By Filmink Staff
“The opportunity to make this film look and feel like the original comics by Peyo was one of the challenges and one of the delights of doing this film,” says Kelly Asbury, the director of Smurfs: The Lost Village. “To try and improve on that is an impossible task. And why would you want to do it? Why not make something that is as close to the source material as you can get it? All the people that love the Smurfs, love those Smurfs. We don’t want to give them something else.”
While Smurfs: The Lost Village certainly hews delightfully close to the beloved Belgian comic book series kickstarted by the legendary Peyo in 1958, the other major source of the film’s charm is its daring to do something truly new and out-of-the-box with this much loved property, which has bounced from the page to both the big and small screens in its fifty-plus year history. While all of the nostalgic elements are there – the Smurf village, the chief characteristic-derived names, Papa Smurf – Smurfs: The Lost Village also takes a detour courtesy of Smurfette, the only girl in this sweet-natured little hamlet. Heading out on a journey of exploration, what she finds will change Smurf Village – and the entire Smurf mythology – forever…
