Poster for the film 'The Adventures of Pinocchio', 1996.

''The Adventures of Pinocchio' is a 1996 fantasy family film based on Carlo Collodi's original novel of the same name co-written and directed by Steve Barron. The film features Martin Landau, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Rob Schneider, Udo Kier, Bebe Neuwirth, David Doyle and Geneviève Bujold.

Nearly ten years before the film was eventually made, Director Steve Barron and Jim Henson were considering the idea of a live-action version of Pinocchio. They approached Disney with this idea, but Disney turned down the project. Years later, producer Lawrence Mortorff President of Kushner Locke sent Barron a script for a film based on the Carlo Collodi novel.