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Originally Posted by Krutch
Has anyone on the board actually written a TMNT movie script they care to share?
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I’m currently writing one and have been for a few years.
TMNT script I’m working on
In the past
Splinter is the loyal pet of Hamato Yoshi. He is married Tang Shen his beautiful and gentle hearted wife. Unfortunately, she is desired by an honorless man known as Oroku Hagi. One night Nagi and his younger brother Saki (Saki is in his late teens not 7 years old) break into the house and attack Shen. In the scuffle Splinter’s cage is broken and he runs out to the Dojo to warn Yoshi of what is happening. Hamato Yoshi arrives only to find that his beloved wife already dead at the hands of these two men.
Hamato Yoshi gets into a fight with Nagi and Saki. Splinter jumps from an overhead beam a Saki leaving several scratches on his face. Saki fatally stabs Yoshi from behind, but Yoshi still manages to kill Nagi before he succumbs to death.
The next morning Saki is spinning the story to make it sound like Hamato Yoshi had attacked them without provocation. Splinter alone knows the truth, and because of what he is he knows that his master's death will go unavenged. Alone and homeless he creates a burrow in the sewers.
One year later on a rainy afternoon, a boy is traveling home with a jar containing four infant Turtles when he is narrowly hit by a TCRI truck. In the accident the jar with the boys Turtles go rolling into a sewer drain followed by a container of ooze.
Splinter finds the Turtles covered in the greenish muck and gets covered in the muck himself trying to drag them to his burrow. The next morning he finds he has gained human level intelligence and also that he grown in size. The Turtles have also grown and taken on infantile human attributes. He gathers the four Turtles and raises them as his sons. When the Turtles are around five years old, Splinter learns that Oroku Saki has journeyed to New York. Wanting to avenge his deceased Master, Splinter and his sons stowaway on a freight ship headed to New York, City. While they are journeying away, Donatello asks why they can’t stay in Japan anymore and Splinter just says “One day you will understand”
Present Day
The Turtles are now fifteen years old. Mikey and Raph have their ninja skills to steal pizza because “Three-fingered Ninja Discount”. Neither Leo or Splinter are happy they have done this but decide to partake in the pizza anyway. As he is taking a slice Splinter goes into a fit of wracking coughs. He insists it’s just the cold he has been suffering from and that he is fine. Leo still insists that he should see Donnie anyway.
In truth however Donnie knows Splinter is actually dying. He tells the older rat the others deserve to know the truth. Splinter however insists that Donatello should keep silent about this.
In the meantime April is going to her internship as Stockgen, as she is passing Stockman’s office she overhears him on the phone talking about some recent changes to the MOUSERS. She knows that the team she is involved with is developing the mousers and they are supposed to be informed about any and all changes. Wanting to see these changes she calls up the schematics and finds the MOUSERS have been augmented from being rodent catchers to weapons of espionage.
Knowing this would be serious she downloads the schematics onto a flashdrive and attempts to leave Stockgen so she could mail them to the FBI. The download is noticed by Stockman who at first wants April apprehend and detained. When she escapes into the basement level, he sends a group of MOUSERS after her to eliminate her.
April is chased into the sewers and catches the attention of the Turtles. Raph at first doesn’t think they should do anything about it since it has nothing to do with them. Mikey doesn’t like the idea of just letting someone die when they could do something about it. Leo then says that if the woman’s body is found it would get people coming to the sewers to learn about what caused her death and potentially cause them to find their lair.
The Turtles destroy the MOUSERS and drag a seriously wounded April to their lair so her injuries can be tended to. Donnie also collects one of the damaged mousers to study it. Unknown to the Turtles, one of the MOUSERS manages to reboot itself and runs back to Stockgen to report its findings.
At the lair Mikey looks through her jacket and finds the flashdrive. Donnie in tending to April’s injuries and has several lights on to block her from seeing him effectively. Splinter notices the human woman and the other turtles inform him of what happened while Donnie continues to fix her injuries.
Back at Stockgen, Karai and Hun pay Stockman a visit so he can suffer the consequences of this blunder. Stockman insists he took care of it, but Karai tells him he has no proof the girl is dead. Stockman tries to appease them by showing them the images of the Turtles taken by the damages MOUSER. Karai and Hun are intrigued, but Stockman still has a few fingers amputated.
The Turtles carry April to a place where she would be found by other humans. They stay close to be certain she is in safe hands. She is found by Casey Jones. April is groggy and confused, but feels she just needs to get home not go to the hospital.
Donnie is up later looking through April’s flashdrive on his lap top. Splinter comes in the kitchen for some tea and asks Donnie why he is still up. Donnie explains and mentions seeing a name that frequently appears in the notes for the schematics. Splinter tells his son to let it rest until the morning. When Donnie leaves Splinter glances at the screen sees the name “Shredder”.
Stockman is in the sewers leading a hunt with several foot soldiers to collect the pieces of the MOUSERS and find the body of April O’ Neil. While he does find traces of blood there is no sign of a body indicating the possibility of her still being alive. He notices the tracker of one of the MOUSERS is some distance away and smirks to himself as that means it’s the lair of the Turtles. He takes a couple foot soldiers with him and slips away and to find where the Turtle creatures are hiding.
An alarm goes off in the lair waking all the Turtles and Splinter up. Donnie says that it's the perimeter alarm. Raph grumbles it’s probably another homeless person looking for a dry place to camp for the night. Donnie calls up the security cameras from his laptop and sees Stockman. Leonardo recognizes him from the news. Mikey unleashes one of the security traps which causes a flood of raw sewage gush through the tunnels flushing Stockman and the Foot Soldiers away. They are all emerge from a tunnel outside the city.
The Turtles wants to know what would bring people to their lair in the middle of the night. Raph says he has an idea of what they were looking for and comes back with the MOUSER that Donnie had picked up. He throws it on the table and demands to know if Donnie scanned the thing for tracking devices. Donnie shamefully admits he hadn’t yet. He had just left it in his lab with the intent of studying it in the morning.
Raph starts to get indignant with Donnie for being so careless, Leo tells his brother to calm down. Though it is clear he is anything but happy with all that has been going on in the last several hours.
Splinter points out that these machines were after April O’Neil for a reason. There is obviously something that Stockman and whoever is backing him does not want revealed. Raph respond by breaking the MOUSER and then throwing it’s remains into a disposal pipe that would sweep it as far away from the lair. Splinter points that their enemy will still return regardless. Mikey points out that Donnie’s cloaking devices and security precautions would make short work of them. Leo however points out that even the best security systems are not completely failsafe. And they should make plans to evacuate the lair temporarily. Donnie agrees and points out what he was able to learn from the flashdrive April had with her that the robots are called MOUSERS. And the person funding their creation is someone who calls themselves the Shredder.
Splinter tells his sons he believes he knows who the Shredder could be and tells them the story about how he first met them and why they left Japan. Majority of the Turtles are unnerved by this and agree the Shredder is an evil that needs to be brought to justice. Donnie on the other hand is distressed that all this time Splinter had been raising them to be his agents of vengeance. Leo tries to get his brother to see reason, but Donnie just gets up and goes to his lab.
Raph makes a comment about Donnie being ineffective as a Ninja. Splinter admonishes his sons and points out that Donatello has his own battles to fight in this. And suspects that when everything is said and done they all will be facing their demons.
Mikey speaks up and points out that if Stockman and the thugs with him were getting the pieces of the MOUSERS that were attacking April. Then wouldn’t they suspect she was still alive since there wasn’t a body. Splinter agrees that yes, they probably are aware April O’Neil is still alive and they will attempt to eliminate her again.
Leo feels that they should go find her before Stockman sends thugs to do so. Splinter however says there is no need, because she will find them.
The next day April attends her college courses like normal. But she isn’t paying attention to the lessons as she keeps playing over what happened the previous day in her head and keeps seeing four vaguely human shapes appear. Her school friend Irma tells her someone on the school messageboard interested in having her tutor them. April calls the person to arrange a meetup with a girl named Angel Bridge.