The Smurfs 3

Note: Please do not add that “The Sony Hack was going on” as a reason here. This was before the hack occurred.

The Smurfs 3 is a proposed third installment in the live-action Smurfs franchise. The announcement was made about two weeks after The Smurfs 2 was released in theaters. It was originally set for a release in 2015, but was cancelled.

Plot
The film was possibly going to have the Smurfs be in a different time period.

Why It Was Cancelled

 * 1) Like the first film, the second film received negative reviews.
 * 2) Jonathan Winters, the voice actor of Papa Smurf died of natural causes on April 11, 2013 before the film was made.

Results

 * The Smurfs 3 was permanently cancelled.
 * The Smurfs series was rebooted in 2017 with a CGI film titled Smurfs: The Lost Village.

Trivia

 * It was going to be about time travelling back to possibly 1878.