Music celebrity, magnificence mogul, clothier and … Smurfette? Rihanna’s subsequent huge function might not be what you had been anticipating.
On Thursday, Paramount launched a trailer for “Smurfs,” giving us a primary have a look at the singer because the elflike, blonde-haired, blue-skinned creature. In an animation type that blends easy 3-D rendering with components that evoke the basic hand-drawn cartoons, Smurfette leads her cohort into the true, live-action world on a quest to Paris to seek out Papa Smurf after he mysteriously disappears.
The trailer begins with Rihanna, in human kind, addressing the viewers.
“I can’t look forward to you all to see it this summer season,” she says, with sun shades largely protecting her Smurf-blue eye shadow. She had teased the trailer in an Instagram put up on Wednesday, which was a brief video captioned “in my blue period.”
The animated film additionally options an ensemble forged together with Nick Offerman, Natasha Lyonne, Amy Sedaris, Nick Kroll and Dan Levy, and is directed by Chris Miller, who beforehand helmed “Shrek the Third” and “Puss in Boots.” It is going to be a musical-comedy reboot of ‘The Smurfs’ movie franchise, which final had an installment with “Smurfs: The Misplaced Village” in 2017.
Along with taking part in Smurfette, Rihanna is a producer on the film. However, in what is going to more than likely be the largest information for her followers, who’ve been clamoring for extra music since her album “Anti” was launched in 2016, the trailer ends with a message advising folks to “presave” the film’s soundtrack, which is able to characteristic new music from Rihanna.
It additionally says the film will embrace the tune “Greater Love,” recorded by Desi Trill and that includes DJ Khaled, Cardi B, Natania and Subhi.
“Smurfs” is about to launch on July 18.
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