NEWS: New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Film in Production

CULTURE: New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Film in Production

The first "album" I ever bought for myself was 1989's TMNT cash-in Coming Out of Our Shells, so me and the Ninja Turtles go way back. I watched the movies and the cartoons and played the video games. I had the action figures, the t-shirts, the pajamas, and the lunch-pail. Marketing: successful. But even a good franchise like the Turtles can be milked dry, and the well was nearly empty by the time their third live-action film, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III, debuted in 1993.

The Eastman & Laird-spawned franchise has kept a low profile since then, spawning one new animated series in 1997 and another in 2003, but plans are now being made to return the Turtles to the big screen. The film will be the first computer-animated TMNT vehicle, according to the press release:

This movie has been whispered about for a long time. Even Eastman and Laird commented about it on their website. I remember at one point they said they were waiting for the new animated series to kick off...which was a couple years ago.

At any rate...Turtle Power!

Not sure what I think about that...but, hey, we'll have to see.

[Edited on Jul 20, 2005 9:45PM]

These days liking pizza and skateboarding isn't enough to make you a teenager. Also, carrying weapons and not really using them isn't enough to make you a ninja. I'm hoping for an ill-advised walk into angst and violence.

Yeah and I hear there's talk of a Bill and Ted 3, too. Dear god, why are you trying to destroy my happy memories of 1989?

i wonder if they're going to go off the movies or just redo everything?

sweet!

[of course, this is coming from a girl who rocks out to the original TMNT movie soundtrack on tape in a car.]

It's totally geeky, but I'd love to see a Ninja Turtles film based on the graphic comics. It would invariably be retardedly awesome.

In other news, the Ninja Turtles were at least 30% of my childhood, with DinoRiders taking up another 20%.

I will only go see it, if Vanilla Ice is in it.

all cg... hmm... that will not end well. As far as I'm concerned, no one has done CG well enough to animate people, we just haven't had it around long enough to understand it yet.

Back to the story its not hard to find.. ninjas not just of the body but of the mind..

Turtle Power!

Ahhh....

Makes me want cable so I can watch the cartoon channel. Someone recently turned me on to how cool Gargoloye's are...

I really hope they use the old style turtles, before they went Xtreme to the maX hXc style with their razor scooters and crap. They just don't look the same, and my childhood screams out for vengeance.

They better put Krang in it.

i actually sat down and watched the new animated series, and, to my pleasant surprise, i found that large parts of the story ARE based on the original comics. i was excited =p

HEY!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III was awesome (from what I remember).

However... I've always had a horrible distrust of CG based anything after thirty seconds of Max Steel.

The horror... the horror

Seriously, The Last Starfighter had better use of CG.

I heard about this film 6 years ago...

itll be in production forever.

Go Ninja Go Ninja Go.

Yeah.

This needs Krang. And a bitching technodome.

I could go for a really goofy, cartoony, stylish Ninja Turtles franchise. I imagine like six movies featuring the likes of Krang, the Mutaninmals, the Rat King, Baxter, etc.

With no celebrity voices.

they should have taken the turtles out behind the turtle van and shot them after TMNT II...I too hope the CGI isn't all extreme.

Do you like penicillin on your pizza?

I hear that they are the worlds most fearsome fighting team, that they are heroes in a half shell AND their green. And when the evil Shreader attacks, these turtle boys don't cut em no slack...


but that's just what I have heard.

see proberlm i have is this

on BBC1 they show the eirly 90's cartoon version, i saw it and well i thought, thats a crock of shit why did i ever find this good..?

then ITV1 shows the new version with there more maga stlye animation and there achaly ninja not Hero, and its the best cartoon EVER!

Hmm... I would kinda rather see them in their fake puppet suits then all CG. I guess we shall have to wait and see.

The question I want answered is: but whatever happened to Super Mario Bros 2? Remember at the end of the movie, and the princess runs in and tells Mario and Luigi that there is trouble? But we never get to know the trouble.
(As far as I know, and I've asked a lot of people, I'm one of only two people who like the SMB movie. I also like Turtles III.)

i want to see waht happend as well in SMB

but i think that was there to do a sequel if it was suscessfull enough,
its obviosly wasn't

thats said i only liked it cos my dad looks liek Bob Hoskins and well that means My dad was Mario