Guillermo del Toro to adapt The Buried Giant for Netflix

Veteran director Guillermo del Toro will develop a stop-motion adaption of  Nobel Prize-winning British writer Kazuo Ishiguro's fantasy novel The Buried Giant for Netflix. 

The Buried Giant follows an elderly couple living in a fictional post-Arthurian England where no one can retain long-term memories.

Directed and produced by Del Toro, The Buried Giant adaptation will have the script penned by Del toro along with  Dennis Kelly. Pinocchio's animation studio ShadowMachine will again reteam with Del Toro for the upcoming project.

The auteur's last release was Pinocchio -another stop-animation adaptation of Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, which also streamed on Netflix. The film earned a Best Animated Feature nomination at the 95th Academy Awards.

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio won the BAFTA for Best Animated Film. With over 50 million views in its first 28 days of release, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio spent four weeks on Netflix's global top 10 English films list and reached the top 10 in 92 countries.