Last week, we told you of the announcement that the ever hands-on Guillermo del Toro would co-direct a darker version of the Pinocchio tale with Mark Gustafson (The Fantastic Mr. Fox). We have an interesting tidbit from the Cannes Film Festival about this 3D stop-motion project with the Jim Henson Company to share with you.

According to THR, del Toro confirmed at Cannes that he is indeed going to be executive producing and co-directing this “gothic, dark adaptation of the famous Carlo Collodi fairy tale about a wooden puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy” and that the 3D of the film will make the film “seemed like it bleeds out into the audience at the edges.” But the interesting tidbit is that del Toro added that a certain boy wizard has approached him about this adventure about the puppet “proving himself to be as indestructible as his love for his father.”

Del Toro said that Daniel Radcliffe (Woman in Black, Harry Potter) has asked “to get involved with the project.” So far, there have been no casting decisions made regarding the voice cast for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, but the del Toro did also mention that he would like to cast Tom Waits and Christopher Walken.

The story has been written by del Toro, Matthew Robbins (Mimic, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark), and Gris Grimly. Grimly and Gary Ungar along with Bill Johnson and Jim Seibel of Inferno International and del Toro himself will executive produce the project.

Production for this story set in Italy between WWI and WWII is scheduled with a one-year production timeline and will begin in the summer of 2013.