Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes to produce new Turtles movie

[Archon_Turtle]

Originally Posted by Cipher

That would be fine. All of the money and hype with none of the stupid. Probably.

Famous last words

[plastroncafe]

Originally Posted by PizzaFan87

There is, however, a bright side to Bay's involvement. We might finally get to see Krang and the Technodrome on the big screen. Bay needs an excuse to 1) blow things up and 2) get the military involved. So, what better villain than Krang?

Another positive thing is the voice actors. Bay did hire Peter Cullen for Transformers. So, could we expect actors like Rob Paulsen and James Avary to join the cast?

This may or may not be the best place to ask this question, but...
Can Nick/Viacom even use Krang? Doesn't Wolf still retain the rights to him?

As for Cullen's involvement in the Transformers movies, I was lead to believe that he was only included in the cast after word got leaked that Bay wasn't intending on using him and the fanbase went apes#it.

[PizzaFan87]

Originally Posted by plastroncafe

Can Nick/Viacom even use Krang? Doesn't Wolf still retain the rights to him?

Krang appeared in Turtles Forever, so I assume that they could use him.

As for Cullen's involvement in the Transformers movies, I was lead to believe that he was only included in the cast after word got leaked that Bay wasn't intending on using him and the fanbase went apes#it.

Well, fans better start making some noise.

[cartoonistaaron]

As long as he keeps the Turtles the Turtles - no drastic character changes, not too dark and heavy - this could be pretty cool. I kinda like the first Transformers though it was a little "talky."

If he has anything to do with Krang being in it, I'll love Michael Bay forever (in a masculine manly way).

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by PizzaFan87

Me too. It is true that Michael Bay is not directing, but Platinum Dunes does not have a good track record. That is unless someone considers their remakes of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm Street to be very good.

I haven't seen any of these three yet, but I was told that the last two actually were good.

[Powder]

Originally Posted by PizzaFan87

There is, however, a bright side to Bay's involvement. We might finally get to see Krang and the Technodrome on the big screen. Bay needs an excuse to 1) blow things up and 2) get the military involved. So, what better villain than Krang?

This is your brightside?! MEH! God forbid! This film better not stray too far from the comics or I'm gonna be unpleasureable to be around. In case you didn't know bud, this movie is to be somewhat based on the first issue of the original comics AKA the no krang, no bebop, no rocksteady, no technodrome, no pizza, & dead shredder version.

[Mutated Turtle]

Originally Posted by Powder

This is your brightside?! MEH! God forbid! This film better not stray too far from the comics or I'm gonna be unpleasureable to be around. In case you didn't know bud, this movie is to be somewhat based on the first issue of the original comics AKA the no krang, no bebop, no rocksteady, no technodrome, no pizza, & dead shredder version.

Same here.

[sdp]

We already have a movie based on vol.1 #1.

[Powder]

Originally Posted by sdp

We already have a movie based on vol.1 #1.

Lol if you think that movie is at all accurate or even close, you're buggin'.

[plastroncafe]

Originally Posted by PizzaFan87

Krang appeared in Turtles Forever, so I assume that they could use him.

That's an awful big assumption to be making. Turtles Forever was a group project between Wolf, 4Kids, and Mirage. Unless I've missed something, I don't believe any rights from Wolf have changed hands since the Mirage sale to Viacom.

Anyone have more clarification on this?

[PizzaFan87]

Originally Posted by Powder

This film better not stray too far from the comics

Originally Posted by pipsqueak

Same here.

The comics were pretty out there as well. Early in the series they introduced the Utroms which were basically the same thing as Krang.

[Mutated Turtle]

Originally Posted by PizzaFan87

The comics were pretty out there as well. Early in the series they introduced the Utroms which were basically the same thing as Krang.

*Ahem*........

[Roseangelo]

Originally Posted by plastroncafe

That's an awful big assumption to be making. Turtles Forever was a group project between Wolf, 4Kids, and Mirage. Unless I've missed something, I don't believe any rights from Wolf have changed hands since the Mirage sale to Viacom.

Anyone have more clarification on this?

Turtles Forever was just 4Kids and Mirage, not Fred Wolf.

Mirage owned all of the characters from the OT, so Nick now owns all of them. Fred Wolf only owns the series itself.

[PizzaFan87]

Originally Posted by pipsqueak

*Ahem*........

My point is that the comics also went in the sci-fi route and very early on. So, Krang wouldn't exactly be unfaithful to the tone of the comics. If Michael Bay decides to adapt the `87 series he won't use the same comedic/slapstick tone. He didn't do that with Transformers. Krang would be a serious villain and the Technodrome would be a serious threat to the city of New York with lots of Bayplosions.

[sdp]

Originally Posted by Powder

Lol if you think that movie is at all accurate or even close, you're buggin'.

Its close enough that a movie being 100% accurate would be retreading the same ground.

[PizzaFan87]

The 1990 movie was the right one for its time. It combined elements of the comics and `87 series.

[Powder]

Originally Posted by PizzaFan87

The 1990 movie was the right one for its time. It combined elements of the comics and `87 series.

Correctomundo. It was 50/50 as far as the content combo goes. I'm sayin' the OG isn't close to being directly based on the comics except for the fact that there is an origin, & splinter falls off of a roof. Thats about it. If anything its just a darker take on the cartoon with a few creative liberties; I.E. Casey Jones coming in right from the start, the addition of Tatsu, & so forth.

[Andrew NDB]

1. People whining about Bay inserting explosions and nonsense are just knee-jerking, and otherwise aren't really well versed in the politics or track record of Platinum Dunes.

2. There's nothing stopping anybody from including any characters from the OS cartoon in the movies and there never has been -- except Kevin and Peter, and thank god for them doing so (in fairness though, it's not like their exclusion helped the last few movies suck any less than they did, though).

3. A studio like Platinum Dunes -- having put out the very grown-up films they have and quite successfully -- is nothing but a huge, huge boon for this reboot movie. For the first time we may be looking at a situation where the people heading up the movie can look TPTB (Paramount/Viacom/Nick) in the eye and tell them, "We want to make this movie our way" (be it -- gasp -- PG-13) and they might not get a great deal of argument back.

4. Sorry, Krang in a new TMNT movie reboot would be b*******. No offense, Krang.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Powder

It was 50/50 as far as the content combo goes.

Yeah, 50% solid and 50% solid... excrement.

Which is still a hell of a lot better ratio than TMNTs Parts 2, 3, and 4.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by sdp

Its close enough that a movie being 100% accurate would be retreading the same ground.

Nonsense. And even if you were right and "Danny & The Troubled Kids: The Motion Picture" was, no one throwing money at this new movie is going to be worried about "retreading the same ground" from a movie that came out 22 years before it.