed by Giuliano Cenci. Carlo Collodi's grandchildren, Mario and Antonio Lorenzini advised the production.
• The Adventures of Buratino (1975), a BSSR television film.
• Si Boneka Kayu, Pinokio (1979), an Indonesian movie.
• Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night (1987), an animated movie which acts as a sequel of the story.
• Pinocchio (1992), an animated movie by Golden Films.
• The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996), a film by Steve Barron starring Martin Landau as Geppetto and Jonathan Taylor Thomas as Pinocchio.
• The New Adventures of Pinocchio (1999), a direct-to-video film sequel of the 1996 movie. Martin Landau reprises his role of Geppetto, while Gabriel Thomson plays Pinocchio.
• A Tree of Palme (2002), a Japanese animated movie based on the story by Takashi Nakamura.
• Pinocchio (2002), a live-action Italian film directed by, co-written by and starring Roberto Benigni.
• Pinocchio 3000 (2004), a CGI animated Canadian film.
• Bentornato Pinocchio (2007), an Italian animated film directed by Orlando Corradi, which acts as a sequel to the original story. Pinocchio is voiced by Federico Bebi.
• Pinocchio (2012), an Italian-Belgian-French animated film directed by Enzo D'Alò.
• Pinocchio (2015), a live-action Czech film featuring a computer-animated and female version of the Talking Cricket, given the name, Coco, who used to live in the wood Pinocchio was made out of.
• Pinocchio (2019), a live-action Italian film co-written, directed and co-produced by Matteo Garrone. It stars child actor Federico Ielapi as Pinocchio and Roberto Benigni as Geppetto. Prosthetic makeup was used to turn Ielapi into a puppet. Some actors, including Ielapi, dubbed themselves in the English-language version of the movie.
• Pinocchio: A True Story (2022), an animated Russian film. Gained infamy in the west for an English-dub by Lionsgate featuring the voices of Pauly Shore, Jon Heder, and Tom Kenny.
• Pinocchio (2022), a live-action film based on the 1940 animated Pinocchio.[15] directed and co-written by Robert Zemeckis.[16]
• Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022), a stop-motion musical film co-directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson.[17] It is a darker story set in Fascist Italy. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
• Pinocchio: Unstrung (TBA), a live-action horror reimagining of the story in development by Jagged Edge Productions and set in the same universe as Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey.

Television

• Spike Jones portrayed Pinocchio in a satirical version of the story aired 24 April 1954 as an episode of The Spike Jones Show.
• Pinocchio (1957), a TV musical broadcast live during the Golden Age of Television, directed and choreographed by Hanya Holm, and starring such actors as Mickey Rooney (in the title role), Walter Slezak (as Geppetto), Fran Allison (as the Blue Fairy), and Martyn Green (as the Fox). This version featured songs by Alec Wilder and was shown on NBC. It was part of a then-popular trend of musicalizing fantasy stories for television, following the immense success of the Mary Martin Peter Pan, which made its TV debut in 1955.
• The New Adventures of Pinocchio (1960), a TV series of 5-minute stop-motion animated vignettes by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass. The plots of the vignettes are mainly unrelated to the novel, but the main characters are the same and ideas from the novel are used as backstory.
• The Prince Street Players' musical version, starring John Joy as Pinocchio and David Lile as Geppetto, was broadcast on CBS Television in 1965.
• Pinocchio (1968), a musical version of the story that aired in the United States on NBC, with pop star Peter Noone playing the puppet. This one bore no resemblance to the 1957 television version.
• The Adventures of Pinocchio (1972), a TV mini-series by Italian director Luigi Comencini, starring Andrea Balestri as Pinocchio, Nino Manfredi as Geppetto and Gina Lollobrigida as the Fairy.
• Pinocchio: The Series (1972), also known as Saban's The Adventures of Pinocchio and known as Mock of the Oak Tree (樫の木モック, Kashi no Ki Mokku) in Japan, a 52-episode anime is an animated series produced by Tatsunoko Productions. It has a distinctly darker, more sadistic theme, and portrays the main character, Pinocchio (Mokku), as suffering from constant physical and psychological abuse and freak accidents.
• In 1973, Piccolo, a kaiju based on Pinocchio, appeared in episode 46 of Ultraman Taro.
• Pinocchio (1976), still another live-action musical version for television, with Sandy Duncan in a trouser role as the puppet, Danny Kaye as Geppetto, and Flip Wilson as the Fox. It was telecast on CBS, and is available on DVD.
• Piccolino no Bōken (1976 animated series) Nippon Animation
• Pinocchio no Boken (1979 TV program) DAX International
• Pinocchio's Christmas (1980), a stop-motion animated TV special.
• A 1984 episode of Faerie Tale Theatre starring Paul Reubens as the puppet Pinocchio.
• The Adventures of Pinocchio was adapted in Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child where it takes place on the Barbary Coast.
• Geppetto (2000), a television film broadcast on The Wonderful World of Disney starring Drew Carey in the title role, Seth Adkins as Pinocchio, Brent Spiner as Stromboli, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as the Blue Fairy.
• Pinocchio (2008), a British-Italian TV film starring Bob Hoskins as Geppetto, Robbie Kay as Pinocchio, Luciana Littizzetto as the Talking Cricket, Violante Placido as the Blue Fairy, Toni Bertorelli as the Fox, Francesco Pannofino as the Cat, Maurizio Donadoni as Mangiafuoco, and Alessandro Gassman as the original author Carlo Collodi.
• Once Upon a Time (2011), ABC television series. Pinocchio and many other characters from the story have major roles in the episodes "That Still Small Voice" and "The Stranger".
• Pinocchio appeared in GEICO's 2014 bad motivational speaker commercial, and was revived in 2019 and 2020 for its Sequels campaign.
• Pinocchio (2014), South Korean television series starring Park Shin-hye and Lee Jong-suk, airs on SBS starting on November 12, 2014, every Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes. The protagonist Choi In-ha has a chronic symptom called "Pinocchio complex," which makes her break into violent hiccups when she tells lies.
• The Enchanted Village of Pinocchio (Il villaggio incantati di Pinocchio), an Italian computer-animated television series which premiered in Italy on May 22, 2022, on Rai YoYo.

Other books

• Mongiardini-Rembadi, Gemma (1894), Il Segreto di Pinocchio, Italy{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link). Published in the United States in 1913 as Pinocchio under the Sea.
• Cherubini, E. (1903), Pinocchio in Africa, Italy{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
• Lorenzini, Paolo (1917), The Heart of Pinocchio, Florence, Italy{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
• Patri, Angelo (1928), Pinocchio in America, United States{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
• Della Chiesa, Carol (1932), Puppet Parade, New York{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
• Tolstoy, Aleksey Nikolayevich (1936), The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino, Russia{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link), a loose adaptation. Illustrated by Alexander Koshkin, translated from Russian by Kathleen Cook-Horujy, Raduga Publishers, Moscow, 1990, 171 pages, SBN 5-05-002843-4. Leonid Vladimirsky later wrote and illustrated a sequel, Buratino in the Emerald City, bringing Buratino to the Magic Land that Alexander Melentyevich Volkov based on the Land of Oz, and which Vladimirski had illustrated.
• Marino, Josef (1940), Hi! Ho! Pinocchio!, United States{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
• Coover, Robert (1991), Pinocchio in Venice, novel, continues the story of Pinocchio, the Blue Fairy, and other characters.
• Dine, James ‘Jim’ (2006), Pinocchio, Steidl, illustrations.
• ———— (2007), Pinocchio, PaceWildenstein.
• Winshluss (2008), Pinocchio, Les Requins Marteaux.
• Carter, Scott William (2012), Wooden Bones, novel, described as the untold story of Pinocchio, with a dark twist. Pino, as he's come to be known after he became a real boy, has discovered that he has the power to bring puppets to life himself.
• Morpurgo, Michael (2013), Pinocchio by Pinocchio Children's book, illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark.
• London, Thomas (2015), Splintered: A Political Fairy Tale sets the characters of the story in modern-day Washington, D.C.
• Bemis, John Claude. Out of Abaton "duology" The Wooden Prince and Lord of Monsters (Disney Hyperion, 2016 and 2017) adapts the story to a science fiction setting.
• Carey, Edward (2021), The Swallowed Man tells the story of Pinnochio's creation and evolution from the viewpoint of Geppetto

Theater

• "Pinocchio" (1961-1999), by Carmelo Bene.
• "Pinocchio" (2002), musical by Saverio Marconi and musics by Pooh.
• An opera, The Adventures of Pinocchio, composed by Jonathan Dove to a libretto by Alasdair Middleton, was commissioned by Opera North and premièred at the Grand Theatre in Leeds, England, on 21 December 2007.
• Navok, Lior (2009), opera, sculptural exhibition. Two acts: actors, woodwind quintet and piano.
• Le Avventure di Pinocchio (2009) musical by Mario Restagno.
• Costantini, Vito (2011), The other Pinocchio, musical, the first musical sequel to 'Adventures of Pinocchio'. The musical is based on The other Pinocchio, Brescia: La Scuola Editrice, 1999, book. The composer is Antonio Furioso. Vito Costantini wrote "The other Pinocchio" after the discovery of a few sheets of an old manuscript attributed to Collodi and dated 21/10/1890. The news of the discovery appeared in the major Italian newspapers.[18] It is assumed the Tuscan artist wrote a sequel to 'The Adventures of Pinocchio' he never published. Starting from handwritten sheets, Costantini has reconstructed the second part of the story. In 2000 'The other Pinocchio' won first prize in national children's literature Città of Bitritto.
• La vera storia di Pinocchio raccontata da lui medesimo, (2011) by Flavio Albanese, music by Fiorenzo Carpi, produced by Piccolo Teatro.
• L'altro Pinocchio (2011), musical by Vito Costantini based on L'altro Pinocchio (Editrice La Scuola, Brescia 1999).
• Pinocchio. Storia di un burattino da Carlo Collodi by Massimiliano Finazzer Flory (2012)
• Disney's My Son Pinocchio: Geppetto's Musical Tale (2016), a stage musical based on the 2000 TV movie Geppetto.
• Pinocchio (2017), musical by Dennis Kelly, with songs from the 1940 Disney movie, directed by John Tiffany, premiered on the National Theatre, London.

Cultural influence

• Totò plays Pinocchio in Toto in Color (1952)
• The Erotic Adventures of Pinocchio, 1971 was advertised with the memorable line, "It's not his nose that grows!"
• Weldon, John (1977), Spinnolio, a parody by National Film Board of Canada.[19]
• The 1990 movie Edward Scissorhands contains elements both of Beauty and Beast, Frankenstein and Pinocchio.
• Pinocchio's Revenge, 1996, a horror movie where Pinocchio supposedly goes on a murderous rampage.
• Android Kikaider was influenced by Pinocchio story.
• Astro Boy (鉄腕アトム, Tetsuwan Atomu) (1952), a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka, recasts loosely the Pinocchio theme.[20]
• Marvel Fairy Tales, a comic book series by C. B. Cebulski, features a retelling of The Adventures of Pinocchio with the robotic superhero called The Vision in the role of Pinocchio.
• The story was adapted in an episode of Simsala Grimm.
• Spielberg, Steven (2001), A.I. Artificial Intelligence, film, based on a Stanley Kubrick project that was cut short by Kubrick's death, recasts the Pinocchio theme; in it an android with emotions longs to become a real boy by finding the Blue Fairy, who he hopes will turn him into one.[21]
• Shrek, 2001, Pinocchio is a recurrent supporting character.
• Shrek the Musical, Broadway, December 14, 2008{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
• A Tree of Palme, a 2002 anime film, is an interpretation of the Pinocchio tale.
• Teacher's Pet, 2004 contains elements and references of the 1940 adaptation and A.I. Artificial Intelligence.
• Happily N'Ever After 2: Snow White Another Bite @ the Apple, 2009 Pinocchio appears as a secondary character.
• In The Simpsons episode "Itchy and Scratchy Land", there is a parody of Pinocchio called Pinnitchio where Pinnitchio (Itchy) stabs Geppetto (Scratchy) in the eye after he fibs to not to tell lies.
• In the Rooster Teeth webtoon RWBY, the characters Penny Polendina and Roman Torchwick are based on Pinocchio and Lampwick respectively.
• He was used as the mascot for the 2013 UCI Road World Championships.[22]

Video Games

• Lies of P (2023), a Soulslike video game loosely based on the story and characters of the novel.[23]