Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation have obtained film rights for The Smurfs, a live-action/animated project for the bigscreen.
Best known in the United States for the long-running Hanna-Barbera cartoon, the Smurfs were created in 1958 by Belgian cartoonist Pierre Culliford, known throughout the world as Peyo. The Smurfs, originally called "Les Schtroumpfs" in French, were created for a Belgian series of comic books, first as minor characters. The villagers, known for their blue skin and small statures, spawned a line of statuettes, games, toys, theme parks and a hit TV series, which ran as part of NBC's Saturday-morning lineup from 1981-90.
I used to loved it when I was a kid, this might be the right time to introduce them to the new generations.
