Can't get enough of Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson's stop-motion film? Then Netflix is doing you a solid.
, written by Gina McIntyre and free for all to consume. McIntyre’s been a longtime author of art books and companion pieces for movies, with his bibliography including books forNightmare Alley.
Along with concept art of the characters, certain scenes, and promotional material , the book includes a foreword from del Toro himself. “My life has been supported by two essential myths: Frankenstein and Pinocchio,” begins the foreword. “Both are father-son stories. Both are about oddities learning to navigate the ways of the world in search of their own humanity. That, in a nutshell , is my entire life. [...] I knew I didn’t want Pinocchio to transform into a flesh-and-blood boy—I just wanted him to teach the world to see him as one.