Benedict XVI Tapped To Play Villain Gargamel In Upcoming Live-Action Smurfs Film
New York, NY- Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States prompted a presidential welcome by George W. Bush and will culminate in Sunday mass before tens of thousands at Yankee Stadium. His Holiness' visit contained the usual pomp and circumstance surrounding Roman Catholic guys in tall pointy hats, however few were prepared for the announcement from Pope Benedict XVI that he will be starring in the upcoming live-action Smurfs film as the villanous, Smurf-meat craving Gargamel.
Benedict XVI made the announcement while making the rounds in the morning talk show circuit. He confessed his role in the upcoming family comedy Smurfed Up to Matt Lauer Thursday on the Today show before heading over to discuss it further with the ladies on The View.
"I've served the roles of accomplished theologian, professor, prolific writer, champion for conservative Catholicism, and now that of Pope. I thought it was about time I challenge myself a bit, and play the fictional arch-enemy of all of Smurfdom, which is new territory for me. It will force me to really stretch myself," said the thickly German-accented Benedict.
When questioned by The View panel member Whoopi Goldberg about why New Line Cinema had tagged him for the role given his relative lack of big budget film experience, the Pope quipped "Well, Whoopi, you and I both know what its like to have faces only a Virgin Mother could love. I think they just want to save of makeup artists."
When asked about how he planned to tap into the evil inherent in the bungling villain Gargamel, the Pope advised he would be calling upon the experience he gained as a member of the Hitler Youth as a teenager in the early 1940s.
The film, a New Line Cinema project, will be directed by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson and is slated for a Christmas 2009 release date.
New York, NY- Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States prompted a presidential welcome by George W. Bush and will culminate in Sunday mass before tens of thousands at Yankee Stadium. His Holiness' visit contained the usual pomp and circumstance surrounding Roman Catholic guys in tall pointy hats, however few were prepared for the announcement from Pope Benedict XVI that he will be starring in the upcoming live-action Smurfs film as the villanous, Smurf-meat craving Gargamel.Benedict XVI made the announcement while making the rounds in the morning talk show circuit. He confessed his role in the upcoming family comedy Smurfed Up to Matt Lauer Thursday on the Today show before heading over to discuss it further with the ladies on The View.
"I've served the roles of accomplished theologian, professor, prolific writer, champion for conservative Catholicism, and now that of Pope. I thought it was about time I challenge myself a bit, and play the fictional arch-enemy of all of Smurfdom, which is new territory for me. It will force me to really stretch myself," said the thickly German-accented Benedict.When questioned by The View panel member Whoopi Goldberg about why New Line Cinema had tagged him for the role given his relative lack of big budget film experience, the Pope quipped "Well, Whoopi, you and I both know what its like to have faces only a Virgin Mother could love. I think they just want to save of makeup artists."
When asked about how he planned to tap into the evil inherent in the bungling villain Gargamel, the Pope advised he would be calling upon the experience he gained as a member of the Hitler Youth as a teenager in the early 1940s.
The film, a New Line Cinema project, will be directed by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson and is slated for a Christmas 2009 release date.
Others rumored to have signed on for the film include:
That Guy Who Used So Much Colloidal Silver His Skin Turned Blue as patriarch "Papa Smurf"
Prop-comic and general freak-fest Carrot Top as "Hefty Smurf"
Heroes star Masi Oka as the ingenious albeit obnoxious "Brainy Smurf"
Paris Hilton as the Smurf Spunk-Dumpster "Smurfette"
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