Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

[thenammagazine]

From comingsoon.net

Kevin Eastman Talks Ninja Turtles Movie:

Ninja Turtles is now slated for a May 16, 2014 release date.

So they paid off Eastman on TMNT like they did Hama on G.I. Joe. "If we get the creators to praise it, people will buy our huge stinking load of crap!"

 

[CelticPredator]

Indeed. They have too.

 

[greygoose]

So they paid off Eastman on TMNT like they did Hama on G.I. Joe. "If we get the creators to praise it, people will buy our huge stinking load of crap!"

Yep, pretty much.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

So they paid off Eastman on TMNT like they did Hama on G.I. Joe. "If we get the creators to praise it, people will buy our huge stinking load of crap!"

I bet if peter laird was still alive, this movie doesn't happen

 

[Kabukiman]

I bet if peter laird was still alive, this movie doesn't happen

Too lazy to find the "not sure if serious" image.

 

[Shropt]

Peter Laird is still alive according to Wiki so I'm guessing not serious.

EDIT: This is an interesting part of the Wiki... "Eastman sold his share of the franchise, with the exception of a small continuing income participation, to Laird and the Mirage Group on June 1, 2000.[10] On March 1, 2008, Laird and Mirage bought out Eastman's remaining rights and interest and the two went their separate ways. Concerning Eastman's departure, Laird stated his belief that Eastman "was just tired of it."[10] On October 19, 2009, Laird sold the franchise to Viacom/Nickelodeon, but still retains the rights to create and publish up to eighteen black-and-white comics based on the franchise per year."

So Eastman seems to be the one that doesn't care about TMNT yet he is the one working with Bay. Doesn't that just sound soooo Michael Bay that he picks the creator that doesn't care about TMNT to rape our childhoods?

 

[CelticPredator]

Not really. Unlike 98% of all directors, he does actually listen to what fans are saying.



Except to change awesome into boxes.

God, I hate those boxes....

 

[ExMem-LarjaThwei]

Michael Bay listens to Transformers fans?

Haven't they all been begging him to light himself on fire for the past five years?

 

[thenammagazine]

Michael Bay listens to Transformers fans?

Haven't they all been begging him to light himself on fire for the past five years?

Notice he was unspecific about "fans."

 

[Deckard]

Michael Bay Fans - noun

1. A small child without the capacity for rational thought.

2. Playboy Playmates who have sex with him for Transformer money.

 

[thenammagazine]

Michael Bay Fans - noun

1. A small child without the capacity for rational thought.

2. Playboy Playmates who have sex with him for Transformer money.

I'm slowly beginning to feel the same way about Webb fans.

 

[Deckard]

I could do with or w/o Webb, didn't feel he brought anything in particular to it, but I didn't dislike anything he did either, so just for continuity sake I wouldn't mind him coming back. My only worry is that whoever continues gets the same performance and chemistry and I'll be happy.

 

[greygoose]

From latino-review:

TMNT Creator Says New Script Will Be Closer To Source Material:

Kevin Eastman created the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with Peter Laird as a comic book that was published on May 5th 1984. Now that the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie under director Jonathan Liebesman has been moved to May 2014, we’re quickly approaching the Turtles 30th anniversary year with a new live-action adventure in the mix.

The new film got pushed back so Liebsman can better conceptualize the action sequences while scribes Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec furiously re-work the script, now infamous because of Michael Bay’s assertion the Turtles would be re-imagined as aliens.

IDW has been re-launching it’s Turtles line in a big way, and Kevin Eastman announced he’ll be writing and drawing a 48-page Annual issue for his creations.

Talking to CBR about the state of the Turtles, he had some very encouraging things to say for those of us that still have a Teenage Alien Turtles taste in our mouths:


“I talked to [producer] Scott Mednick yesterday, and he’s seen the most recent 50 [script] pages and said it’s as good as the last version — they’ve really knocked it out of the park,” Eastman said. “I’ve seen a chunk of it, and it’s going to be a great movie, despite what everybody thinks.”

[...]

Eastman is busy working closely with Liebesman, Mednick and writers Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec. “Doing sketches, drawings and character designs, bouncing stuff around with the writers, talking with the director and the producers — I’m actively involved…When you see what Ciro’s done with the TV series, and obviously what the fans have seen us do with the IDW series, what they’re doing with the movie is creating its own story, but it has to be true to the source material or we’ll get ____ing murdered. To be blunt.”

Bluntness appreciated, Mr. Eastman.

 

[ironwez20]

So is that alien nonsense gone ?

 

[AMAZEN]

IMO I cant stand Bay.. if I start on all the shizz that's wrong with Bay i might never finish

 

[greygoose]

So is that alien nonsense gone ?

Hopefully. The whole alien idea was complete bollocks to start with!

 

[ironwez20]

Yea. That idiot was like you haven't seen the script and all that nonsense. O look the movie got delayed because of the script. Unlike transformers which has different incarnation and origins tmnt only has like one , mutated from ooze. Don't screw with the tmnt , the whole world loves them.

 

[AMAZEN]

Yea. That idiot was like you haven't seen the script and all that nonsense. O look the movie got delayed because of the script. Unlike transformers which has different incarnation and origins tmnt only has like one , mutated from ooze. Don't screw with the tmnt , the whole world loves them.

it will be forgotten overnight, trust me if they dont keep it the way we grew up knowing them, no one will remember Bay's attempt at a TMNT movie.

 

[CelticPredator]

This is still Bay's attempt. He just listens to you. Which some of you fanboys don't realize.

 

[thenammagazine]

So is that alien nonsense gone ?

You don't wanna see TAiNT?