Continuing his passion for the weird and fantasy, Guillermo del Toro is set to produce a stop-motion version of Gris Grimly’s Pinocchio.

Grimly is a LA-based artist and storyteller who is known for his darkly whimsical story books. One of them is a take on the famous wooden boy whose nose gets bigger when he lies.

"The idea came from Gris, and everybody loves his book about it,” said del Toro. “The original story is far more perverse and spooky and semi-necrophilia vibe to it in certain aspects. Gris certainly has that vein in him, he wants to do this with that original spookiness in it, we are trying to get it going.”

Grimly himself is set to direct the feature. The Jim Henson Company is supporting the film and is currently working on the screenplay.