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12-10-2017, 12:15 PM | #1 |
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A pitch perfect Issue 1 adaptation on the big screen.
What do you think of this idea?
It would be a step by step telling of issue 1 of the Mirage comics (even more than the 1990 film) with obscure details such as the character of Oroku Nagi being implemented in order to make the film as faithful as possible. No loosening up on the source material, just a pitch perfect live action or animated adaptation for the big screen with maybe more scenes in order to give the film more length and depth, but in the same spirit as the original comics. I would love to see this done. |
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I think the concept would have more legs as a Nettflix or Amazon limited series.
Do you think hardcore Mirage TMNT without any nostalgic FW elements would get enough normies into the average movie theater to make a profit?
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While I would love to see something turtle related set in the Mirage universe, I'd really rather prefer it not be another origin story. At least not at the outset.
That issue has been reprinted so many times, and every comic movie starts with an origin story of some sort. I'd be far more interested in something that started at another time point, and then reflected back on the origin. For instance, start with The Foot's attack on April's building. We get good character stuff from all the guys, Splinter, and April. It's Casey's first appearance to the rest of the main cast. We'd get to see the Foot actually be competent, and Shredder be menacing. Good action, and a decent sting as they drive to NoHo. Then that whole first season is the rebuilding, and then we can revisit the origin story. Maybe Casey learns it from April....I dunno.
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12-10-2017, 02:54 PM | #5 |
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I dunno it would take a lot of padding to turn a 40 page comic into a feature length film.
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Although a movie without April and Casey would be weird, I still think it has potential and won't run into the problem of having characters under-developed due to there being too many of them. Last edited by FredWolfLeonardo; 12-10-2017 at 03:30 PM. |
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12-10-2017, 03:35 PM | #7 |
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Why not make it short film?
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This is the problem I see with trying to turn it into a movie. I think it would be better to combine issues 1 and 2 of Mirage into a movie
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12-10-2017, 04:24 PM | #9 |
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This is initially what I was thinking about as well, but I feel issue 1 would be better as a standalone movie as it would be weird in my opinion having the big bad eliminated halfway through the film and then introduce April and Baxter in the second half.
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12-14-2017, 01:37 PM | #10 |
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If there's an audience for a Michael Bay produced TMNT there's an audience for something more faithful like a Mirage adaptation.
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12-14-2017, 01:41 PM | #11 |
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Yeah, I think just the title "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is going to attract people, regardless of whether it is Mirage or Platinum Dunes.
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But I did see it. To be honest any TMNT with money spent on it would have been a success back in the Turtlemania of 1990. We were just lucky that we got a great film. |
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Common sense: "No sh**!" Because guess what will happen to people if/when such a project happens? A lot more people will know about Mirage. It's a very stupid argument. It'd be like, when they were making the Fred Wolf show, someone saying, "I dunno... this cartoon sounds pretty risky! Not a lot of people know about these Turtles, with the camp and rainbow bandannas and wackiness. People only know about the Mirage comic!" Do you think that's a conversation that happened? Or ever happens? Make stuff that's not sh**, throw a decent marketing campaign behind it, people will generally check it out.
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As the saying goes, if you never try, you'll never know.
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12-16-2017, 03:56 AM | #16 | |
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I get that Mirage is your bread and butter, but you don’t seem to be looking at it objectively. Look, I could be completely wrong, but the Mirage comics are such a tonal shift from what the general audience has been fed for decades that I wonder if it can really work. And the Batman comparisons don’t stand very well either. It took Batman nearly 70 years to get something like Batman Begins, and even then it was after years and years of entertainment moving that way. You don’t get Nolan without Burton. |
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Batman 66'=FW TMNT My point being is if Batman can over come the labeling of campy/goofy stereotypes for its franchise so can TMNT.
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