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Sony To Develop CGI/Live-Action ALF Movie

Only those of a certain age may remember classic '80s sitcom ALF, but the show did gain quite a cult following over the years. And now, inevitably, we can look forward to seeing the little fella on the big screen. Read on for details..

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By Mark "RorMachine" Cassidy - 8/8/2012
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sony Pictures Animation has acquired the rights to the classic 1980s TV sitcom ALF (Alien Life Form) and will develop the property into a CG-live action hybrid feature. Apparently Jordan Kerner, the man responsible for bringing (inflicting upon) us the recent Smurfs movie will also produce this, along with Tom Patchett and Paul Fusco. Fusco also voiced the character in the original show, and is expected to do the same for the movie.

For those not in the know, Alf ran from 1986 to 1990 and lasted 102 episodes. It focused on a friendly -- aside from his penchant for eating cats -- little alien named Gordon Shumway who lands on Earth and winds up staying with the Tanner family. It was actually pretty funny, or at least it was at the time, so expect the movie not to be in any way shape or form. No writer or director is attached to the project yet.







Source: THR
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jessepostal - 8/8/2012, 4:37 PM
Loved this show as a kid, and the cartoon, had the doll and the trading cards!
Asterisk - 8/8/2012, 4:42 PM
ugh.
BarnaclePete - 8/8/2012, 4:43 PM
I think it would be more fun if they stuck with the guy in the suit, but hopefully will be fun. The show is an 80's classic. Loved watching it when I was a kid. Hopefully he has the same voice at least.
ThePowerCosmic - 8/8/2012, 4:45 PM
Keep the crap coming sony!
lunesta - 8/8/2012, 4:45 PM
boy he a ugly mother [frick]er
GoILL - 8/8/2012, 4:45 PM
I use to love this when I was younger.
MilitaryStormtrooper - 8/8/2012, 4:47 PM
frick yeah i loved this when i was a kid Sony better not make it crappy
KeithM - 8/8/2012, 4:48 PM

caveman - 8/8/2012, 4:50 PM
ALF for the MCU.
jtown904 - 8/8/2012, 4:53 PM
Once again, who is running Sony? I mean this company is like RIM, one bad mistake to another. What demand, desire, or survey have they conducted to lead them to believe that people want to see ALF?
Durf - 8/8/2012, 4:56 PM
I loved this show! That being said, why!!!!!! Please stop remaking classic shows and movies!
BattlinMurdock - 8/8/2012, 4:57 PM
*fingers crossed*

Tyler Perry for director, Tyler Perry for director...
sKeemAn - 8/8/2012, 4:57 PM
Bring it back as a series not a movie.
KeithM - 8/8/2012, 4:58 PM
@jtown: I imagine it has something to do with this twisted kind of logic:

"Batman and The Avengers are known properties right?"

"So properties sell, right?"

"What properties do we have that isn't Spider-Man?"

"We have Alf"

"Do it"

Or something. This is the PG version. There's more coke and swearing in the R version.
patriautism - 8/8/2012, 4:59 PM
It's always bugged me how he was caught by the people who wanted to dissect him in the last episode, and we never find out what happened.
JohnTom88 - 8/8/2012, 4:59 PM
Sony, don't forget to put back Spidey and Ghost Rider franchises on Disney's table okay?
CaptainObvious - 8/8/2012, 5:00 PM
This is my favorite episode. :)
marvel72 - 8/8/2012, 5:03 PM
it was good in its day,i don't know about today's audiences.
santoanderson - 8/8/2012, 5:03 PM
I wonder how long it'll be before they remake "Small Wonder" into a film.
KeithM - 8/8/2012, 5:03 PM
@patriautism: Um. Hate to break it to you dude... they dissected him. The end.

:)

Quite a dark end to such a fluff show really.
OdinsBeard - 8/8/2012, 5:04 PM
yogi bear pt 2
TheNix79 - 8/8/2012, 5:04 PM
This writer is totally hating on ALF!
TrueRedBlue - 8/8/2012, 5:04 PM
When will Hollywood stop bringing things back ?? Seriously, is it too much to ask for more original stories?
Orangelight - 8/8/2012, 5:05 PM
It's official. Hollywood is totally out of ideas.
hope420 - 8/8/2012, 5:10 PM
Damn another show I loved as a kid has the chance to be ruined for my adulthood! Stop it Hollywood! Please try some new ideas.
MARVELPSYCHO79 - 8/8/2012, 5:11 PM
I loved watching the ALF tv show back in the 80s.The 80s was a great decade to grow up in.Good movies,great music.I feel sorry for kids today.This movie will suck since the guy producing this was involved with the Smurfs movie.I can't stand Hollywood.They really do know how to ruin simple concepts.
Sabconth - 8/8/2012, 5:13 PM
CrimsonReign - 8/8/2012, 5:14 PM
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!
chujong - 8/8/2012, 5:14 PM
Is there a demand for this?
SCURVYDOG619 - 8/8/2012, 5:16 PM
I remember that the actor who played Mr.Tanner on this show ended up a crackhead.

True story,and a sad one as well...
MARVELPSYCHO79 - 8/8/2012, 5:18 PM
@patriautism I forgot to comment about that last episode.That was a cliffhanger.I remember NBC also doing Quantum Leap's last episode like that.I hate it when networks cancel shows and the last episode is an cliffhanger.I always wanted to find out what happened to Alf when the government found him and had him surrounded.
RorMachine - 8/8/2012, 5:22 PM
There was a tv movie follow up called Project ALF. He escaped and received a citizenship on Earth as it's ambassador or something.
MARVELPSYCHO79 - 8/8/2012, 5:22 PM
Come on guys!This could be good if they follow what happened in the tv show.Family finds alien crash landed on their rooftop and hilarity ensues.Buuuutttt,Hollywood will [frick] this up.
MARVELPSYCHO79 - 8/8/2012, 5:28 PM
@RorMachine You're right.I forgot NBC did that.I really can't remeber it though.I think I watched it too.I can't even remember if the family from the tv show appeared in that movie or not.
polarkyle - 8/8/2012, 5:29 PM
did alf ever return home
RidiculousFanBoyDemands - 8/8/2012, 5:29 PM
Alf was racist lol.
silverdog - 8/8/2012, 5:31 PM
CrimsonArk - 8/8/2012, 5:34 PM
@ TrueRedBlue
Ugh, people like you are annoying.
Hollywood has been doing sequels and adaptations since the beginning of it's existence, it's nothing new. And most movies, even movies that aren't sequels or adaptations, aren't original. They have the same plot devices and character archetypes, just different coats if pain.
99% of all romance movies are the same. 99% of comedies are the same. 99% of low brow comedies are the same. 99% of all horror movies are the same. 99% of all action movies are the same. It's the way things are, and things won't change, because this is what people are comfortable with. They complain about lack of originally yet they pay to see the same movies again and again. Hypocrites.
OtakuPapi - 8/8/2012, 5:40 PM
Let Peter Griffin write it...i mean Seth McFarlene and we are Gold
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 8/8/2012, 5:42 PM
okay....
Genaro - 8/8/2012, 5:46 PM
ima have nightmares.
MtnMan - 8/8/2012, 5:46 PM
Execs at Sony must've really liked Ted...
CoolantTech - 8/8/2012, 5:51 PM
Hmmm.. I eat cats too not the furry kind though... oh wait...

TicklerMan - 8/8/2012, 5:56 PM
Just another thing you psychotic fans boys can say was "raped by the director" or "That ain't Alf, that's AINO".
TicklerMan - 8/8/2012, 5:57 PM
"YO!!!"
MtnMan - 8/8/2012, 5:58 PM
Ticklerman has a Nolan avatar. Go figure.
CPBuff22 - 8/8/2012, 5:59 PM
MtnMan - 8/8/2012, 6:00 PM
...and a weird name...Tickler man? Really? Little kids like Sandusky or what, you freak? Haha. Just kiddin, buddy. Your goat is to be had with the comment you made. Just puttin salt in the wound, my friend.
CapFan79 - 8/8/2012, 6:08 PM
Ha! I had the doll. LOL. If it's CGI then [frick] it.
Bigred20 - 8/8/2012, 6:12 PM
Really?!
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