He is fashion consultant best known as a mentor on the reality series
Project Runway, so is there better guy in this world to play an executive assistant at a major cosmetics company?
Guess not, and that’s why we are here to report that
Tim Gunn is ready to make it work on the big screen for
The Smurfs!
We already wrote about this
upcoming project, so we all know Raja Gosnell is directing with shooting underway in New York.
The Smurfs synopsis goes like this: “The movie will follow the diminutive blue people as they flee from their village after Gargamel locates it. They slip away through a magical portal and land smack in the middle of New York City’s Central Park. With Gargamel close behind, the Smurfs must find a way home before the wizard catches up with them.”
And yes, you already know that some interesting (and pretty big) cast is involved in the whole project, so, let’s just mention Tim Gunn joins a cast that includes
Neil Patrick Harris, Hank Azaria, Sofia Vergara, Katy Perry, George Lopez, Alan Cumming and
Jonathan Winters. Anyone surprised?
No way, Gunn is definitely no big-screen-stranger, since we all remember him in guest roles on
Ugly Betty, How I Met Your Mother and he’ll also be seen in the upcoming
Sex And the City 2.
The Smurfs also recently added several well-known voices to its cast of Smurfs, including
John Oliver of The Daily Show as Vanity Smurf,
Kenan Thompson as Greedy Smurf,
Fred Armisen as Brainy Smurf,
B.J. Novak of The Office as Baker Smurf, and stand-up comic
Jeff Foxworthy as Handy Smurf.
With every new information about this live-action/CG-animation hybrid film, we’ll be back. Stay tuned!
