Smurfs Flick to Be "Shrek meets Lord of the Rings"
Filed under: Action, Animation, Comedy, Paramount, Family Films, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and Sequels
Frankly, I've no freaking idea how it took so long to happen, but it looks like a big swanky movie version of The Smurfs is scheduled to hit the silver screen within the next few years. I realize this is the sort of project that may make you roll your eyes and deliver a derisive snort from not one but both nostrils, but producer Jordan Kerner recently shared some insights and ideas with Moviehole.com ... and the guy does have some pretty cool concepts for the inevitably Smurfy blockbuster. Among the things promised by Mr. Kerner:- The Paramount production will be done in 3-D style CGI, not at all unlike those Shrek flicks.
- The plan is to do a full trilogy, one that fills in all the "holes" of the TV series.
- The folks who presently run the little blue juggernaut originally created by the late Peyo -- "loved" the ideas that Kerner & Co. came up with. And since the guy was pursuing the movie rights for about half a decade, I guess one could take that reaction as a good sign. (Or at least a potentially profitable one.)
- The producer wants the Smurfs trilogy to feel like a lighter and goofier version of the Lord of the Rings trilogy: Epic and adventure-packed, but still sweet and silly.
- Regarding the nefarious Gargamel, we're promised a lot of backstory on the villain ... plus it seems that the fantastic John Lithgow is being considered for the role.
But then the guy had to go and kinda ruin it by promising the world a movie called The Mighty Ducks 4.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
11-27-2006 @ 1:16PM
Guillermo said...
It's somewhat like this, then? http://youtube.com/watch?v=2QxDAvMnA6c
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11-27-2006 @ 9:08PM
Ed said...
I'm personally a Smurf Geek. I look back quite fondly at the 90minute and then eventually 30 minute show which programmed my innocent childlike mind with the ideals of what it takes to be a good person (I wonder if the government was in on this conspiracy). And just as you transformer geeks demand nothing less than the best for your show, I'll demand the same for mine... aka the new voice actors has better be good or there'll be hell to pay.
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12-01-2006 @ 5:06PM
Tony said...
Smurf porn would probably be better.
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12-01-2006 @ 10:38PM
Caroline said...
Dude, does ANYONE even know that the Smurfs are actually "Les Schtroumpfs"??? It's a French comic. Why don't they leave this stuff to the French so it won't end up being crap? Honestly. They should learn French and go read the orginials.
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