Every studio turned down 'Pinocchio' film, says Guillermo del Toro

Filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro has revealed he approached every big studio in Hollywood to pitch his idea for a dark 'Pinocchio' movie.

The Oscar-winning director said he ended up at Netflix when everyone else turned down his stop-motion musical project.

''I went to every studio in Hollywood and they all said no, so whoever says yes, I will make it with that person," Del Toro told the Hollywood Reporter at the Marrakech Film Festival.

The director said he had a hard time selling his remake of the Italian children's novel "The Adventures of Pinocchio" because the project is set to be a dark political parable set ''during the rise of Mussolini''.

''It's not a Pinocchio for all the family. Of course (it is political). 'Pinocchio' during the rise of Mussolini, do the math. A puppet during the rise of fascism, yes, it is (political).'