Dear God, NO!

[Number23]

'The Smurfs set to hit the big screen'

(snip)

""We're very excited to introduce a new generation to Papa Smurf, Smurfette and the other Smurfs in all of their 'three apple tall' glory."

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,23851453-7485,00.html



The horror...

[Warpy]

1. You know why they call them Smurfs?

That's what they sound like when your truck runs over them.

[Number23]

4. ROFL

*gasping*

I had a Smurf doll as a young'un. But when I passed it on to my cousin, it always seemed to mysteriously be caught up in the front tire of her Big Wheel.... as if someone had run over it over and over and over again....

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[Lint Head]

2. No! Please Noooooo! The humanity!

:dem:

[LSparkle]

3. Wow ... that brings back memories ...

I worked at Hanna-Barbera when they were producing
the Smurfs cartoons. The guys who were behind the
Smurfs (two Europeans -- Danes? Swedes? Norweigans?)
would come into town several times each year, during
which time they occupied an office on my floor.
Whenever I walked past it, I'd hear them behind the
closed door doing the Smurfs voices back and forth
to each other as they wrote the scripts ... I was
never a fan of the cartoon necessarily but its
creators made me smile during my otherwise boring
work day on more than one occasion.

[Divernan]

6. The Smurfs are Belgian by origin

Best known in the United States for the long-running Hanna-Barbera cartoon, 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.

Sony obtained film rights to the blue-colored characters from Lafig Belgium via Jordan Kerner (”Charlotte’s Web”), who is producing. David Stem and David Weiss, who wrote the second and third installments in the “Shrek” franchise, are in negotiations to pen the screenplay.

Kerner secured film rights to the Smurfs property in 2002 and had been developing a 3-D CGI feature at Paramount/Nickelodeon, which has an option to co-finance the Columbia/SPA incarnation and distribute internationally. The Melrose studio has yet to make a decision on its role in the film.

[Number23]

7. Wow!

Whenever I walked past it, I'd hear them behind the closed door doing the Smurfs voices back and forth to each other as they wrote the scripts

That's a pretty cool (if just slightly creepy) story!

I hated the Smurfs because I considered them too cotton-candy. I was never into the soft stuff. Loved GI Joe, Superfriends and other 'toons. The softies (Smurfs, Care Bears etc.) never did anything for me. Funny though, that now I'm the mom of a little one myself, the softies are all I want her to watch!

:)

[Mojambo]

5. I swear, if Britney Spears ends up voicing Smurfette...

I may just go on a rampage and kill every living thing within a 25 mile radius.

[beac]

8. Didn't SNL already do this???

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/saturday-tv-funhouse-anna-nicole-smurfette-parody/1667001265

[tridim]

9. I was browsing IMDB today and came across this..

Howard Stern's Porky's (2009)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365647/

This is wrong on so many levels.

[OwnedByFerrets]

10. Just curious...Why all the Hate??

[Number23]

11. ??

What are you talking about? Where do you see any "hate" in this thread?

[OwnedByFerrets]

13. If I am too old to recognize facetiousness, I apologize...nt

[leftofcool]

12. You know they are gay doncha? Wait a minute.........

wrong toons. Was the Teletubbies, I think. Sheesh! The repukes have labelled so many of these toon characters gay I get them mixed up. Wasn't there something about Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck?????????????

[Beregond2]

14. Is there nothing bad enough for Hollywood to not decide a movie version is needed?