“Hello. My Name Is Papa Smurf. You Killed My Franchise. Prepare to Die.”
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First, the terrible news: there’s going to be a Smurfs movie reboot, and Mandy Patinkin will inherit the role of Papa Smurf from the late Jonathan Winters.
Here’s the less terrible news: Raja Gosnell is not going to be directing, the movie will be completely animated this time, and is purported to be closer to the original Peyo comics. I hesitate to say we could actually get a good Smurfs movie…but we might get one without Guitar Hero references, or Neil Patrick Harris managing the unlikely feat of making us all hate him.
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist