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According to Reuters:
"The Sony studio said it has acquired motion picture rights to the Belgian-born characters from Lafig Belgium S.A. for a big-screen Smurfs adaptation mixing computer-graphic imagery and live action.It's going to be interesting to see how this is done. Will they keep the same Smurf theme?
A similar "hybrid" treatment was recently given to another popular cartoon ensemble in the highly successful "Alvin and the Chipmunks" movie from 20th Century Fox.
Like Alvin and his rodent companions, the Smurfs will be created by CGI technology and interact with real actors portraying humans."
Image from firstshowing.net
The Smurfs aired from 1981 to 1989 with around 256 episodes. I reckon I must have seen most of them. They were on Dempsey's Den, and on a Sunday morning before(?) Sesame Street.
Classic table quiz question - can you (without checking Wikipedia) remember the name of Gargamel's cat?
Azrael. My prize?
ReplyDeleteYou answered that FAR too quickly sir. I doff my smurf hat at thee.
ReplyDeleteA prize, eh? Erm. I'll get back to you on it. ;)
Woohoo!
ReplyDeleteAzriel?
ReplyDeleteAnd his voice through all the garden is a thunder sent to bring
ReplyDeleteBlack Azrael and Ariel and Ammon on the wing.
Giants and the Genii,
Multiplex of wing and eye,
Whose strong obedience broke the sky
When Solomon was king.
On a different note:
ReplyDeleteBeer beer smurfin beer, you don't get drunk and it isn't dear...
I find the Smurfs to be remembered by my age group more for the Donnie Darko scene about it, so that means a whole wave of Papa Smurf sex jokes are in store for this.
ReplyDeletecan't be any worse than the teenage mutant hero turtles remakes.
It's rhetorical. Copious praise is prize enough.
ReplyDeleteRemember the snorks too? They were like underwater smurfs? I always enjoyed them! :) God eighteies cartoons were great, instead of the doe eyed Hispanic children screaming at kids today! :)
ReplyDeleteSharkey and George?
ReplyDelete...crimebusters of the sea!
ReplyDeleteWhat are Smurfs?
ReplyDeleteNo, I never saw the smurfs! As lottie says they were before my time ;)
ReplyDeletewho *didn't* watch the Smurfs? They were absolutely riveting. Smurfs and a bowl of Frosted Flakes and you were set for the morning.
ReplyDeleteI remember the Snorks Deborha-I absolutely LOVED them!!
ReplyDeleteThe solace in feeling SO old when I look at pix of the smurfs, is that I am not alone ;)
ReplyDeletethe smurfs were created 32 years before I was born MJ.
ReplyDeleteGASP !!! NO WAY :) :) :) :)
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