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Michael Bay To Remake TMNT As Aliens
Nidi62 writes "We all know that Michael Bay loves to put 86 minutes of explosions into a 90-minute movie. But it appears that he has found a new way to screw up a movie. He is directing a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot in which the turtles are not created with ooze: they are 'from an alien race, and they are going to be tough, edgy, funny and completely loveable.' No word yet on whether he's consulting with George Lucas on how to totally destroy the origin and essence of a classic story."
Responding to criticism, Bay thoughtfully explained that fans need to "chill."
And I like turtles.
Retarded.
Oh, dear god.
...swallow his pride and show us more of Megan Fox's ass.
ANOTHER remake. How sad.
Michael Bay Signs $50m Deal to Fuck Up Thundercats.
le sigh.
Hollywood hasn't had an original idea in over a decade. Still, as awful as this will be, it will make millions of dollars.
Did... did he just tell us to chillax?
We've suspected it for years, but I think the trolling has just become completely overt.
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Teenage Alien Ninja Turtles = TANT
As in, this dude is tainting my childhood memories!~
Everyone who paid to see Michael Bay's movie must pay extra 10% income tax.
Those who took their kids with'em need to be referred to child protection agencies.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
Done!
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
Michael Bay is to 80's cartoons as Uwe Boll is to Videogames.
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Or am I missing something here?
Not as if he's going to ruin a cinematic legacy.
The latest: Shredder's not a Japanese gang leader, but a kitchen merchandizing mogul. Baxter Stockman is played by Vince "with the Slap Chop" Offer. You're gonna love his nuts.
I mean, FFS, it's in the goddamn name. It's like remaking Pirates of the Caribbean with Cowboys instead of Pirates.
Responding to criticism, Bay thoughtfully explained that fans need to "chill."
I will not have another classic from my childhood be butchered and mutated in a modern reboot.
You have been warned.
> No word yet on whether he's consulting with George Lucas on how to
> totally destroy the origin and essence of a classic story.
Yes, because, as everyone who has taken a high-school level literature class knows, it goes Homer's Odyssey -> Beowulf -> Romeo and Juliet -> War and Peace -> TMNT. All true classics with which ought not be fucked.*
Bay is right. Fans need to chill. The rights-holders sold him the rights and he is free to do with them as he pleases. Considering that for 99% of people, their first exposure was the crappy '80s weekday-afternoon cartoon and not the comic (which was originally meant to be a parody in the first place) this really isn't that big of a deal.
The good news is, Vanilla Ice is back in show biz these days so maybe they can get him for this installment too.
* personally I'd stick Robocop in there too but I'm not trying to piss anyone off here.
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I was about to be really upset, until I remembered that pretty much every other TMNT film or TV series has been pretty terrible too. Maybe the original comics were good, but TMNT is one of the few things I doubt even Michael Bay can make any worse. Plus, it's been 5 years since the last remake, so it definitely needs a new one.
Personally, I'm looking forward to Michael Bay's series of Jane Austen movies. Pride and Prejudice just isn't complete without the alien invasion subplot.
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If you didn't know that Michael Bay films are visceral extravaganzas that do not bother with substance, I just told you, so now you do. If you are worried about him ruining our beloved turtles, I doubt future generations will look to a 2012 blockbuster to understand a 1980s cartoon.
Complaining about bad art is like complaining that the ipad is not user serviceable.
The only good Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were the original B&W comics. Unfortunately I am old enough to have read them when they first appeared, but they were good.
Bear in mind that they aren't turtles either. And for all we know they aren't Teenagers or Ninjas. So it might be Normal Adult Fighting Aliens or something like that.
What do I get for overcharging for the popcorn? Free sex with sex kittens?
He's not making it for the fans, he's making it in order to merchandise to younger kids, and when the movie opens, it's a place for teenagers to go to make out. He's not making it for the TMNT Fans, all 12 of them are living in their mom's basement with no spending power.
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Calls it Transformers 4.
TANT? Sounds suspiciously close to "taint", which is what Mr. Bay seems to do to all of my beloved childhood TV shows.
So... Teenage Alien Ninja Turtles? Unless they are proud warriors who have grown to full maturity, and its not a joyride to earth... Then its Adult Alien Ninja Turtles! But wait! If they are not mutated from turtles, then they are not turtles. So maybe Adult Alien Ninja Humanoid-Herpetolicoid Beings! But if they learned their martial arts on another planet, then its only Ninja-esq... So the new theme is
"Adult Alien Noble Martial Arts Weilding Humanoid-Herpetolicoid Beings,
Adult Alien Noble Martial Arts Weilding Humanoid-Herpetolicoid Beings,
Adult Alien Noble Martial Arts Weilding Humanoid-Herpetolicoid Beings,
Heroes in a Half Shell,
Alien power!
They're the world's most fearsome fighting team (From Another World!)
They're heroes in a half-shell and they're green (Hey - get a grip!)
When the evil Shredder attacks
These Aliens for some reason focusing on one small local crime lord when they have interplanetary travel don't cut him no slack!
(Refrain)
Just doesn't have the same ring as it used to...
No word yet on whether he's consulting with George Lucas on how to rape people's childhoods.
FTFY.
WTF is it with Hollywood becoming the most unoriginal and rising as the pinnacle of butchery lately with re-makes, re-takes and spin-offs of original shows or movies? Who gives a hell what Bay's writers are doing to add complexity to the TMNT; it'll be a complete massacre, and in the end, Vanilla Ice can hold his head a little higher since this TMNT production will take his place on the suck-it-all podium in TMNT II: Secret of the Ooze.
Next up, Bay takes on Wizard of Oz remake:
"Flying monkeys with bombs. Lots of bombs. Wicked witch with machine gun on broom! Megan as Dorothy! Toto upgraded to pit bull. Shia LeBoeuf will ace it as the Tin Man with laser-eyeballs and missile-firing butthatch! Cowardly Lion now a Mexican political-asylum refugee who knows how to fight! The Straw Man now the Token Black Gay Teenage Computer Wizard in a wheelchair. With glasses. And braces. Eats HotPockets and Pepsi and Pringles while racing against time.
Old plot bad, new plot good. Secret Oz government lab accidently released virus that mutates Munchkins into slobbering zombie vampires. Only Dorothy can save them because her blood has radical new antibodies. Witch nearly kills her, but sex with the Tin Man revives her. New totally unexpected ending not involving explosions!"
> I assume that Bay has never actually told anyone to “chill” or “relax,” as those are pretty much the most incendiary words you can say to an upset person. [FTFA]
I'm sure there are worse things to say to a person than that. This is all a tempest in a teacup.
Coming in IMAX 3D this summer, Micheal Bay's TAINT! Teenage Alien Invader Ninja Turtles!
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.. since Transformers 2. It was honestly the worst movie I've ever seen.. not even Megan Fox bouncing all over the screen could save it.
Since there isn't any known substance on this planet that can give reptiles sentience, why not a mutagenic compound created by aliens specifically for that purpose? Instant monolith effect. Everything else can stay the same. Even the company that produced the ooze could be a front for an alien conspiracy. Isn't Krang an alien?
It's not really that much of a stretch, just so long as they still mutated from turtles originating on Earth, I'm good.
Of course Mr. Bay won't see it that way. So he can just f#@& off.
Michael Bay is single-handedly improving the economy, at least for me, by populating the theaters with movies I have no wish to see.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
Teenage Alien Intelligence Ninja Turtles
Did we learn nothing from Indiana Jones?
Everyone seems to be freaking out about this. But who cares? Anyone under 25 doesn't know what TMNT is and anyone over 25 doesn't give a shit, because it's fucking TMNT and we're fucking adults.
that is all
> Responding to criticism, Bay thoughtfully explained that fans need to "chill."
Fans need to ignore Michael Bay and his movies entirely. I've never seen one of Bay's movies, he has never "ruined" anything for me, and I am perfectly content.
My Dinner With Andre. In 3-D.
You know, I honestly don't give a crap about TMNT. Not at all. Never a fan. But this STILL MAKES ME SEETHE.
Why the fuck can't Hollywood EVER GET ANYTHING RIGHT, EVER?
It's like Bryan Singer admitting he never read comic books as a kid. So what do they do? Give him the X Men franchise to direct. Great thinking, guys. That's exactly what you want. Directors who never read the source material. Pilots that never read a flight manual. Doctors that never read a book on physiology. Truck drivers that never read the drivers code, driving on the wrong side of the streets. Perfect. And it's not uncommon. Same goes for Tim Burton, which perfectly explains Edward Bathands.
But this time, I have to be impressed though. This time, the ignorance of Hollywood rings true a clear as a bell. You know right at the outset that this is going to absolutely suck. Some people like Mr. Singer and Mr. Burton admit to not knowing the source material. Mr. Bay has basically admitted that he hasn't even read the fucking title. Because it's Mutant turtles, not Alien turtles as others have correctly noted. A new low, even for Hollywood.
Why the fuck do they keep hiring these people? A total fucking stranger they pick randomly off the streets could do better. They certainly couldn't know less about the topic. You can only go up.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
I'm watching all these franchises getting raped and it's nice that i don't actually care about any of them.
Never liked the smurfs.
Never really liked transformers.
Never liked TMNT.
Never really gave a damn about starwars. Empire strikes back was awesome but the rest I could care less about.
I did like Indiana jones but I just liked them... I'm not a "fan."
Anyway... It's nice not caring. I am sorta of a startrek fan so it was nice that they did that some justice. But beyond that it can all go to hell.
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were much better anyway
I'll show him some "chill" in liquid nitrogen.
I hope they are from the planet Zeist, and they are enemies of weirdoes in bird costumes.
If he could fool half the nation into thinking that 'Pearl Harbor' had one of the nurses die for dramatic effect (not one nurse got killed, something the group had a lot of pride in), the planes were designed to handle the tricked-out moves they made and Ben Affleck could act, he can turn fictional turtles biblical.
But if anyone badmouths Josh Hartnett, I'll crush them into a fine powder. Because I love him.
You want to know how to help your kids? LEAVE THEM THE F*&K ALONE. --George Carlin
Do is this going to be the Teenage Mutant Alien Carebears?
So this will turn TMNT into TANT...
Just add an "I" and it will describe this movie!
I have a feeling my feelings about this movie will be similar to TMNT2 vs TMNT1. TMNT1 sucked if you were too little. TMNT2 sucked if you were too old. As you grow up, the one you like better switches. This movie will be a TMNT2....
The thought of hanging myself at my student loan organization doesn't bug me as much when I think it might make a differ
Nnnnooooooooooooo!!!!
I don't care for TMTN much, but my *last* hopes of him ever doing a really good movie are with ghost in the shell adaptation.I still have hopes because it's not him who's writing the script. Or so i read.
Evolution is a far superior explanation than miraculous transformation via ooze... as far as origins.
Just saying... anonymously.
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there will be a My Little Pony movie directed by Michael Bay
They might be mutated... but how would we know?
Teenagers? Well... the point of the original was that they acted like teens, although I expect their chronological age could have been significantly different. What would alien teenagers act like? Would the audience even identify them as teenagers? If they behaved like earth teenagers, where did they pick up that behaviour pattern from, exactly?
Ninjas. Okay... that's one.
So instead of 'TMNT', they just are 'N'.
I'm not sure whether to be disgusted with Bay for being so mindbogglingly dense or just simply stunned at the sheer ludicrousness of the idea.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
The cartoon that most of y'all think of as the original, canonical TMNT bears little resemblance to the sarcastic parody comics that Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird first produced in the 1980s, so I have a difficult time empathizing with your distress over this latest permutation on the concept. Of course it's idiotic and disrespectful of the previous treatment. What did you expect?
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I will just get out my old Eastman & Laird collection and, indeed, chill. He can rest assured that I will not be stirring myself to buy tickets to his movie.
Man, people really get worked up over shitty cartoons from their childhood created to sell toys.
Did I watch some ninja turtles as a kid? Yes
Was it good? Not particularly
Do I care the least bit that Michael Bay is going to turn it into a CGI shitfest? Not really
Bay sucks. His movies suck. But I don't really care what he does with ninja turtles
I would think Ridley Scott has the final say in that.
Of course all this would end overnight if consumers just stopped watching these damn movies. But of course no one will because most people don't care, and amongst those that do many will watch anyway. The term "consumer" is quite appropriate. People are like ravenous locusts the way they devour any shred of entertainment dropped in front of them.
I largely stopped watching movies several years ago. It wasn't a conscious decision; it was a number of things that slowly turned me off. Predictable, contrived stories, poor writing, endless plot holes and the like. One of the bigger problems is just how calculating the industry is. There's all the bandwagon jumping, milking popular trends and focus group testing. Movies are selected for their ability to generate income. That they have any message to deliver is incidental, used as a selling point and nothing more.
No doubt they will come from the planet 'Kawabunga' where the staple diet is fruit from the Pizza tree.
I guess they also had to be raised from birth totally immersed in Earth's Gen Y culture. Or does their own planet, through some incredibly coincidence somehow have the exact same culture?
If you ask me, making them aliens is a totally piss weak cop out and a total failure of imagination on the part of the film maker.
shell!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR3vNwhL__k
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From Topless Robot: "Okay, I'm getting a little pedantic here, but the fact remains that by making the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles aliens, Bay is needlessly changing one of the core components of the series -- one of their three fundamental adjectives, one might say -- for no discernible reason or benefit whatsoever. You know, I used to think that Bay was just an immensely successful idiot, but honestly, now I think he's our nerd satan. Here we are, enjoying Game of Thrones and the Avengers movie and unparalleled nerd art and prestige, and Bay is the Anti-Nerd, the serpent in our paradise, the one who will stop at nothing until all nerd goodness is ruined with aliens and pissing and balls and humping dogs and steaming piles of shit. Seriously, Michael Bay is the Nerd Devil"
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About the only way I could see this working within the TMNT mythos would be if the "ooze" that turns the Turtles into human-sized, talking, ninja-capable creatures was from some crashed alien ship. Something along the lines of: Alien ship crashes, government transports strange substance to secret lab in New York City, canister falls off truck into sewer, canister breaks open oozing slime onto turtles, turtles mutate into TMNT. Therefore, the turtles would be part-alien in a manner of speaking.
Of course, I fully expect Michael Bay to turn them into alien creatures who came to Earth to have huge fights with plenty of explosions, half-naked women, and tons of TMNT fans screaming in horror.
My sci-fi novel, Ghost Thief, is now available from Amazon.com.
Michael Bay makes me miss Uwe Boll.
HOW.
Teenage Alien Intelligence Ninja Turtles.
So we'll all know whose it is we are doomed to view.
Thanks for this!
Make sure to NOT see this movie, check!
Skip any movie associated with Michael Bay, check!
Keep my money away from Hollywood idiots, check!
Anything is possible given time and money.
Was it a pulse, plasma or phased? Certainly wasn't a Napoleon or a Long Tom.
And if there is, he's trying to kill us off.
grey wolf
LET FORTRAN DIE!
weren't you here for the Startrek reboot? That what reboot means, take something that people like and totally screw it up for your own ego trip. That way you can make a totally mediocre movie and still expect good box office take from the fanboys that go just because of the name.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
...swallow his pride and show us more of Megan Fox's ass.
Spoilers for the TMNT movie ahoy!
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Ok, so-- You know how the turtles love pizza? The new movie's plot revolves the turtles quest for vengence, after the Turtles witness their Pizza Delivery guy's car exploding. And the Pizza Delivery guy exploding. And the pizza exploding.
Oh yeah, and Megan Fox's ass... it explodes too. It's gonna be awesome!
I grew up with TMNT, such that the game, bomb level and all, making it more difficult than battletoads (having beaten both games, I can claim this with sincerity), is still a better representation than aliens.
It's turtles covered with ooze. Period. Fuck Michael Bay. Should this absurd idea come to fruition (turtle aliens, really?), count this as not even bothering to "pirate," because the idea is offensive.
Ahem, Star Trek was not a reboot, it's simply an alternate universe storyline. Sheesh.
I got excited when i glanced at the headline! Ooops..
Unless they're mutants on their alien planet they can't really be the Teenage "Mutant" Ninja Turtles, now can they?
It's like they wrote a movie that had nothing to do with TMNT, and then just stuck the old name on it anyways
Hmm... when he said that was he imitating Arnold Schwarzenegger's Mr. Freeze from that wonderful Batman and Robin film?
Batman and Robin -Trailer
Because if this movie is half as good as that one... I expect we'll be talking about it for years....
"MIT betrayed all of its basic principles."
Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters was the best spoof comic of TMNT ever!
Does it really matter, in the grander scheme of living culture, if Mr. Bay 'reboots' TNT such that it has little in common with the original concept? No. I thought the original Dark Knight Batman movie wasn't bad, for instance. But, after a while, it just gets a little old when film makers can't even be bothered to dish out enough originality to at least do a mash up of previous concepts (eg. Star Wars). It's merely another example of how when it comes to culture, efficiencies of scale aren't. When there aren't even a handful of film studios anymore (speaking of the US), then there are only a (handful * N) opportunities to make a film.
If there were a couple handfuls of studios, there'd be (2 * handful * N) opportunities, and some of them would be forced to find new material, because all of the obvious sources would have been worked over long ago. Would the budgets be as big? Prolly not, and it wouldn't matter, because we're currently seeing a very inefficient use of capital.
But, if I knew anything, I'd be rich, eh? Pffft! Here, Bay, I'll throw you a freebie: Stranger In A Strange Land where instead of Valentine Michael Smith from Mars, we get Osama Bin Liden from Yemen. He still gets shot in the end, but causes a whole lot more trouble in the meantime.
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I love Michael Bay.
Whenever he's kind enough to put his name on a movie poster, I'm sufficiently warned not to go see it ever.
Saved me quite a bit on money and introduced me to some great movies by different directors.
Keep doing what you are doing, mr. Bay, and make sure you market all your movies as "Michael Bay's Whatever-it's-called".
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TOS was an exceptionally good scifi series, when it comes to televised scifi. In 1966, when computers at home, mobile telephony, tablets, etc were unheard of, and when most of the world did not even have television, there comes a show that;
-shows people working on computer screens, by touching them.
-have mobile communicators.
-people work on a computer network
-computer accepting voice commands
Let's also not forget warp drive, teleportation, antigravity, and the first ever interracial kiss on TV.
That was groundbreaking, wasn't it?
Fast forward 40 years later, and much of what ST showed has been implemented in one form or another. We have networked computers, mobile computers, communicators, tablets, and interacial relationships are aplenty every day on TV.
So, what this new movie offers us over the old one, from a scifi perspective? nothing at all.
Not only that, but as an action movie, it is rather lame. The plot holes are as big as Kirk's ego, and all the consistence the old universe had had gone out of the window.
To me, that means one thing only: it was a bad movie.
Did it make a huge profit? yes, it did. But that does not mean anything. The movie audience has been brainwashed with so many bad movies the last 20 years, that they do not know what a good movie is any more. They will watch any shit thrown at them, if they get their entertainment fix. The general audience watches Big Brother, America's Most Wanted and every MTV teenage trash series. For them, STXI may have been even intellectual, but that does not mean it was a good film.
So... it's based on TMNT, except that the protagonists are space aliens instead of native mutants.
This has actually already been done, and is called "Biker Mice from Mars".
I used to watch TMNT when I was younger, when it first came out, and always thought it a great story. ...as they are no longer TMNT but more like TANT.
I enjoyed them, but now they are taking that story and changing it, they will have to change the name too,
This is what is wrong with Hollywood today.....they just want to make a buck with everything, but when it comes to real stuff that matters....
wont touch it with a 10 foot pole...
They're from the planet Zeist.
OK 3 things:
1) After mentioning "tough, edgy, funny and completely loveable" they couldn't throw in a "Radical", "Bodacious", or "Tubular", for shame.
2) Reminds me of the Simpsons when the make a new toon for itchy and scratchy called "Poochy". Though I believe even he was "in your face", "edgy", as well as "Radical"
3) Have you seen "TMNT: The Movie"? It was fscking HORRIBLE. If this is a reboot, it is a VERY low bar to exceed. I have no doubt that Bay can make a better movie. Hell just about anyone could.
Besides, samurai mutants might be a little "too soon" after fukushima... Aliens might be a bit more consumable.
I thought what they did to a certain planet was actually a pretty ballsy move, dramatically speaking. I just hope they handle it in an interesting manner in the next film. If they can reign in the patently illogical WTF moments, the reboot could do well for a while.
A guy doesn't pull in > $2.5 BILLION on 3 movies because they suck. A ton of people loved those movies (I am not one of them). I bet the advertising campaign had a lot to do with it, and I bet if John Carter had 80s nostalgia and the Bay's advertising team, it would have made 1/2 billion as well.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
Perhaps it's time to try your hand at writing a novel. That way you can suck in obscurity.
Why is no one mentioning that in the original comic books, the ninja turtles WERE technically from (the work of) an alien race? The ooze that mutated them was created and misplaced by an alien race called the Utroms. http://tmnt.wikia.com/wiki/Utrom
There's a chance that Michael Bay just doesn't understand his terrible choice of words and he's not actually planning on making the turtles extraterrestrial, but just acknowledging that they did, in fact, come from the Utroms, who are going to have a prominent role in the plot.
I'd really expect the Slashdot crowd to pick up on a pedantic detail like that. :)
Try the Wool series by Hugh Howey. It'll cost you a buck for each book in the currently five-book series. If you read the first installment (a short-form book you should be able to finish in a hurry) and don't like it, I'll personally mail you a dollar bill. Polished and tight, you'll never know it wasn't professionally edited.
He published one book under a publisher, which didn't sell, and hasn't signed on with a publisher since. The Wool series has sold well over 100,000 copies at this point (an SF blockbuster by any measure), and not a dime of that went to a publisher.
(And no, I'm not Hugh Howey.)
I've read a lot of works I enjoy from Baen. I've gotten hooked on several series (which I have then purchased later installments) from the Free Library.
That said, Baen publishes more polemic than any other major SF publisher I'm aware of, and those books are about as subtle as an Ayn Rand novel. I don't mind books where it is apparent the author has a political viewpoint which differs from mine. But books where you get bludgeoned over the head with it, and it appears the plot exists solely as a background for political ranting... count me out.
At least as president of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Cash in on a franchise, with sexplosions.
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It may be fine for someone who has never seen or read the stories from the last few decades but I'm not watching it.
Wasn't TMNT 3 bad enough? After that movie Ice Cream melted faster, candy wasn't as sweet and the amount of homework I had doubled. With this new assault on the TNMT franchise now that I'm an adult, I fear for the health of my car!
UPDATED, MARCH 21: Now two of the actors who voiced the Turtles in the three 1990s live-action movies have gotten drawn into the fray of what we've dubbed "Turtlegate." TMZ says Robbie Rist, who voiced Michaelangelo, posted a letter to Bay that said the filmmakers was "sodomizing" the beloved franchise with his alien approach. Said Rist, "I know believing in mutated talking turtles is kinda silly to begin with but am I supposed to be led to believe there are ninjas from another planet? The rape of our childhood memories continues ... "
... mazel tov!," Tochi told TMZ. Another Bay supporter is Judith Hoag, who played April O'Neil in 1990's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Hoag, however, is a veteran of Bay films. She admitted to the site, "I was in Armageddon ... which Michael directed ... as well as Nightmare On Elm Street and I Am Number Four which he produced."
... but it IS possible."
However, Bay has a supporter in Rist's co-star Brian Tochi, who voiced Leonardo in the '90s movies. "If Michael Bay wants to do a different take on the turtles origin story
UPDATED, MARCH 22: TMNT co-creator Peter Laird has now addressed the "alien" controversy over at his blog: " I would actually encourage TMNT fans to swallow the 'chill pill' Mr. Bay recently suggested they take, and wait and see what might come out of this seemingly ill-conceived plan. It's possible that with enough truly creative brainpower applied to this idea, it might actually work. I'm not saying it's probable, or even somewhat likely
Laird, who reminds fans he no longer has any control over the TMNT property, added sarcastically, "the reason I say it could be a 'genius' idea is that -- for the first time -- someone has come up with a way to have as many freakin' Turtles as they want. I mean, if the TMNT are actually members of an alien race, there could be a whole PLANET of them!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=lNJ6dFwh8a4#t=30s
Apparently Bay has never heard of Highlander II. Because the whole "turn the main characters into aliens" thing worked SO well for that franchise!
One positive thing that may come out of this is that the TMNT comics I've been holding onto may see a price spike due to increased demand, through new fans and nostalgic old ones. I wouldn't mind parting with them for an inflated profit. I'm keeping the RPG books though.
The movie will suck, this much we know. But the fact is, TMNT only had a very brief period before it was raped and sold out. The original comics didn't even publish that many issues before the Archie/cartoon series shit all over the mythology for the sake of a quick buck made on the backs of the cheap Chinese labor force cranking out all the merch. It was disgusting, and the original comic, though it continued, was never as good as the first 12 original comics. I stopped reading after the "Return to New York" storyline because although I enjoyed the writing, I missed the original artwork. Eastman and Laird had long since taken a background role in the original comics by the 20th issue. They were busy letting their creation get effed in the A.
So yeah. I already had my moment of "fuck those sell outs and fuck their shitty new backstory and character development" ... Like 23 years ago.
And for the record, I believe history will bury Michael Bay under a thick layer of shame, like the Vatican ignoring Hitler for so long.
The problem with the original Flower Pot Men is that is that Bill and Ben spoke with a very thick accent, and closed captions weren't invented in the Watch with Mother era. Perhaps when you were a kid, the language acquisition units in your brain were still pliable, and you could pick up the Oddle Poddle dialect.
And it wasn't LSD; it was weeeeeed.
Not as much of a poke as a BANG BANG!
The problem in this case Bay's "original idea" is changing the turtles to aliens.
The "T" could still stand for Twurtles, like Arnold Stang's character Nurtle in Pinocchio in Outer Space.