I’ve loved comics and superhero stories and characters for as long as I can remember, from He-Man, to Ghostbusters to The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to anything and everything Marvel. Although we (my brothers and I) switched from hero to hero until we eventually found The X-Men, there will always be a special place in our hearts for all the characters we grew up with. Playing dress up in our home made costumes, buying the toys, playing with the toys, then eventually loosing the toys and crying about it are all memories that make me smile and miss the simpler days of life. So needless to say its exciting for me to hear that hollywood is working on bringing on some of these beloved characters back to the big screen, complete with big budgets, CGI technology and a movie going audience and industry that is much better at respecting the source material than it did in the 80′s and 90′s.
There has been talk the last few years of revamping the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle franchise with a new movie. Every so often a small bit of news would leak that would lead fans to believe the project was on track and since one of the original creators of the “Hero’s in a Half Shell” was said to be a part of the project. Then one day a name was attached to the project that sent chills down the spine of fans of mutated amphibian fans all throughout the world. That name was Michael Bay.
At a recent media event, when asked about the upcoming 2013 turtles movie Bay said “These turtles are from an alien race, and they are going to be tough, edgy, funny and completely lovable”. This statement was met with nothing less than a fiery barrage of disgust from fans everywhere.
The story developed more today as former Michelangelo voice Robbie Rist released this letter he wrote to Michael Bay to TMZ. Here it is:
“You probably don’t know me but I did some voice work on the first set of movies that you are starting to talk about sodomizing.”
Rist added, “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 … “
Still, Rist tells TMZ … “Everything I have said here could be off base and wrong … He has made WAY more money at this than I have.”
Then today following Rist’s letter, Michael Bay on his Shoot For The Edit Message Board had this to say:
“Fans need to take a breath, and chill. They have not read the script. Our team is working closely with one of the original creators of Ninja Turtles to help expand and give a more complex back story. Relax, we are including everything that made you become fans in the first place. We are just building a richer world.”
So basically he is standing by the alien/other dimensional turtle mess of an idea. Let’s see if the growing backlash from TNMT fans is enough to put this project back on track.
-m
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