The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today’s great screen artists.
Today’s subject is Guillermo del Toro, the Mexican-born writer/director/producer whose stop-motion animated film,is a frontrunner for the Best Animated Feature. As painstakingly generated as it is breathtaking, the stop motion tale of the famed wooden boy takes a decided detour from the iconic Disney film, even though they both used the Carlo Collodi story as reference.