Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes (American Beauty) is in talks to direct the upcoming live action Pinocchio film for Disney, according to Deadline.
Mendes is known for directing the 1999 film American Beauty, for which he won the Oscar for Best Director.
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The original Pinocchio, based on the 1883 novel ‘The Adventures Of Pinocchio’ by Carlo Collodi, first debuted in theaters in 1940 and won two Academy Awards.