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By TATIANA SIEGEL



Jonathan Winters, George Lopez set for Sony film

Jonathan Winters, George Lopez, Katy Perry and Alan Cumming are seeing blue.

The foursome is in various stages of talks to lend their voices to Sony's live-action/animated "Smurfs" movie.

The 84-year-old Winters, who voiced multiple characters on the long-running Hanna-Barbera cartoon version of "Smurfs," will play Papa Smurf. Pop singer Perry is in talks to portray Smurfette, Alan Cumming is taking on Gutsy Smurf and George Lopez is onboard as Grouchy Smurf.

Neil Patrick Harris has already signed on as the project's live-action character.

Raja Gosnell is directing the Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Animation hybrid pic from a screenplay by David N. Weiss & J. David Stem and Jay Sherick & David Ronn. Jordan Kerner is producing.

The Smurfs were created in 1958 by Belgian cartoonist Pierre Culliford, better known as Peyo, and have spawned a number of print and smallscreen incarnations worldwide.

The Smurfs: Hank Azaria and Glee’s Jayma Mays Added to Long-Awaited Movie

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Previously we reported that the long-awaited film adaptation of The Smurfs was finally going to take place, under the direction of Raja Gosnell, the director of the Scooby-Doo live action films. Not much was known of the casting for the combination live action/CGI feature film at that time, other than a few key roles. We can now add Simpsons voice actor Hank Azaria and Jayma Mays (Glee) to the growing list.

The Smurfs ran as a cartoon on NBC for eight years, and the small blue creatures became pop culture icons in the process. We already know that some of the big names in the entertainment world have been cast for the film.

As previously announced, comedian Jonathan Winters will play Papa Smurf, pop-singer Katy Perry will voice Smurfette, TV host George Lopez will voice Grouchy Smurf, and Broadway star Alan Cumming will play a new character, Gutsy Smurf.

Neil Patrick Harris has been cast as a live-action human character, Johan, an expectant father, whose whole life will change once he meets the Smurfs. Glee’s Jayma Mays, who will have soon work with Harris on an episode of Glee, will team up with him again, playing his pregnant wife.


Harris explains his role by saying, “I’m more the Jason Lee to the Smurfs’ Chipmunks.” To the fans who thought he would be playing Gargamel, he jokingly said, “I’m deeply offended by the inference that I have the physical prowess to be Gargamel. He’s supposed to be well over 50, balding, with a hook nose, and a hump in his back.”

Instead, the part of Gargamel has gone to Azaria, who is best known for voicing Moe the bartender, Chief Wiggum, and Kwik-E-Mart owner Apu on The Simpsons. Not that he’ll be providing yet another voice to a cartoon character, though. Harris chimes in again, this time from his Twitter page, stating, “Hank Azaria will be PLAYING Gargamel for the Smurfs film, not just providing a voice. He’ll be live action. Perfect casting, can’t wait!” Harris is probably happy to get as many people as he can to costar with him “live.”

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*SHAKES HEAD*

IF YOU FAN OF THE CHIPMUNKS OR GARFIELD.. THIS WILL BE A GOOD MOVIE TO WATCH.

I KNOW MY KIDS WILL LOVE IT...

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THIS THING....IS LOOKING NOT GOOD.