'X-Men: First Class' screenwriter to re-write 'Pinocchio' for Tim Burton

Bing: 'Pinocchio' | Jane Goldman

THR reports (via /Film) that screenwriter Jane Goldman is currently in negotiations to provide a new draft to Fuller's original script. Goldman is a well-established name when it comes to the geekier side of mainstream cinema - she's written scripts for "Stardust," "Kick-Ass," "The Debt," "X-Men: First Class," and "The Woman in Black" and she recently penned the "X-Men" sequel, "X-Men: Days of Future Past." In Burton's new "Pinocchio," "Downey would play Geppetto, the woodcarver who creates a puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy and whose nose grows when he tells a lie. When Pinocchio goes missing, Geppetto embarks on a quest to reunite with his marionette." 

The potential hiring of Goldman would not only serve to help get the project back on track from a purely creative point of view, but is expected to help seal up both Burton and Downey and their involvements (as the outlet puts it, "Goldman's hiring is meant to bring the courtship to a close and initiate commitments"). Goldman is also expected to make her changes with the help of various notes that Downey has provided. 

"Pinocchio" does not yet have a release date, but would likely not arrive until sometime in 2014 at the earliest.