Nyuma y '"imiterere y'amazi" yo muri 2017, yakiriye ibishushanyo 4 Oscar Del Toro azagaruka ku ntebe y'akarere mu mushinga wa Pinocchio, aho yandikanye inyandiko hamwe na Mariko Robbins. Filime izabaho mu Butaliyani yashimye muri 1930. Kuri firime, yatangaje nk'igipupe, umushinga watumiwe mu buryo butunguranye umubare munini w'abakinnyi b'inyenyeri.
Walder Frey kuri "Umukino w'intebe" David Bradley yatanze ikiganiro cyiza kuri urubuga rwa Polonye na Ekraine, rwasangiraga urutonde rwabasirikare batumiwe. Ku bwe, Ron Perlman, Tilda Suintan, Christoph Waltz na Yuen McGrego azakora kuri film. Mu kiganiro, ntabwo yavuwe, ni izihe nshingano mu bakinnyi bazakora.
Icyubahiro kizwi kururu rutonde rutanga urwibutso, gishobora kwitwa umukinnyi ukunda del Toro. Perlman yafashwe amashusho muri ikivandimwe, "ubutaka bwa pasifika", kandi yitabira urukurikirane rwa animasiyo "Abahiga ba Croll". David Bradley yakundaga gushora muri del toro mu ruhererekane rwa "Strain".