Exclusive Interview: The Smurfs 2 Director Raja Gosnell

Raja Gosnell, the director of The Smurfs and The Smurfs 2, has quite a history with summer movies chock to the brim with high-tech effects…although not in the way people might think of them.Yeah, he was almost the director of Fantastic Four before he passed on the script and Tim Story came along–but generally his movies (like Scooby Doo and Big Momma’s House) aren’t the kind of tentpoles that have too many explosions–just fully-CG characters that need to be convincingly real when juxtaposed with the live-action actors they’re sharing the screen with. No big deal.Gosnell joined us to talk about the upcoming sequel, his talented cast of comic luminaries and the possibility for a Smurfs 3.