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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Return in a Live-Action Film

Source:  Variety
Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesAccording to Variety, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will be returning to movie theaters everywhere.

This new film is slated to be live action and it will focus on the origins of the characters. The plan is for the film to come out in 2011.

Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael as well as their master Splinter are all set to be in this new film.

This week marks the 25th year that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have been a franchise.

The Mirage Group and Legendary Pictures are going to be making this project. Financing will come from Lightbox Productions.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles first came on the scene in comic book form in 1984.


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May 13th, 2009 8:23am
I agree with BD but I hate Halo COD all the way bro
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May 6th, 2009 1:11am
No way, Gears, Halo and Bioshock r the three best games for movie adaptations. not only would they make the coolest movies but their games r already just awesome and have enough story to them that a screen writer wouldn't have to make up much, which normal results in the movie suckin.
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May 2nd, 2009 7:06pm
I'd rather see Resistance turned into a film other than GOW.
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May 2nd, 2009 1:49pm
Oh, DAMN IT!!! Thanks for telling me J.A.

DAMN IT!!! I was sleeping goo knowing sat least that was in the works. DAMN IT! At least Len is still doing Atlantis Rising.

Again, James McTeigue.
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May 2nd, 2009 10:25am
Marv, shut the fuck up.
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May 1st, 2009 8:08am
They Need To Get Everyone That Did The First Movie To Do This One,Thankfully Its Not Going To Be Like TMNT Because It Sucked !!!
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April 29th, 2009 4:22pm
wow, i think they could make it.
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April 29th, 2009 3:57pm
Len Wiseman, dropped GOW a while back, its still waiting for a director and screenwriter. Apparently the dude that wrote the novel Gears Of War: Aspho Fields, is penned to write the script.

Don't know about Atlantis though.

I just don't ever see GOW, Halo or Bioshock making a the big screen debut, because they are highly praised games, that will need big crew people and production studios aint so big on handing out money just like that for game to film adaptations
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April 29th, 2009 8:37am
so you are saying that they are making a Gears of War Movie!
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April 28th, 2009 7:52pm
i didn't even think of Kate for April, that would work. i also didn't know that Wiseman was attached to Gears of War or Atlantis, i didn't know Gears was actually getting made.
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April 28th, 2009 7:21pm
No BD and J.A. Len Wiseman is too busy with Gears of War and Atlantis. And I don't think this is his type of film. Snyder would be cool doing this, but not fully his type of movie. I think Singer ain't so bad, but most likely I want James McTeigue to look into this. And Kate for April is a good choice.
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April 27th, 2009 7:18pm
Synder does have awesome visual direction, but i fear his style will become too repetitive, but i guess Sucker-Punch holds the verdict on that.

Bryan Singer, is good but he likes to complicate the script too much that it becomes hard to place on screen or too much is jammed together so the story is too over-developed like Superman Returns.

I like the thought of Len Wisemen, and your point is strengthen by the simple fact of how good he is at prosthetic work and that he has done action, so he is familiar with the genre. The work on Underworld was really neat.
Also i can imagine Kate Beckingsale as April, which is another factor why i like your choice of Len Wiseman.
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April 27th, 2009 2:02pm
alright and in case we all don't like Bryan Singer, how bout Len Wiseman, cuz some of u r saying that part of the reason del toro would be good is for the prosthetic work in Hellboy 1 & 2, well Len Wiseman had good prosthetic work for the Lycans in Underworld 1 & 2, he can also direct action, thoughts?
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April 27th, 2009 1:58pm
alright Ottley i agree bout Snyder's bullet time matrixesque style bein over used, but aside form that i think his visuals r awesome and the sets he uses r so vivid and memorable i think he would work well with the turtles, but...

if not Snyder how bout Bryan Singer, as far as i know he isn't doin much right now, plus we know he can do action and he also has a style to him that i think would suit the turtles, u think he would be good?
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April 26th, 2009 4:33am
Completely agree with you Comrade, Del Toro is one of the best fantasy directors ever, alongside Jackson. Which is main reason i'm amped for The Hobbit.
LOL @ Ridley Scott Presents....(don't give Hollywood ideas)

I couldn't agree more than the dude that stated about the costumes in Hellboy 1 & 2, they were amazing and yes, this film should be done like that.

To Chad...
This is a reboot, in which a reboot is just another fancy word for remaking a franchise but from its origin, hence forth why they call it an origin story to drift away from the cliche word Reboot/Remake.

Reboot...Remake...Origin Story (all the same concepts really).
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April 24th, 2009 2:44pm
Explore their origins? Are you serious?
What the hell for? BIG MISTAKE.

Another stupid remake. What a load of crap!
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April 23rd, 2009 10:20pm
Yeah, but Del Toro works better in fantasy, and this is more Sci-Fi action than anything...
Oh god...
"Ridley Scott Presents
TMNT: Beginnings"

lol
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April 23rd, 2009 8:32pm
If this is an origin story, how is this not a remake lol?
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April 23rd, 2009 8:03pm
They better not make the turtles CGI. They need to do what they did in the very first live action movie and I think if they go that route Del Toro would be awesome because of the work on Hellboy 2. The costumes in that movie were unbelievable and I think he would see to it that the turtles were bitchin awesome.
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April 23rd, 2009 7:52pm
Um, I guess.
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April 23rd, 2009 7:11pm
coolio
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April 23rd, 2009 6:59pm
This would usually be good news, but that CGI movie left a real bad taste in my Mouth. Here's Hoping.
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April 23rd, 2009 5:23pm
Wiseguy your dumb as hell!!! the turtles are the shit!!!....you must like barney or something
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April 23rd, 2009 4:45pm
Cowabunga! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turles! This is amazing news. Im getting a full sleeve of these dudes.
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April 23rd, 2009 3:05pm
Tennage Mutant Ninja Turtles SUCK!!!!!!
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April 23rd, 2009 2:45pm
kool was looking forward to seeing them cgi againg but this still sounds good.
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April 23rd, 2009 2:30pm
Nice.
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April 23rd, 2009 2:23pm
LOL @ Battletoads, awww god that bring back memories.

I was stating that as someone esle pointed out it will be live action blended with CGI, and look how those movies have turned out...Scobby Doo, Alvin...etc etc.

Ok on to my agreements and disagreements.

Agree with LEO, the origin story is getting kind of rinsed out so to speak, but the origin stories are interesting and people are intersted by these especially to ones they don't know the origins to or ones that have been created in perfected mannerisms and styles of the franchise like Star Trek and then we have had the disappointing ones which fail like Wolverine (my opinion) and Star Wars Prequel Trilogy.
The reason they fail is because we know the origin already, and they way these prequels are done is that they are done in such a cliche manner, that they no longer become interesting than they were when they were stated through dialogue in their sequels via the backstory.
A prequel has to be interesting, the viewer needs to know as little as possible, not the full story from its sequels.

Agree with the people noting Del Toro for this project, yes he would be fantastic for this problem is he is booked up until 2017, he has more work lined up after the Hobbit actually, as for he is doing his own versions to Frankenstein and Dracula, which i'm interested for despite they are a long way off.

Agree with Comrade, not every genre that a specifid praised director from a genre touches turns to cold, Spielberg had his ups and downs, so did Bay, Del Toro and as noted previously so did Ridley Scott.

Disagree with TheBD, for noting Synder for this project, it is an awesome idea, but Synder artistic and so called visionary style is becoming too cliche. We will have turtles fighting in Bullet-time, which i tired of in every Synder film
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April 23rd, 2009 1:28pm
Cool.
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April 23rd, 2009 1:26pm
Holy Crap Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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