With the success of that other 3D movie featuring blue creatures, Avatar another 3D movie finally seems to be on track to be unleashed this year. Columbia Pictures is fasttracking and securing a top notch cast for many’s childhood favorite: The Smurfs.

 

Promising!
Instead of going for a classic 3D animation movie, the Smurfs 3D will be an interesting animated-live action mix, featuring the Smurfs in 3D and live action stars. One of the live action characters will be a young dad of two who stumbles across the Smurfs’ village played by Neil Patrick Harris.

 

Harris currently stars in the hugely popular “How I Met Your Mother” tv sitcom and you’ll also catch him on the big screen in “Beastly, the summer 2010 teen movie (Youtube trailer below).

 

 

Star studded cast
But that’s not all while Neil Patrick Harris takes on the leading live action role, other huge Hollywood names have also signed on.

 


Master comedian, actor and radio personality Jonathan Winters (The Flinstones, National Lampoon’s Cattle Call) voiced the Papa Smurf character in the original Hanna Barbera Cartoon and is back on board.

 

George Lopez (Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Fatal Instinct) has been cast as Grouchy Smurf while comedian/actor Alan Cumming ( X2: X-Men United, Spy Kids, Frasier, Third Rock from the Sun, Sex and The City, Saturday Night Live) is rumored to be voicing evil sorcerer Gargamel.

 

Pop star Kate Perry, known for her smash hit ‘I kissed a Girl’, will get in touch with her most girly side playing Smurfette.

 

The capable Raja Gosnell will direct the 3D movie. The director helmed several Hollywood hits including Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Home Alone 3, Scooby-Doo 1 & 2 and Big Momma’s House.

 

So who can’t wait to see the little blue guys on the big screen? Did you catch the original cartoons?

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