The Smurfs is a forthcoming 2011 live-action/CGI-animated fantasy-family film. The film will be directed by Raja Gosnell, with scripts penned by J. David Stem and David N. Weiss. Produced by Jordan Kerner, the film will be distributed by Columbia Pictures. It will be the first film in planned The Smurfs franchise. The Smurfs is originally expected to release in United States on December 17, 2010, but Columbia Pictures recently announced that it was going to push the film towards a late-July release in 2011. The film will be based on 1981's comic book and animated television series of the same name. The film will not be a sequel to the earlier Smurf features, Les Aventures des Schtroumpfs or The Smurfs and the Magic Flute, but will be starting from another storyline.
Production began since 2003. In June 2008, it was announced that Columbia Pictures have acquired film rights from Lafig Belgium (after Paramount's option expired). The Smurfs is currently in pre-production stage. Sony Pictures has also announced plans to begin a trilogy of live-action-computer-generated image Smurf films, beginning from The Smurfs.
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