Disney’s endless parade of live-action remakes continues with an adaptation of 1940’s animated film Pinocchio headed to Disney Plus later this yr. In the newest trailer for the brand new film, we get a have a look at Tom Hanks’ Geppetto, and numerous CGI. The film was additionally directed by Robert Zemeckis, who’s reteaming with Hanks for the primary time since 2004’s Polar Express. Pinocchio is ready for launch on “Disney Plus Day,” the corporate’s annual day of previews and launch information. This yr, it falls on Sept. 8.

The trailer ought to definitely look acquainted to anybody who remembers the unique animated film. Toymaker Geppetto (who bought his personal disturbing film musical in 2000) creates a picket puppet named Pinocchio, although he appears much more like plastic on this trailer. Then Pinocchio involves life, and goals of being an actual boy. The puppet then goes on adventures, together with however not restricted to: hanging out with a cricket named Jiminy, getting offered to a circus, and getting swallowed by a whale.

Disney’s string of live-action diversifications of its animated classics began in earnest after the success of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland in 2010. Since then, the hassle has resulted in films of various high quality however undoubtable box-office success, with Aladdin, The Lion King, The Jungle Book, and Beauty and the Beast all crossing a billion {dollars} globally. The final a number of live-action remakes have gone straight to Disney Plus, identical to Pinocchio will. They embrace Mulan, Lady and the Tramp, and the hybrid launch Cruella.

Along with Hanks’ Geppetto, Pinocchio may even star Cynthia Erivo (Bad Times At the El Royale, The Outsider) as The Blue Fairy, who sings the basic Disney music “When you Wish Upon a Star” on this trailer. Other forged contains Luke Evans (Beauty and the Beast) because the Coachman, Keegan-Michael Key (Key and Peele) because the voice of Honest the fox, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (The Dark Knight Rises) because the voice of Jiminy Cricket.

Surprisingly, that is the third Pinocchio challenge at the moment on the way in which in a single type or one other. Along with Zemeckis’ Disney film, there’s additionally an adaptation of the unique Carlo Collodi kids’s novel coming from Guillermo del Toro at Netflix, and a baffling online game known as The Lies of P, which mixes Bloodborne-style fight with the story of picket doll with the rising nostril.