Smurfs The Movie - Blu-ray Forum

GreenScar · 08-18-2009, 05:09 AM

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The live action Smurfs movie has started casting and they aren’t looking for little blue people. Put down that spray paint Verne Troyer. Odds are the Smurfs will be CGI or something, but the movie will contain humans. That’s right I said humans. In the Smurfs cartoons the only human involved was the evil wizard Gargamel, but for the live action movie it looks like they’re going a different direction. Specifically, they’re casting kids.

Backstage has a casting notice posted by Sony Pictures Animation in which they describe two specific roles they’re looking to fill. Here’s what Sony’s looking for:

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Sophie: ages 8-10, a girl of great imagination and originality, though always appealing, she is often socially awkward and doesn't fit in with the other kids, she's smart and open, though she can be physically clumsy, when she discovers that the "doll" her father brought home from Belgium is actually a living, breathing Smurf, she takes "Clumsy" in as a member of the family and tries to get the household to embrace him and the rest of the Smurfs.

Sam: 13-16 (to play 14-15), Sophie's brother, a good kid, but he's going through that phase where he can be difficult and withdrawn and retreat to his room to play video games, through his involvement in the Smurfs' quest to get home, he reconnects with his parents and sister.

So if you’re hoping for a magical movie set in a remote, fantasy
village full of Smurfs under assault from an evil wizard, forget it. It looks like they’re taking the Smurfs out of their fantasy environment and turning them into Alvin and the Chipmunks. Instead of mushroom huts hidden in the weeds, they’re plopping them down in the real world where they’ll hang out with awkward kids and video game obsessed teenagers.

Batman1980 · 08-18-2009, 05:10 AM

Sounds like a complete waste of time to me and I loved the Smurfs growing up. Who knows, could turn out to be quite the childrens' movie?

Purplegrasshopper · 08-18-2009, 05:11 AM

Unreal. GI Joe, Transformers, Scooby Doo, and now this? Thanks Hollywood for ruining another one of my childhood cartoons.

STARSCREAM · 08-18-2009, 05:58 AM

No f'n way!!!

I used to love the smurfs growing up. Hope it turns out good.

koontz1973 · 08-18-2009, 06:09 AM

Sounds like they are going down the route of The Cat in the Hat. And we all know how that turned out. I will probably see this a couple of thousand times as the kids are just getting into Smurfs.

Edawg72 · 08-18-2009, 08:08 AM

Should be interesting how it turns out. I still buy the seasons that are coming out for the kids.

jeabombers · 08-18-2009, 09:17 AM

I think the only possible way that they could make a Smurfs live action movie is if they aim it directly at pot heads, NOT children. 'Nuff said.

Penitus · 08-18-2009, 11:10 AM

Featuring Jeremy Irons as Gargamel.

jasonicus · 08-18-2009, 11:11 AM

I heard about this awhile back, and still can't believe it. I hope they explain why there is only one female in the whole village.

koontz1973 · 08-18-2009, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by jasonicus

I heard about this awhile back, and still can't believe it. I hope they explain why there is only one female in the whole village.

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SillyMammo · 08-18-2009, 12:25 PM

Hopefully, its a dark, re-imagining of the Smurfs' origins.

iori · 08-18-2009, 12:28 PM

I hope I get some smurf cereal out of this.

xtop · 08-18-2009, 12:34 PM

i remember hearing about this a few years ago..and was pretty excited. but if they're going to ruin it by putting in humans..then i'm out

xneox · 08-18-2009, 01:04 PM

It's as if The Smurfs was some kind of sacred, epic, life-changing, brilliant series to hear some of you talk about them 'ruining it' with a different perspective in a movie.

Let's bring this back down to earth. It was a freakin cartoon. Whatever they do with it, it'll be a kid's movie. We're not talking about Gone with the Wind here. You guys are so dramatic.

xtop · 08-18-2009, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by xneox

It's as if The Smurfs was some kind of sacred, epic, life-changing, brilliant series to hear some of you talk about them 'ruining it' with a different perspective in a movie.

Let's bring this back down to earth. It was a freakin cartoon. Whatever they do with it, it'll be a kid's movie. We're not talking about Gone with the Wind here. You guys are so dramatic.

i would assume you enjoy transformers judging by your avatar. were you not a little miffed to hear there were humans in the movies?

deckardp · 08-18-2009, 01:14 PM

It would just make a better movie to have them be in their village like the cartoon, not turn into another "fish out of water" story. It's been done to death. I know, hilarity ensues as they try to deal in this strange new world they have been thrust into. Blah blah blah.....

Purplegrasshopper · 08-18-2009, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by xneox

It's as if The Smurfs was some kind of sacred, epic, life-changing, brilliant series to hear some of you talk about them 'ruining it' with a different perspective in a movie.

Let's bring this back down to earth. It was a freakin cartoon. Whatever they do with it, it'll be a kid's movie. We're not talking about Gone with the Wind here. You guys are so dramatic.

Says the guy with a Transformers avatar.....classic!

GLaDOS · 08-18-2009, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Purplegrasshopper

Unreal. GI Joe, Transformers, Scooby Doo, and now this? Thanks Hollywood for ruining another one of my childhood cartoons.

+1

This is when Hollywood gets a bit too overboard on movie adaptations.

Petra_Kalbrain · 08-18-2009, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by jasonicus

I heard about this awhile back, and still can't believe it. I hope they explain why there is only one female in the whole village.

Someone in the village needs to recycle and she is the only one with a blue box... (insert sound of crickets chirping here as nobody laughs at my pathetic whimsical humour)

MCT · 08-18-2009, 03:35 PM

I really want to see a bodybuilder Smurf who's totally jacked on roids and HGH, and a profane, cigar chomping mercenary Smurf who wields a Rambo knife in one hand and a P89 in the other.

If they're gonna "reimagine" this thing, might as well go all the way with it.

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MCT Blu-ray Ninja Member since:Nov 2008 Blu-ray collection:499 Blu-ray reviews: 8 Trading Score:1	I really want to see a bodybuilder Smurf who's totally jacked on roids and HGH, and a profane, cigar chomping mercenary Smurf who wields a Rambo knife in one hand and a P89 in the other. If they're gonna "reimagine" this thing, might as well go all the way with it. Last edited by MCT; 08-18-2009 at 03:47 PM.

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Batman1980 Blu-ray Jedi Member since:Feb 2009 Location:District 13 Home Theater Gallery:8 4K collection:146 Blu-ray collection:394 DVD collection:57 Blu-ray reviews:22 Trading Score:48	Sounds like a complete waste of time to me and I loved the Smurfs growing up. Who knows, could turn out to be quite the childrens' movie?

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08-18-2009, 05:58 AM	#4
STARSCREAM Blu-ray Ninja Member since:Feb 2008 Location:Dagobah Blu-ray collection:148 Trading Score:67	No f'n way!!! I used to love the smurfs growing up. Hope it turns out good.

08-18-2009, 06:09 AM	#5
koontz1973 Blu-ray Guru Member since:Mar 2009 Location:Insane Alylum for the over achievers. Blu-ray collection:133	Sounds like they are going down the route of The Cat in the Hat. And we all know how that turned out. I will probably see this a couple of thousand times as the kids are just getting into Smurfs.

08-18-2009, 08:08 AM	#6
Edawg72 Senior Member Member since:Mar 2009 Location:San Diego Blu-ray collection:1400 Blu-ray reviews:1 Trading Score:22	Should be interesting how it turns out. I still buy the seasons that are coming out for the kids.

08-18-2009, 09:17 AM	#7
jeabombers Expert Member Member since:Jun 2008 Location:CoMo	I think the only possible way that they could make a Smurfs live action movie is if they aim it directly at pot heads, NOT children. 'Nuff said.

08-18-2009, 11:10 AM	#8
Penitus Expert Member Member since:Dec 2008 Location:Ohio Blu-ray collection:126 Blu-ray reviews:10	Featuring Jeremy Irons as Gargamel.

08-18-2009, 11:11 AM	#9
jasonicus Senior Member Member since:Jul 2009	I heard about this awhile back, and still can't believe it. I hope they explain why there is only one female in the whole village.

08-18-2009, 12:25 PM	#11
SillyMammo Expert Member Member since:Aug 2008 4K collection:426 Blu-ray collection:1086 Trading Score:2	Hopefully, its a dark, re-imagining of the Smurfs' origins.

08-18-2009, 12:28 PM	#12
iori Power Member Member since:Apr 2009 Trading Score:2	I hope I get some smurf cereal out of this.

08-18-2009, 12:34 PM	#13
xtop Blu-ray Count Member since:Oct 2007 Blu-ray collection:- DVD collection:- Digital collection:- Trading Score:3	i remember hearing about this a few years ago..and was pretty excited. but if they're going to ruin it by putting in humans..then i'm out

08-18-2009, 01:04 PM	#14
xneox Expert Member Member since:Jan 2009 Location:Hartford, CT	It's as if The Smurfs was some kind of sacred, epic, life-changing, brilliant series to hear some of you talk about them 'ruining it' with a different perspective in a movie. Let's bring this back down to earth. It was a freakin cartoon. Whatever they do with it, it'll be a kid's movie. We're not talking about Gone with the Wind here. You guys are so dramatic.

08-18-2009, 01:14 PM	#16
deckardp Special Member Member since:Feb 2009 Location:Northern Virginia Home Theater Gallery:17 Blu-ray collection:40	It would just make a better movie to have them be in their village like the cartoon, not turn into another "fish out of water" story. It's been done to death. I know, hilarity ensues as they try to deal in this strange new world they have been thrust into. Blah blah blah.....

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