When I first heard that someone was planning a big-screen version of "The Smurfs," I immediately thought two things: 1. Ugh, and 2. What took so long? Now comes producer Jordan Kerner with a handful of info that makes me think, Hmm this might not be such a rotten idea after all.
From Moviehole.net: "Kerner says he has been researching the popular 80s cartoon extensively. "Having seen all 234 episodes of the show, numerous times, Herb Ratner and I have been working really hard at looking where all the holes were in the episodes — ya’know, like all of a sudden another woman appears, it’s not just Smurfette –- and what we’ve done is we’ve plugged all those holes in a trilogy of three movies, and we reveal things as we go along."
The "Smurfs" trilogy will be "the animated Lord of the Rings -– through the world of these idiots. Because they’re sweet characters but they’re goofs. It’s a comic version, but still very heartfelt, version of Lord of the Rings – though not literally Lord of the Rings, but an epic story like that."
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