Written By: Ken HulseySource: WENN
Just when I was confident that someone had come to their senses and decided that a 'live-action' "Smurfs" movie would be a bad idea, the thing raises its little blue head once again.
Indeed, Raja Gosnell, the man who inflicted "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" upon the world, has just been given the job of directing the film based on Belgian cartoonist Culliford's (Peyo) characters who were first created in the 1950s.
The little blue guys shot to mega popularity here in America in the early 1980s. At that time, Hallmark and toy stores were overflowing with the things and people gobbled them up like crazy. Of course, let us not forget the Saturday morning animated TV series, which is still shown on Boomerang.
This 'live-action' movie has been in limbo since way back in 2006. Like I mentioned before, I hadn't really heard anything else about it since then, and I was hoping that the film had somehow slipped off into nothingness.
Alas, that wasn't the case and we will all be up to our necks in little blue Belgian midgets come Christmas 2010.
Here's the skinny on "The Smurfs":
Producer Jordan Kerner stated that his upcoming feature-film version of "The Smurfs" would be computer-animated. "It's a 3-D/CG Smurfs," said Kerner. "You just can't make those guys live. It'd be a little weird. But a 3-D Shrek world of them—that's fantastic."
Kerner says he has been researching the popular '80s cartoon extensively. "Having seen all 234 episodes of the show numerous times, Herb Ratner and I have been working really hard at looking where all the holes were in the episodes.
You know, like all of a sudden another woman appears—it's not just Smurfette—and what we've done is we've plugged all those holes in a trilogy of three movies, and we reveal things as we go along."
Kerner said it took five years to win the rights to the cult franchise. "They were very uncertain about what story we wanted to tell—we weren't going to tell them until we had the rights, either. Then we got the rights on everyone's faith that they also had an ability to veto and presented them with the treatment. They just loved it. To be told that they loved it—not just liked it—and to be told that [creator] Peyo would've loved it, is a huge blessing and a great thing to have happen."
Among other things, the trilogy will examine Gargamel's back story. Audiences will learn more "about Gargamel and Smurf Soup and how all that began and what really goes on in that castle," Kerner said. "What his back story really was. There’s an all-powerful wizard. ... There's all sorts of things that get revealed as we go along."
Wait! Did he just say a trilogy? Oh crap! Apparently Kerner thinks that "The Smurfs" are going to be the next "Harry Potter" or something.
Speaking of Smurfette, does anyone else find it strange that she is the only female in an entire village full of dudes? A perverted mind would run wild with that one!
Okay, I'll be the one to say it....Smurfette is a slut.
Sorry, it had to be said!
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