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The Smurfs Movie
Literally hundreds of Blue, shirtless, male-dominated race of gnomes are coming to the Hollywood silver screen. The lovable cartoon show from the eighties called The Smurfs is confirmed for a feature film.

While it’s a little confusing to say that the franchise is celebrating it’s 50th anniversary this year. (What happened to “it’s an eighties cartoon?”) Well, as many of us young folks who grew up during the eighties aren’t aware of is that The Smurfs were actually started by a Belgian guy named Pierre Culliford. Sharing his heritage later on with others such as Jean Claude Van Damme, Culliford ,or better known as Peyo debuted The Smurfs as a comic strip back at Lafig Belgium in a magazine called Le Journal de Spirou. The original name was Les Schtroumpfs. (Maybe Col. Guile, i mean…Mister Damme probably read it on the funny papers as a kid).

It wasn’t until a couple of decades later when the little blue gremlins made the transition and crossed the big pond over to North America, where they were welcomed with a television show of their own. With the production by Hanna-Barbera (famous for Yogi Bear and a dozen others), The Smurfs quickly won the hearts of children, and stuck by until pretentious scriptwriters aka Richard Kelly could use them as a subject to showcase their wit. (Mr. Kelly, that bit about Smurfette was stretching it a little too much).

Anyway, back in 2002 some guy named Jordan Kerner decided to buy the rights to The Smurfs to make it into a movie. So after six years of planning and developing, we’re about to get the sole masterpiece of eighties tv show to modern movie adaptation. We hope so, but we don’t want to pull a Richard Kelly.

No specific word yet about the Director, Writer, Actor or anyone set to be in the production. All we know for now is that the whole gang of Papa Smurf, Smurfette, Lazy, Brainy, Grouchy, and many more will be brought to life using the latest computer-graphic technology, while Gargamel will most likely be a live actor.