Perhaps now we'll finally learn the dirty little secret behind that rapidly growing Smurf population considering there was only one "adult" aged female in the entire camp. Raja Gosnell, the director behind both live action Scooby Doo films has signed on to helm a big screen take on the classic Smurfs cartoon from the 1980's. The cartoon, which everyone remembers was about a clan of little blue creatures with names they should've been insulted by like Vanity Smurf or Handy Smurf(implying the rest were NOT handy), and Lazy Smurf was arguably the most popular cartoon of the 80's, running from 1981-1990. The film is expected to be a trilogy, set to be released in 3-D on December 17, 2010. No doubt the Smurfs arch-nemesis Gargamel will be the chief villain of the series.
Little known fact, the Smurfs have actually been around since 1958, begun as a Belgian comic strip. For some reason, I'm really into this idea. The Smurfs was one of my favorite cartoons as a kid, and I continue to obsess over the finer details of this existence to this day. Such as, why does Gargamel continually try to capture the Smurfs to use in his potions, when he's already proven he can create his own Smurfs? He did afterall create Smurfette. Whatever. THe fact remains, I'm excited for this and the people working on the film are all very experienced with live-action/animated hybrid films.
