[media=youtube]uXILNncQwH4[/media]
I hope the turtles are crystalline and bring explosions where ever they go.
This is a good idea. I approve of this :tup:
The comedic potential cannot be underestimated.
Sent from my SGH-T959V using Tapatalk
Funny how people are jumping on Bay and yet he isn’t the one writing this movie.
Sounds like movie of the forever.
I like most of Bay’s stuff but he needs to get back to unlicensed material. His stuff based on other stuff lacks because he shoehorns shit into it. Honestly, Pearl Harbor made the fucking attack feel like a subplot.
Dear god… not my turtles… put this asshole in charge of a Biker Mice from Mars movie and watch him turn them mutants that fight a little brain inside a robot. Fucking dammit
Plot? In a micheal bay movie? Surely you jest.
Michael Bay, destroying our childhood one explosion at a time.
Why is anyone mad at this? Turtles has been ruined beyond recourse since Turtles 3. Michael Bay can butcher all my childhood shows if he wants, why stop at transformers and turtles? Ain’t we overdue a remake of the SF movie? I’m sure shia lebouf would make an excellent Ryu.
[media=youtube]IUH3JQjcweM[/media]
I can already see it…
The turtles show up from outerspace to stop Shredder (Who’s also an Alien) to take over the earth. In a funny role reversal, Krang is actually a Japanese ninja master who hates aliens and is trying to destroy the Turtles. But don’t you worry, the Turtles will have about 10 minutes total of screen time, the story will mostly focus on Casey Jones trying to get April O’Neill as his girlfriend. Also expect a large dose of fart jokes, ass shots, old people getting high on drugs and being confused about it jokes, sex jokes, etc, cause you know that’s what the turtles were all about.
Also to keep it “real”, one of the turtles (not decided yet) will get killed in 2 seconds flat, and two of them will come from the hood so expect alot of retarded dialogue. Don’t forget, that’s what the turtles were aaaaaaaaaaall about guys.
Just give this brilliant director his millions.
He’s obviously producing which means he approves everything that makes it into the movie so yea we’re gonna jump on his ass. Duh. He makes the final calls.
You jest but in the original Mirage Comics Shredder was indeed an Alien. He was an Utrom. He was an Utrom in the TMNT series that ran on Fox as well. First 5 seasons of that show where so goooood.
Look, if you’ve seen anything TMNT-related besides the 80s cartoon and Nintendo games, you’d know that TMNT is intergalactic and interdimensional sci-fi anyway. The down-to-earth stuff that cartoon/movie licenses ran off with are a really small part of the comics. The goo that mutated the Turtles and Splinter was extraterrestrial. So I don’t know if it’s so much of a stretch to change the TMNT from alien-mutated Earth animals fighting alien animals, to alien animals fighting other alien animals. It’s like changing Spider-Man’s webbing from DIY to organic, or making Joker just a regular guy who wasn’t chemically burned. That’s not how it is in the comics, but you can still make a faithful movie adaptation.
The real problem here is Bay producing, so it’ll probably be shit (even though the nerd hate surrounding Bay is overblown)
The issue is that it really changes the back story. Spiderman ain’t even comparable because what transformed him doesn’t really make a whole lot of difference. The Turtle’s backstory being redone would change the following.
-
They were the only ones of their kind. Granted they’ll still be the only ones of their kind on earth, but there was something special about them being the only ones of their existence anywhere.
-
The Splinter/Shredder dynamic. I don’t even know how Splinter is gonna get worked into this, but there was also something special about them being heralds of their master fighting his arch enemy.
-
Them growing up in the sewers was very Phantom of the Operaish. Aware of society, molded by it, but not really a part of it. What they knew of the culture they saw on TV so they were sorta kinda acquainted, but not really. It also explains why they give a damn as protectors. As opposed to some BS like “swearing to protect the defenseless” which is merely a part of a code they’re doing so because the people they’re protecting are their neighbors.
Basically making them alien really separates them from us in a way that’ll almost certainly detract from the plot.
If you still get upset that Hollywood regularly exhumes and corpsefucks all your treasured childhood cartoons, there is something wrong with you. It’s how it works, get over it. If you allow future remakes of stuff to retroactively go back and mess with your childhood memories and nostalgia, you’re the one at fault. There will be shitty remakes of everything until the end of time.
In 20 years they’ll remake this version of Ninja Turtles into sewer mutant turtles again, and little Billy born in 2003 will be on future thought-forums in the global mindscape bitching about Hollywood bastardizing his treasured childhood properties just like you are now.
And you guys forget that the 80’s cartoon that we all grew up with was pretty heavy on the alien stuff already. Wingnut and Screwloose, Triceraton Zog, and all sorts of characters are aliens. Krang and Lord Dregg were from Dimension X or whatever, so most of the cartoon already had aliens all up in there anyway. The franchise has been in a lot of wacky directions already…complaining that a bunch of anthropomorphic turtles that looked nothing like actual turtles are going to be depicted as extraterrestrials…I don’t know, that seems kind of like missing the point.
http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/2573/5126015192a4c3a78a9z.jpg
Cudley the Cowlick? Man most of you dumb cats complaining ain’t even up to the minimum speed required, CATCH UP SON.
- They’re one-of-a-kind but still a product of the Utroms (inadvertently). They’ll always be associated with an alien race. If they became mutants because of some terrestrial event, I’d agree.
- The “Splinter/Shredder dynamic” was wrapped up early in the series, after Turtles killed Oroku Saki in #1. After getting reanimated and killed again, the Shredder saga was a footnote (pun!) in the Mirage series. It’s probably a good thing to leave the damn Foot story behind and move the licensed material in a different direction. Splinter would probably have to be changed though.
- Nothing’s stopping them from living in the New York sewers and defending April and Casey the same way that Superman defends Lois. Maybe you’re thinking that they grew up on another planet and crash-landed in April’s backyard or something. It doesn’t have to go in that direction, maybe they wandered through an Utrom teleportation field and ended up on Earth at an early age.
And again I’m just defending the alien thing in -theory- because I think we all agree that it’s a Bay production and it’ll stink.
…better have some hot-ass turtle chicks up in there.
TMNT Adventures ftw…after Ninjara left, not so much.
[media=youtube]ZCCFJJTLlqo[/media] This whole episode screams Michael Bay, especially at 6:15.