As if Pinocchio wasn't weird and scary enough, it's about to get the stop-motion overhall by none other that Late Film-officiated honourable duo, Guillermo del Toro and Gris Grimly. Del Toro is, of course, the Mexican director behind my supernatural fave, The Devil's Backbone, and Gris Grimly is a resident here for Cannibal Flesh Riot! (you can see the trailer for this stop-motion-embalmed short here.)

Well, amongst other big news for the Hellboy 2: The Golden Army DVD/Blu-ray launch party, news is this gruesome twosome are to unite for "trying to get a full stop-motion version of Gris Grimly’s Pinocchio off the ground, with the Jim Henson Company." Praise be and Amen to that superb news and lets hope these two great talents pull together to make this a reality. Certainly some of the more exciting film news of late and always a pleasure to see a bit of originality in proceedings. We ate Late Film will most certainly be watching this space...