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Sony Animation Shelves 'Smurfs 3' For New Origin Tale In Franchise Reboot By THE DEADLINE TEAM Wednesday March 12, 2014 11:18am PDT Tags: Kelly Asbury, Sony Pictures Animation, The Smurfs )( 1 Share yTweet 69 I- in Share 1 print COMMENTS {17} One thing that's become evident. It's hard to kill a Smurf. After a sequel that savw its business nosedive next to the original, Sony Pictures Animation is changing course and planning a new take on its Smurfs franchise, tapping Shrek 2 and Gnomeo & Juliet director Kelly Asbury to helm an all-animated film with new designs and environments that will focus on the origins of the annoying blue creatures. The new take will be closer to creator Peyo's original artwork, and it has been targeted for the August 2015 release. They originally planned a straight trilogy,but apparently they will take a mulligan on a second film which contributed to all the heat Sony Pictures brass received from the likes of Daniel Loeb on a subpar 2013 returns The news comes as Sony Pictures' animation arm provided updates on its slate, saying that Genndy Tartakovsky has officially signed to return to direct Hotel Transylvania 2, which is eyeing a September 2015 bow with star Adam Sandler and Robert Smigel writing. Tartakovsky also is developing Sony's CG Popeye pic and his own original idea Genndy Tartakovsky's Can You Imagine, described as a

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Paper Jam Dipper

Mar 31, 2014 at 01:19PM EDT

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S1MP50N (local AFOL)

Mar 31, 2014 at 01:29PM EDT

That was always my biggest complaint about the first movie (still haven't watched the 2nd). It starts out in the whimsical Smurf village with of all theses characters you recognize from the show (which I did watch) and then that scene only last like five minutes and you only see six Smurfs for the rest of the movie one of which is Scottish Smurf who was never in the show. And then the rest of the movie is in same old modern New York with same old boring humans with same old predicable plot line.

Hopefully they can get it right now.

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