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New Live-Action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie in 2011

Posted on Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 by Peter Sciretta

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Wow, I feel old. Tomorrow is the 25th birthday of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. To celebrate, a 25th Anniversary “Shell-ebration” is schedules in association with the Tribeca Film Festival. The World Financial Center Plaza will be transformed into a drive-in pizza party screening of the 1990 live-action film complete with glow-in-the-dark manhole covers, a turtle-green colored Empire State Building, an all-new Party Wagon replica, and an appearance by the turles themselves. Click here for details . But the bigger news is that The Mirage Group has officially announced that they will be making a new live-action film for 2011.

The new movie will be a Batman Begins-style reboot, showing the origins of the team of crime-fighting mutant turtles. Legendary Pictures will be producing the film, and co-creator Peter Laird is on board as executive producer. Laird says that the new movie “will remain true to the spirit of the original comic books. ” Laird mentions that the new movie might also use a new face replacement technology, which would allow the turtles to be much more expressive. Unless I’m reading the statement wrong, I think this also may confirm that the turtles won’t be completely computer generated.

I’d love to see something more along the lines of the original gritty comic book (shown above), but I also understand that the marketplace for a ninja turtle film skews young, especially when merchandising comes into the equation. I was disappointed by the most recent computer animated TMNT film due to the kiddie tone and feel.  I’m hoping that this new reboot will be treated as a comic book film rather than a kids movie.

Discuss: What would you like to see in a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot?

source: Variety

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  • good lord how many movies are coming out in 2011?
  • vegetax6
    I know! its gonna have sooo many amazing movies!!
  • musicsoup
    gotta cram them all in before the world ends in 2012.

    you distract them and we'll build the rocketships to mars!
  • OMG HOLLYWOOD IS BEHIND IT!!!
  • shelby14
    worlds not gonna end in 2012 idiot!!!!!
  • I don't see this ending well.
  • gah
    Awesome. I hope it's not too dark. I mean, yes the original source is dark but it's really more of a parody of Frank Miller and the dark comics of the 80s. it's got a freaking talking rat in it, i dont know how dark and realistic you can go with that.
  • it has to be a merger of the the mainstream turtles and the comics. I mean..I can't see them giving all of them red masks for example.
  • real og
    Hopefully the parody aspect of the [original] comics shine in the movie as well. 'If we can take a grown man in a bat-costume seriously, mutated turtles shouldn't be too laughable' is the message I would hope to get from this movie. Add some grit to the parody and I'd see it as a comic-to-screen thumbs up.
  • mh
    I hope they make it exactly like the comics that would be awesome to see, them losing each other at casey's place, and having to rebuild that bond. The first movie did a good job on it but I can see an awesome movie. I'm reading them right now.
  • For once I would like to see Leonardo actually use his swords, to you know, cut something...

    I would also like to see the Casey Jones character not be portrayed to be a jackass

    It would also be really cool if the turtles acted like ninjas for once in their careers...
  • casey was awesome in the first movie.
  • The first movie I'll agree with...the other two movies not so much...

    I guess if they do feature Casey in this next movie I would like to see a good scene or two where Casey and Raphael do some major ass kicking on their own without anyone else to play ref.

    Two minutes for high sticking...lets see some heads knocked off for once.
    >= }
  • jimmymac12311
    he wasn't even in the 2nd
  • I always assumed his swords were dull sticks. More like batons.
  • you would think that by the way they're never used!

    Let's think of examples where leo's swords cut things in the movies...

    Movie 1.) The New Turbo Ginsu...It slices, it dices, it (I don't remember what else is said here. Yep real threatening Leo you cut that pizza to shreds but when it comes time to man up at the end when you're fighting the shredder you can't even get an impale going...nice

    Movie 2.) the only thing leonardo stabs here is the ceiling in the beginning of the flick so he can bicycle kick people in the face... yeah that's cool except well you have swords so chopping a head off every now and again wouldn't hurt. If Hiro Nakamora can do it on primetime television so can you.

    3.) Did he even draw a sword in this one?

    4. The animated movie...not bad except the only real good fight sequence in this movie is with raph and this is an instance where you don't want any stabbing or chopping going on and well Leo...you got your ass kicked.

    So plain and simple Leonardo, in this next movie, please slice someone, you're the only turtle who doesn't use his weapons properly... because really your holier than thou attitude isn't going to resonate with audiences for another 25 years if you don't finally man up and stab someone.
  • Chris
    HAHAHAHAHA couldnt have said it better myself...However, would love to see more mikey. Hes a class clown let him bring some laughter into this darker version. leo is a wuss...should come off his high horse and let raph or don take over personally
  • still another stupid 80s "REBOOT" franchise.. no thank you.
  • Obsessive poster
    another stupid "STICK" comment. Get a life.
  • Man 80s reboots are where it's at. Between this, TR2N and Darren Aronofsky's Robocop what more do you possibly want.
  • I'm not a fan of Robocop or other 80s franchises, to be honest.
  • How can you not not like Robocop? Besides some dated stop motion it it's a legitimate good film. People trash it for being on Criterion but it totally deserves it.
  • tmille30
    YAY!! lol, hopefully this will be amazing. i'm not going to expect much, and hopefully be pleasantly surprised.
  • TheMarquis
    If they break out the old rubber suits: yes.
  • noooo
    the original is pretty gritty. its very successful in being a kids movie as it is a gritty new york underbelly crime action flick. but then again, everything that isnt a romance movie appeals to kids.

    But for real, go back and watch the original film and tell me its not badass. i mean, shredders presence alone has more effect than most movie villians alone. also, this movie was an independant film, and not done by a money grubbing studio, so the people who made it had total control over it... which is why its so good in the first place.

    god damn now i want to be available on blue ray.....
  • nelson
    loved the turtles movies as a kid can wait
  • Spence_Mgence
    I am staying hopeful. I grew up on Power Rangers and Ninja Turtles, so hearing this is awesome news. I loved the first two movies (the third doesn't count) and watched the cartoons religiously. I hope they make it as good as I remember those being!
  • Kelt
    Please be PG-13...

    The original comic can easily push an R rating, so anything less than PG-13 would be an epic fail.
  • ofoma100
    the comics would push a PG-13 rating it's not that violent their's little blood and the cussing pg at best
  • Wow they're actually doing it. Groovy. I'm sure it will be 'darker' and 'grittier' and thus lose an entire audience on the fact that Ninja Turtles is about fun comedy antics more than ninja fighting.
  • i want a hardcore rape scene... turtles ftw!
  • gah
    Foursome with April.
  • I totally have a Biker Mice from Mars NC-17 movie sketched out in my head that involves an opening shot of an orgy of mice and women. And it has the highest kill count of any movie ever.
  • JKW
    See, Ninja Turtles is one of the few (if only) properties on the planet that I feel works better being skewed towards children's fare...I know my friends and I grew up on the cheesy late 80's to early 90's cartoon. That and, you know, something about the very concept of teenage...mutant...ninja...turtles...feels more geared towards kids. In an era of gritty realism infused into our suspension of disbelief (a contradiction, I know, but the case in point coming from Nolan's Batman, Bay's Transformers, and I'll even throw in the upcoming GI Joe adaptation), does anybody really want gritty realism thrown onto giant green turtle-men?
  • Not realism or grit, just a good movie. Pixar creates kids movies with excellent character development and storytelling all the time. So I think it can be done with TMNT sans-grit.
  • JKW
    Somebody responded to me saying that the cartoons ruined it for those who grew up on the comics, which is a valid point and probably the reason why trying to reboot the series will inevitably only appease one side of the fanbase (much like how making a pg-13 Batman can't work be too appeasing to the little kids). And the Pixar example is spot on, though I think one of the issues isn't that it can be a kid's movie approached well, but that maybe grit is indeed wanted.
  • musicsoup
    but why not? i just finished watching all the episodes of gi joe resolute on adultswim.com and if the movie is anything as serious as this cartoon, it could be pretty kick ass, while also being marketable and having plenty of merchandising ops. i don't see why we couldn't have a gritty movie about mutant ninja turtle.
  • Brad
    Does anybody really want gritty realism thrown onto giant green turtle-men? Yeah, all the people who loved the turtles from the comics before they got destroyed by that wretched kids show you grew up on. The thing that made the turtles great in the beginning was that contrast between the gritty tone and the goofy subject. Once they started eating pizza and skateboarding it was all over.
  • I've been expecting this. They better do it right this time, and hire a writer/director who can give us a TMNT movie we can be proud of. Like Nolan did with Batman.
  • Nikel
    I feel the same way as you man..I need a TMNT movie I can be proud of. One with real ninja action. And a real comic book feel.
  • Rena
    Hmm for whatever reason I could really go for some pizza right now XD
  • freemachine
    Reboot, yea! :p
  • Sounds like they might use technology similar to that in "Where the Wild Things are"...or maybe they'll just use motion capture.
  • The more I hear the word 'reboot', the less I think Batman Begins was really worth it.
  • it's not Nolan's fault. It's the people thinking that 'rebooting' a certain series of movies will solve everything and thus, oversaturate the market with reboots.
  • Oh no, I'm not blaming it on Nolan, I just hate how it's 'monkey see, monkey do' over there in Hollywood.
  • Brad
    The more I hear about The Dark Knight the less I think Batman Begins was really worth it.
  • ahnmin
    vanilla ice.
  • I can't picture a situation where I won't be seeing this movie when it comes out. Bad or good movie, the Turtles have played too big of role in my childhood for me to shun them now.
  • ColeTrickle
    I thought the same way about transformers.... man was i wrong. I'm definitely not seeing the second michael bay movie. I'll just convince some friends to watch the animated movie with me.
    I love the second Turtles movie btw, "the secret of the ooze". I even made my own toy ooze bottle. So i could play with it when dressed up as a turtle :+
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