Well, in retrospect, it’s the kind of thing we should have seen coming. Considering the Smurfs were looking to take on Green Hornet AND the Yogi Bear movie in the upcoming holiday movie season, it really doesn’t come as much of a surprise that the powers that be over at Sony decided they weren’t even going to bother.
That’s right, folks, the Smurfs movie has been officially pushed back, back, WAY back….all the way back to 2011.
Here’s the strange part, though…rather than falling back to, say, March 2011, it’s apparently going to take a run at the summer movie season of 2011 instead. Now, I don’t know about you, but I definitely don’t think the Smurfs have the kind of firepower necessary to take a summer movie weekend by storm unless everyone else manages to stay home for a weekend.
Well, here’s hoping for the best for the Smurfs, and that neither Gargamel nor bad reviews will keep them away from success.
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It’s been a bad, bad day for me so far, folks–the kind of day that’s got me about one more catastrophe away from throwing up my hands and retreating to Olive Garden for the rest of the afternoon.
My newest problem is the release of a poster over at PVC Blue, a promotional one-sheet for the upcoming Smurfs movie. Yeah, you read that right–UPCOMING. SMURFS. MOVIE. And by the looks of it, this strange little wonder will be in theatres just in time for Christmas of 2010.
I don’t know what to say, really I don’t. Granted, one of my earliest movie memories is going to see The Smurfs and the Magic Flute with my folks when I was like four or something, but come on…do we REALLY need the Smurfs back in action? That’s so very…not smurfy. If it were any less smurfy they’d have to invent a whole new classification of nonsmurfiness to adequately classify it.
It would require the existence of Nega-Smurfs. They’re all bright red.
Of course, it could pick up, assuming that maybe Gargamel gets some actual powers for a change and maybe for once poses a genuine THREAT to the little blue folk…but chances are that won’t happen anyway.
Ah well…a former Smurf watcher can dream about them maturing too, can’t he?
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Those annoying Smurfs are coming back to the big-screen as the trades are reporting that Scooby Doo and Beverly Hills Chihuahua director Raja Gosnell is set to direct a live-action/CGI film that offers a modern take on the classic ‘80s series.
The animated series made by Hanna-Barbera ran from 1981-1990 and followed the antics of blue-skinned dwarf-like villagers. It originated from a Belgian series of comic books.
In development at Sony Pictures, no story details were given, though it is expected that the human villain character Gargamel will likely be played by a major star.
Shrek 2 scribes David Stern, David Weiss and Audrey Wells have penned the screenplay. The film is expected out on December 17, 2010.
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