Is Quentin Tarantino Voicing a Smurf?

Quentin Tarantino's consolation prize for not winning the Best Original Screenplay Oscar? It may be voicing Brainy Smurf in the new live-action/animation hybrid due out in 2011. That date has changed, too, by the way, but only a little. It's now going to open August 3rd instead of July 29th. MTV spoke to Alan Cumming, who is part of the voice cast for Smurfs, and he says QT will be portraying the irritating Brainy Smurf. That's a good fit, but Tarantino's reps have already denied it. Sometimes those denials happen because there's just nothing to the story, but other times it's merely an instance where the paperwork's not done. It's actually a hell of an idea, so if nothing else, Tarantino was probably mentioned as a possibility. We know that Jonathan Winters will play Papa Smurf, and can you imagine a scene with Winters and Tarantino? George Lopez and Katy Perry are also on board, as Grouchy and Smurfette. Gargamel has yet to be cast, though Neil Patrick Harris is playing a human character, described by Cumming as "the nice man who helps us." What we've seen of the animation for the film so far is not terribly convincing, but the cast is starting to take shape, with or without Tarantino. Obviously, you could get a better actor than Katy Perry, but she's pretty marketable at the moment. A lot rests on the shoulders of Gargamel. I just cross my fingers that it's not Robin Williams.