Official TMNT 2 Discussion

[Cryomancer]

I'm still fairly convinced the trucks in snow scene was some unfinished unused CG from an unrelated movie that they decided to re-purpose. A good half of the Blue Door script existed just to set up that one scene, like as if they started with "we have this mountain snow scene" and had to make that work with "the TMNT are in New York City".

"Hey we got this semi-finished truck slide effect, what should we do with it?"
"What license can we pick up easy?"

[Commenter 42]

Originally Posted by Cryomancer

I'm still fairly convinced the trucks in snow scene was some unfinished unused CG from an unrelated movie that they decided to re-purpose. A good half of the Blue Door script existed just to set up that one scene, like as if they started with "we have this mountain snow scene" and had to make that work with "the TMNT are in New York City".

"Hey we got this semi-finished truck slide effect, what should we do with it?"
"What license can we pick up easy?"

I don't think the CG was done, per-se, but the rest of it...I couldn't agree more. I put it off to having paid money for a script, and the sleigh ride was the pitch they used to sell the concept. "there's this great scene, like nothing you've EVER seen before". They built the entire movie around the stupid snow scene, because somebody signed off on it in the very beginning. It was the stupid giant Spider of the PD production. Possibly, it was the only set piece they knew they could keep, that didn't revolve around aliens.

They say you should kill your darlings, and this is a textbook example of why.

Some people feel, that nothing you paid for should ever go to wast. Bay, is actually a very cheap person. He cuts corners, like my grandmother did; if you don't eat your lunch, it's your dinner. It will be your breakfast too if you don't force it down. Moldy cheese? Just more flavor. It's not stale if you toast it. Oatmeal and powdered milk will keep you warm all winter.

But yeah, we absolutely got a car built around a bumpersticker.

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by Commenter 42

I don't think the CG was done, per-se, but the rest of it...I couldn't agree more. I put it off to having paid money for a script, and the sleigh ride was the pitch they used to sell the concept. "there's this great scene, like nothing you've EVER seen before". They built the entire movie around the stupid snow scene, because somebody signed off on it in the very beginning. It was the stupid giant Spider of the PD production. Possibly, it was the only set piece they knew they could keep, that didn't revolve around aliens.

Absolutely. Which, again, happens ALL the time. The Snow Chase was the proof-of-concept pitch that got the movie's funding approved... and again, they probably didn't have a single other idea written down by that point. You always have to show the producers the "Money Shot" that's going to eat up most of the budget. That scene HAD to be in; everything else was just stapled onto it piece by piece.

Same reason why Fox HAD to be April; typically, you need One Big Scene, and One Big Name before your movie gets a green light, because it's assumed those two things are what will bring in the customers, all else be damned.

So, it was, "You need that Snow Chase scene, and you need Megan Fox to play April... but otherwise, we completely don't care what you do. Go nuts."