The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996 film) 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. The project then finally got off the ground. It was shot in Croatia, Prague, Český Krumlov, and High Force. For the character of Pinocchio, a complex animatronic puppet created by Jim Henson's Creature Shop was used with stop-motion. Pepe, the talking cricket, is computer-animated. One of the biggest changes in the filming was replacing Wallace Shawn, with David Doyle as the voice of Pepe the
Pinocchio: The Series Fortunately, the Oak Fairy is able to save him by scaring away the army and transforming the boy into a fully human child, though this means she will no longer be able to appear to him. The series was adapted into English in the 1990s by Saban Entertainment under the title Pinocchio: The Series (colloquial also known as "Saban's (The) Adventures of Pinocchio"). This version was shown in the United States on weekday mornings on HBO in 1992. A separate American version was created by Jim Terry ("Force Five"). Titled The Adventures of Pinocchio, it consisted of several episodes edited