The Smurfs...heading to the big-screen!

[dark_b]

i hope that this is just a teaser poster with unfinished look.

look we are in a time when dreamworks and Pixar are making very detailed and cute creatures,animals,humans,.....
and they are detailed. its not looking like plastic anymroe because its 2009. i understand that they wanted to have the same look. but dear lord make it more detailed . i really hope its a teaser image.

 

[Silver Knight]

Can you give me a rundown what Smurfs are about.

 

[Darkness Falls]

Can you give me a rundown what Smurfs are about.

The Smurfs
The storylines tend to be simple tales of bold adventure. The cast has a simple structure as well: almost all the characters look essentially alike — mostly male, very short (just "three apples tall"[5]), with blue skin, white trousers with a hole for their short tails, white hat in the style of a Phrygian cap, and sometimes some additional accessory that identifies a personality (For instance, Handy Smurf wears overalls instead of the standard trousers, a brimmed hat, and a pencil above his ear). Smurfs can walk and run, but often move by skipping on both feet.
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The Smurfs fulfill simple archetypes of everyday people: Lazy Smurf, Grouchy Smurf, Brainy Smurf, and so on. All smurfs with the exception of Papa, Baby, Smurfette, Nanny and Grandpa, are said to be 100 years old. There were originally 99 smurfs, but this number increased as new Smurf characters appeared, such as Sassette and Nanny. Smurfette is not one of the original smurfs because she was created by Gargamel, the evil wizard.

The Smurfs' community generally takes the form of a cooperative, sharing and kind environment based on the principle that each Smurf has something he or she is good at, and thus contributes it to Smurf society as he or she can.

In return, each Smurf appears to be given their necessities of life, from housing and clothes to food. Some have argued that the foundation of Smurf society resembles the basic principles of Communism, although Peyo's son, Thierry Culliford, has stated in an interview that his father "wasn't interested in politics at all".[6]

 

[Thundarr]

I liked both the books and the cartoon as a kid. I had a Smurf themed birthday party one year as a kid. I also used to collect those little rubber smurf figurines.

As for the movie, I'm glad it's gonna be a combination of CGI and live action, especially if done well. That's the way I would make it. Although a complete CGI movie in the style of Shrek or Toy Story would be cool too.

I never really gave much thought to the political ramifications of the smurfs. I think any such ramifications were purely coincidental, read into the story by the reader not written into it by the author. It reminds me of an article I read on X-Men 3 once. One of the local free gay community newspapers had an article in it about X3. I was bored one day and curious what X3 had to do with the gay community so I picked it up and read the article. Appearently the articles author had no problem with the dialogue, special effects, casting, or anything else that I've seen people complain about on sites like SHH. No, his complaint was that there weren't enough homosexual references in the movie. You know, scenes like Bobby's "coming out" to his parents in X2 and his parents reactions. "Have you ever tried not being a mutant?" Appearently some people beleave that Stan Lee's mutants are a metaphor for homosexuality. The truth is they are a originally a metaphor for African Americans. One can argue the metaphor has expanded to include all opressed groups of minorities. But that being said, expecting specific examples of your specific minority group in a movie that was never intended to be about your minority group is stupid. If they made Colossus a more central character and made him straight then they'd have a legitimate reason to be upset. But not making any attempts to equate being a mutant in Stan Lee's universe with being gay in our universe isn't.

 

[BLACK-SPIDEY]

i dont know if i want to see this, yes these guys were part of my childhood but im afraid hollywood will ruin it or put pop culture references or put scenes that have nothing to do with smurfs.

 

[Octoberist]

Can you give me a rundown what Smurfs are about.

what. you've never seen the awesome cartoon?

 

[Silver Knight]

No cant say I have. I had toys when i was like 7 or 8 but never watched the cartoon.

 

[Octoberist]

get it on netflix or even do a blind buy. it's proably one of my favorite cartoons. it's timeless.

 

[terry78]

http://www.ugo.com/movies/exclusive-first-look-the-smurfs-character-design


First leaked shot of a CG Smurf.

 

[Figs]

I grew up watching the cartoon but like the Scooby Doo and Garfield films I'll probably skip this one.

With that being said, I think they did a good job with the look...kind of hard to mess up really.

Wonder if Gargamel and his cat Azrael will look the same.

 

[terry78]

That's not a certain one, it's just Generic Smurf who they put in all the merchandise. I want to see how Handy, Brainy, and the rest look.

 

[8wid]

http://www.ugo.com/movies/exclusive-first-look-the-smurfs-character-design


First leaked shot of a CG Smurf.

That's one thing that don't look sexy shirtless.

 

[Dr. Evil]

As awesome as he is, I don't think his casting would make me want to watch this movie:

Neil Patrick Harris will star in Sony's big screen adaptation of The Smurfs, says Deadline Hollywood. He won't be voicing one of the Smurfs though as the project is a mix of live-action and animation. Harris will play the lead live-action character.

The site says that filming begins in April, when Harris will be on hiatus from CBS' "How I Met Your Mother." The Raja Gosnell-directed film is scheduled for a July 29, 2011 release.

"The Smurfs" were created in 1958 by Belgian cartoonist Pierre Culliford, known throughout the world as Peyo. "The Smurfs," originally called "Les Schtroumpfs" in French, were created for a Belgian series of comic books, first as minor characters. The villagers, known for their blue skin and small statures, spawned a line of statuettes, games, toys, theme parks and a hit TV series, which ran as part of NBC's Saturday-morning lineup from 1981-90.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=63881

It won't make me think less of him though. As he's still awesome.

 

[dark_b]

gargamel?

 

[Chris Wallace]

http://comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=17693

Why would they do that?

 

[That-Guy]

Harris could make an awesome Gargamel. I hope that's what they're thinking with him.

 

[Octoberist]

John Lithgow would be a great Gargamel

 

[matrix_ghost]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=63918

Winters, Lopez, Perry and Cumming Join The Smurfs

Source:Variety March 5, 2010


Jonathan Winters, George Lopez, Katy Perry and Alan Cumming are joining Neil Patrick Harris in Sony's live-action/animated The Smurfs.

Winters, who voiced multiple characters on the long-running Hanna-Barbera cartoon version of "Smurfs," will play Papa Smurf. Perry is in talks to portray Smurfette, Alan Cumming is taking on Gutsy Smurf and George Lopez is onboard as Grouchy Smurf.

Harris will play the lead live-action character.

Raja Gosnell is directing the Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Animation film from a screenplay by David N. Weiss & J. David Stem and Jay Sherick & David Ronn.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

This movie is going to suck EXTREMELY.

 

[dark_b]

uuuuuu what a suprise. Katy Perry will be in a movie.

 

[That-Guy]

I kissed a smurf and I liked it,
the taste of smurfberry chapstick.
I smurfed a smurf just to try it,
I hope Gargamel don't mind it.

 

[Dr. Evil]

So George Lopez is in this movie?

Now we know it's going to suck for sure.

 

[Bad Superman]

Smufs to the big screen. . . . This news remind me of an old Smurf dirty joke. . . .

 

[That-Guy]

Here's a question for you guys. This has puzzled me for the last 15 years. I once saw this written on the wall of a bathroom stall and I've never understood it:

smurf, snarf, babygoat.

What the hell?

 

[Metamorpho1977]

Wow, Jonathan Winters is alive?