SCI FI Wire reports that
Producer Jordan Kerner told the Moviehole.net web site that his upcoming feature-film version of The Smurfs would be computer-animated. “It’s a 3-D/CG Smurfs,” Kerner told the site. “You just can’t make those guys live. It’d be a little weird. But a 3-D Shrek world of them—that’s fantastic.”
I’d have never even guessed that a Smurfs movie was in the works, much less one that was all CG. I’m not sure that I’m as enthusiastic about the prospect as this producer seems to be…