Disney’s Live-ActionPinocchioPulls Some Strings and Nabs Its Cast

It ’s beenquite some timesince we learned thatTom Hankswas going to fiddle Gepetto in Disney’slive - action remakeof its animated 1940 Pinocchio movie . Now we at long last jazz the identity of the real male child who ’s going to fiddle the wooden son , along with the virtuoso playing Jiminy Cricket , the Blue Fairy , and more .

According to theHollywood Reporter , Joseph Gordon - Levittwill don the hat and spat of remark star - wisher and moral advisor Jiminy Cricket . Emmy- and Grammy - winning British actorCynthia Erivowill wield the wand of the Blue Fairy . Keegan - Michael Key will play Honest John , the con artist fox who betray Pinocchio to the puppeteer Stromboli , while Lorraine Bracco will voice a new character created for the pic , Sofia the Seagull . Finally , The Haunting of Bly Manor ’s Benjamin Evan Ainsworth , who also starred in the of late release Disney movieFlora & Ulysses , has gained the role of the habitual prevaricator / puppet .

Interestingly , THR tell Key and Bracco are voice the fox and the seagull , respectively , but that Gordon - Levitt has been vomit as the humanlike cricket . I might be read too much into this , but I do n’t suppose it would be too surprising for Disney to hire an A - list actor to be motion - captured for Jiminy , given how important the character is in the story .