Paul Thomas Anderson Is Writing A Live-Action Pinocchio Movie Starring Robert Downey Jr.

Live-action retellings of classic stories are all the rage – Maleficent, Wicked, Pan , Tink , The Little Mermaid , Cinderella (twice), Jungle Book , etc. – but I never expected to see Paul Thomas Anderson involved with one. Yet here he is in today’s Hollywood Reporter , attached to write (“with an eye to direct”!) Pinocchio, starring Robert Downey Jr., for Warner Bros.