How skittish is Paramount becoming with their tentpole releases? Between this and GI JOE: Retaliation, there’s seemingly no delay too lofty for these guys.
Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes production company had been up in Vancover in heavy pre-production for Ninja Turtles, a big budget live-action revival of the popular 80s cartoon that was going to be directed by Wrath of the Titans director Jonathan Liebesman. Well, that was yesterday.
Today, the pre-production staff has been informed that they’re being layed off temporarily as the studio reassesses. According to Hollywood Reporter‘s exclusive, Paramount’s abandoning a Christmas 2013 release in favor of a more attractive May 2014. Taken at face value, it’s only a six-month setback. Rumors abound that the issues lie with Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec’s script, as Paramount moves the production into lockdown mode for re-tooling. Still, this leaves a pretty wide hole in the studio’s release schedule come Christmas 2013.
One wonders where this leaves Liebesman, as this is a pretty hefty delay for a working director. Will he stick around for this restructuring or will there be someone new stepping in? Is Lars von Trier available? Because that’d be amazing.
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oh well this didnt sound to promising anyways.
is that a Coming Out of Their Shells tour photo?
God damn right it is.
Fuck those faces.
Tim Kelly, Maybe Paramount should adopt…Dominoes The Motion Picture. That way when the film falls apart it would be…Expected!
Lars Von Trier directing this would be the only thing that would generate any interest in this project. Well may be David Lynch as well. I did like the comic, movies and cartoon but this seems so misguided. Non-turtle, non mutated non teenager aliens? God it sounds so awful. Plus being produced by Bay and directed by the guy who did Wrath of the Titans gives me any confidence especially with Platnium Dunes utterly mediocre horror remakes. Hopefully they just decide to cancel this soon to be abomination!
Tim Kelly, So far Paramount SHELLed out…$60 Million for the TMNT, without much to show for it. The new animated series doesn’t sound all that great either.
Arturo RJ, Neither Lynch or LVT are what the TMNT needs. Ryuhei Kitamura would be…Perfect! Ninja, Ridiculousness, more Ninja, Ginsu Ninja, Rat Fu, a…JONESen Casey, and an O’Neill named April whom…MAY be a reporter, Scientist, or a Ninja herself!
If Cronenberg could almost direct Ring of Fire, Von Trier for Ninja Turtles could become a possibility…
Well I wasn’t really being serious and honestly it would be a bigger disaster than it already is. Probably if I’m being honest my dream director for this it would be Takashi Miike in a wondrous hard R rated insane masterpiece, but that won’t happen my secondary pick would either be Shane Black or David Fincher.
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