Hollywood's strip mining of people's child hood continues, with news that 1980's sitcom ALF, about Gordon Shumway, an Alien Life Form (see what they did there) from the planet Melmac, living with a family on Earth, has been acquired by Sony Pictures Animation, with plans to bring it to the big screen as a combination of live action and CGI, similar to The Smurfs movie.
No writer or director has been attached, but the original show's main puppeteer, and voice of the title character, Paul Fusco, has signed on a one of the producers, along with Smurfs producer Jordan Kerner and ALF creator Tom Patchett. It is expected (and hoped) that Fusco will reprise his role for the new movie. While I'm a huge fan of the show from my younger days, the fact that they are using CGI, over the originals puppetry, doesn't make me sit up and take notice of this new project.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
