It was announced back in May that Paramount (in conjunction with sister company Nickelodeon) had acquired the rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for $60 million for Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes. Now Deadline is reporting that Paramount is fast tracking a live action feature film. “The studio is looking at this as its next huge franchise, like Transformers,” say Deadline. Paramount has hired Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, who had credit on Iron Man and wrote the up-coming Highlander reboot, to pen the script. The duo better get to work, because the studio wants it done by October so the film can be hustled into production for a 2012 release. Glad to see so much care is being put into this project. With this sort of regard for quality there is no doubt it will be an amazing film, the kind we’ve grown to expect from the names Michael Bay and Platinum Dunes.
While I loved the Ninja Turtles when I was a kid (I even thought the recent animated TMNT was mostly decent), I can’t say that I actually care what becomes of the franchise. Though it bugs me purely on principle that anyone would go to all the trouble and money to acquire the TMNTs, then just shit out a film to have something to fill an empty time-slot. Oh, Bay, you’re incorrigible.
Well, at least we can count on one thing: whoever Bay casts as April O’Neil is going to be hot as fuck. He’ll care about that.
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Christ. The empty, soulless stare of the Leonardo mask is creepy as fuck. Definitely scarier than any Saw movie. Make a movie about a guy in that costume going around slicing people to bits. That will probably be better than any crap they actually do churn out.
It'll still do well with Bay's name attached despite being a immense piece of shit.
People are dumb.
Speaking of dumb could you sort out your comment verification?
Word is that Nickelodeon is hoping to reboot the cartoon show come 2012, this time in CGI. I liked the 2nd iteration of the animated show, mostly due to it's loyalty to the comic source material, but there's no arguing that the 'TMNT' series never achieved the raw mania of 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'. The powers that be at Nick are probably hoping that a Bay-backed turtles flick will help springboard the newest version of the show. I think I'm just gonna suspend my expectations for now until release day and then risk a couple of bucks to see what they've done with the green teen machine this time. Who knows? We might get lucky..
first of all bay is producing, just like berg produced transformers and we all seen how bergian that movie was. second of all what kind of phenominal screenplay work are you going to be so let down by considering how "amazing" the screenplay work was in the past with this franchise. I mean come on honestly.
"Well, at least we can count on one thing: whoever Bay casts as April O'Neil is going to be hot as fuck. He'll care about that."
Or be a piece of jail bait pawing at herself in an outfit she has no where near the proper curves to fill out.
The first live-action movie from the 90's is a classic. Also, Elias Koteas = Casey Jones…PERIOD!!!
The recent TMNT Forever (hits DVD next week) is pure genius!
Shouldn't it be MMNT now? Middle-age Mutant Ninja Turtles?
As long as we get a badass Krang and old faves like Rocksteady and Bebop, I'm all for it. A live action TMNT needs a stellar budget to do it justice. The turtles will have to be CG mo-cap and that don't come cheap. Only someone like Bay has the clout to get a $200m budget for this. And he's only producing, that's a big plus.
#1, You're not kidding. I scrolled down the screen just so I don't have to look at the creepy fuckin guy. Jesus
The reason they'll have it in by October is they're not writing a new script. They're just polishing an existing draft that the studio thought was "too dark" (though one of the turtle's creators loved).
@Comment #9: You can take the mo-cap idea and shove it up your ass. Spike Jonze showed us how it should be done with Where the Wild Things Are. Men in suits with cg faces is the way to do it.
The wild things weren't in ninjafights, so i think mocap would probably be the way to go.
The wild things weren't in ninjafights, so i think mocap would probably be the way to go.
i noticed two things…the weird looking face between their shoulders and the huge as fuck balls that turtle has behind the shell
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