A director and release date have been chosen for the upcoming movie The Smurfs. The director is Raja Gosnell and the film will be out in 3D and 2D formats on Dec. 17, 2010.

Raja Gosnell has signed on to direct the live action/animated hybrid “Smurfs” movie for Columbia Pictures and Sony Animation.

Those involved with the movie are already experienced with the medium. Jordan Kerner (”Charlotte’s Web”) is producing while J. David Stem and David N. Weiss (”Shrek 2″ and “Shrek the Third”) and Audrey Wells (”George of the Jungle”) wrote the script.

Sounds like it could be a really bad idea, but at least the people working on it have the technical side down. This just screams Alvin and the Chipmunks, and we all know how that turned out.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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