Daniel Radcliffe Wants To Be A Part Of Guillermo Del Toros Extremely Weird Pinocchio Remake

May 18th, 2012 | 5:45 pm

Daniel Racliffe Wants A Part In Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio

When the man behind Pans Labyrinth and The Orphanage decides to make a 3-D stop-motion Pinocchio remake, you just know its going to be a lot more odd and unsettling than the classic Disney kids movie. So why not add a dash of Daniel Radcliffe and make it downright bizarre? Director Guillermo Del Toro bragged to an audience at the Cannes Film Festival this week that the Harry Potter star expressed an interest in getting involved in the film, presumably as the voice of the wooden boy himself. Did we mention singer Tom Waits is probably going to be Geppetto? Sure, why wouldnt he be? Makes those creepy, donkey-riddled Pleasure Island scenes in the Disney Pinocchio seem downright normal! Just kidding, of course! That island will haunt us forever. Why were those boys all smoking cigars? That aint right!

Del Toro is also hoping to snag Christopher Walken for the films malevolent fox villain. The director vowed that movie would be way more faithful to the original story, more surreal and slightly darker and would be set in Italy between the World Wars. Because why wouldnt he go all out with the desolate, terrifyi! ng aspec t of a heartwarming fairytale? The Blue Fairy is going to be some sort of horrible mantis, isnt she? Isnt she, Del Toro?

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Tags: Guillermo del Toro, Pinocchio, Tom Waits, Christopher Walken, Daniel Radcliffe