Image: Columbia Pictures
In the spirit of Hollywood's ongoing trend to revisit and attempt to breathe fresh life into classic franchises, a promotional flyer image has recently been made available for the upcoming CGI animation / live-action hybrid film, The Smurfs. The image features a rather surprised looking generic member of the blue-skinned mushroom dwellers (perhaps as shocked about the revival as some fans appear to be) rendered in a CGI format and looking more or less about as one would expect a computerized 3D Smurf to look.
The Smurfs, familiar to just about any child of the 80s or later, was originally a hand drawn strip by Belgian comics artist Peyo Culliford. It was later developed by popular animation production company Hanna-Barbera into a cornerstone Saturday morning cartoon which debuted in 1981 on NBC. After a nine year television run the franchise still lives on via a multitude of marketing successes, having spawned such items as: musical albums, an Ice Capades act, video games, theme park rides, and the hugely popular PVC figurines. Further securing their place in pop culture history, a surprisingly well crafted theory recently surfaced online that the Smurfs are an allegory for Communism.
The Smurfs feature film is being produced by Sony's Columbia Pictures and is tentatively set for a fourth quarter 2010 release date
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G.I. Joe and now this...I quit the world.
I know, I know... What next: MASK? Thundercats? I shudder to think...
nice of your to steal and use stolen photos and not give credit to the the originator of this image.
@pvcblue Although I appreciate your polite concern, the image used in this article does not originate from pvcblue.com.
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