Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Smurfs movie coming soon

Remember the group of small sky blue creatures from the popular 80s cartoon, The Smurfs? Soon, we will get to watch them on the big screen! That's right. They are making a Smurfs movie. And that's not all. It will be a trilogy! From Moviehole:
“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 3D Shrek world of them - that’s fantastic....”

The “Smurfs” trilogy will be “the animated Lord of the Rings – through the world of these idiots. Because they’re sweet characters but they’re goofs. It’s a comic version, but still very heartfelt, version of Lord of the Rings – though not literally Lord of the Rings, but an epic story like that.”

The fan favourite to voice the character of Gargamel seems to be John Lithgow. “Very interesting”, smiles Kerner. “I love John Lithgow”.

Gargamel’s back-story is going to be fully examined in the film trilogy. We’ll learn “[more] about Gargamel and Smurf Soup and how all that began and what really goes on in that castle. What his backstory really was. There’s an all-powerful wizard… there’s all sorts of things that get revealed as we go along”.
Interesting. John Lithgow as the voice of Gargamel. I like that. What's more interesting is who will voice the other popular characters like Papa Smurf and the lovely Smurfette? Hmmmmm...

Related: Watch the Smurfs cartoon intro and other cartoons of the 80s.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow Smurfs Trilogy!

Anonymous said...

John Lithgow is perfect for Gargamel!!!

Anonymous said...

Jennifer Aniston for Smurfette

Anonymous said...

I luv The Smurfs!!

Anonymous said...

Karenz: Good choice.

Anonymous said...

I used to have a crush on Smurfette.

Anonymous said...

cant imagine if they use live actors as smurfs... haha.. that would be so weird... seeing a person painted all blue and wearing the big hats.... so its good they using cgi.

Anonymous said...

How about Sir Ian McKellen as Papa Smurf ?

Anonymous said...

They should use a real actor to portray Gargamel.

John Lithgow looks like the part too.

Anonymous said...

i love john lithgow in third rock from the sun.

Anonymous said...

Not so sure if a trilogy will sell.

Anonymous said...

great. they should make movies out of all 80s cartoons.

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