We’ve started a horrible new trend… 80’s cartoons are being turned into CGI movies at an alarming rate. First came the news yesterday that “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” is being turned into a computer animated movie, now it’s the “Smurfs”. And let’s face it, that live action Transformers movie Michael Bay is doing is technically going to be mostly CG too. It’s not like they’re going to build a real transforming truck (though they should, and then park it in my back yard, thanks). What’s next? Gummi Bears?
Anyway, the story here is that those sexually ambiguous blue guys, hot off their cameo in Underworld, are headed to the big screen after being quickly rendered by a computer. Paramount Pictures has acquired the rights to the property, and has hired producer Jordan Kerner to develop it as a 3-D CG feature and Herb Ratner (hopefully no relation to Brett) to write the script. Unhappy with making money off just one Smurf adventure, they’re planning a sort of Smurfs trilogy, with the first film smurfing into theaters in 2008 on the 50th anniversary of the Smurfs.
Wait a minute, those cartoons debuted in the 80s, how can they be 50? Apparently they smurfed in some Belgian comic strip before becoming a cartoon in the 80s. Forget accuracy, let’s start smurfing their age from when people first started caring about them. Saying the Smurfs are 50 makes me smurf ridiculously old.
