Platinum Dunes Steers ‘Turtles’ Relaunch
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon have brought Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes partners Brad Fuller and Andrew Form on to produce Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the live-action film that reboots the film series launched by New Line in 1990. Bay, Fuller and Form will produce with Galen Walker and Scott Mednick.
The producers will begin meetings with writers in the next few weeks. The deal puts Bay in the center of two Paramount franchises, as he started production May 17 on Transformers 3, and is zeroing in on Rosie Huntington-Whitely to replace Megan Fox as love interest for Shia LaBeouf. TMNT, a co-production between Paramount and Nickelodeon, is an outgrowth of the $60 million acquisition made by Nick last October for global rights to the entire Turtles franchise. Right around the same time, Paramount made a first look deal with the Platinum Dunes partners, who will generate genre projects but also want to expand their scope. While they’ve already set up several projects including a Rob Cohen-remake of Fright Night, the Turtles film puts them into new territory.
tmnt 1990 was the best. the rest were too slapstick. tmnt 2007 had some cool stories (ie. the raph and leo rivalry).
michael bay is gonna have the turtles travel to egypt to find ancient scribblings inside pyramids which will lead them to outer space to fight big astroids that are about to collide with the earth.
Why must everything get handed to Michael Bay?
… it might have something to do with the fact that his movies have made billions of dollars? Maybe?
oh my god — I just looked it up.
Bay’s movies have made $3,457,000,000.
in just 8 movies.
holy crap.
Beyond the fact that Michael Bay and Platinum Dunes shouldn’t touch this movie, whoever does it, it should utilize the same technique as Where the Wild Things Are: actual humans in costumes, faces added as CGI later.
They should get Sam Rockwell to come back for it. He was great in the original!
Sam
Ugh. Enough already. TMNT can stick to the video games; it hasn’t been too great on a cinematic level. And if I hear the word “reboot” one more time, I might actually go certifiably insane. Let’s get some new ideas generated out there, Hollywood. You’re boring me to tears.
“The CGI movie was crap.they made it too much for kids. ”
That’s funny.
I kind of like the idea of CGI because you can do more with a computer Leonardo than with a guy in a Leonardo costume.
I hope they don’t ruin the classic 90s movie.
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If they do, then that means Hollywood is out of ideas on making new films and are just remaking old movies to make money out of us.
I am so sick of this man. All he does is butcher cherished memories. He hasn’t had an original thought in years. The reason why the TMNT movies were successful was because of the dialogue and slightly darker nature of the film. That is why it appealed to kids as well as adults. This man doesn’t know the concept of what good writing is. All special effects and no substance…
dynomite!