Hanna-Barbera cartoon, the “Smurfs” coming to the big screen
Posted on June 10th, 2008 by Hot Momma
After years in mothballs Variety reports, Papa Smurf, Brainy Smurf, Smurfette and the other smurftastic Smurfs are coming back to appear on the big screen. Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation live-action/animated are bringing a live-action/animated “Smurfs” project to the bigscreen.
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.
I always say they don’t make cartoons the way they used to!
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