New Hallmark Movie News
 

Check out the Blast from the Past #67 under Woo Hoo #3. Laird says that they have made sculpts of the TMNT and Splinter for the live action movie on the Hallmark Channel!!

I wasn't even aware that this was confirmed. This is great news indeed.

Most of you probably know where to go to get to the "Blasts" but here:

www.ninjaturtles.com/

or
www.planetracers.com/blast/blast67.html

Sweet! I didn't even know any work was being done on that. :D

Eeesh....anyone else become less than excited when they hear the words TMNT and Hallmark together?

Why oh why did that cgi film have to be canned...and will Jim Henson Creature shop even be involved with this 'made for cable special'? Hopefully a theatrical film proper will be in production before too long...though I CANNOT see a TMNT film done without the Jim Henson Creature Shop.

Actually... I'm quite excited about this Hallmark mini-series. I think they can pull it off. No, I'm not too thrilled that Hallmark is producing TMNT, but I'm not gonna criticize it until I start seeing sneak peeks (like the toon).

Why is it bad that Hallmark is doing the miniseries? I don't know anything about the company.

Hallmark is mainly a politically-correct-family-oriented channel. Lots of warm-fuzzy-feeling tv shows and movies. I don't see how the Turtles can even fit into there, although Hallmark does air Hawaii Five-O. That sort of surprises me.

I'm going to assume that if the Turtles air on Hallmark, it won't be "ninja kick butt action". More like "Leonardo, struggling with mixed feelings about his very existance, takes a enlightening journey as advised by his spiritual teacher, Splinter, and discovers the strength within himself to accept his physical beauty even though he may be viewed as grotesque by the rest of the human race."

:dead:


- Cher

Oh.... Now I see... This is starting to worrie me...

probably wont be much fighting either

Hallmark also did the recent Dinotopia Mega series. No comment on it though since none of the stories were based on the book. You do see some people get eaten by Dinos though. Anyway back to the topic. Why is this some made for TV movie? I thought John Woo signed up to do a CG movie? I know the CG TV SHOW was canned for a regular hand drawn show, but did the movie get cancelled as well? THAT WOULD SUCK!!!! I WANT THE 4th MOVIE!!

The only thing we can do now is sit back and wait...

Actually, John wo was never goint to do it. It was misunderstood, they had a contract with Digital Rim(John wo is one of the main partners of the compnay) So some people tough that He was going to direct it, that's how the rumors got started. But unafortunately, the contract didn't work out in the end, and the CGI movie was scrapped. So did the CGI tv series.

At first it was said that the CGI on hallmark would combine CGI and Live action, and that Steve Barron would direct[ :D ] it, But im not sure if that is true anymore.

Is the hall mark really a channel that won't allow violent shows?

i have no real knowledge or opinion about hallmark, but due to peter laird's involvement in this next turtle era everything is looking for the better, the new toon already seems better than the old one, and i don't think laird would do a non-action tmnt mini-series

Well I think he is ready to make compromises to get TMNT in to air. But Im sure he wont let anything like Next mutation happen ever again.

will the new mini series be a family show?

Hopefully not...

exactly. Im not interested at all in this...Hallmark? Sheesh...why not Fox? They are already on Fox?

Well they might Have Steve Barron directing it, That was said over a year ago, But then it was official. If he will do it, Im sure It can't be really bad. Is that hallmark channel really that bad? isn't there any action shows on the network?

I think they show the original He-Man and the Master of the Universe, and as TerranigmaFreak said earlier they did the Dinotopia series which was not that great story wise but had alot of action and great special effects.

So It is possible that the New TMNT miniseries will be good. Especially if Steve Barron is directing.

Now we go on to discuss the possibilities of the film! If Steve Barron is directing, do you think he'll start from the begining with the origin (that would be cool), continue from the forth film (hope not), or (this is my favorite of the three posibilities) continue from HIS Turtle movie, forgetting 2&3.


Please, please let it be him directing! The first Ninja Turtle film is one of the best movies ever!

I guess it will be a completely new story. This is what reads in IGN:

Wait up guys. I may stand alone here, but I have seen one or two good Hallmark series, both involving Murder and viloence. Even Alice in Wonderland (which I didn't like) was pretty dark. They did Arabian Nights with all it's betrayal and murderous plots, and while their effects aren't up to Hollywood standards, they still look great for TV. I'll be open to it, especially with Steve Barron involved.

LOL, I did a search for Steve Barron on IMDB, and as it turned out, he did work on the Arabian Nights series, and I liked the way that one turned out.

You know that Steve Baroon directed the only good TMNT movie to date right? Well That news is over a year old, but if it is true, Im sure it will be good, no matter what network.

Oh yeah, I'd say the first TMNT film is one of my favorite top 3 films of all time.(I dont even own the horrific TMNT 2, 3, or TNM movie) To get the original director back would be too cool!

TMNT 1 = Best of all

TMNT 2 = Not too bad, but not too good either

TMNT 3 = I should kill myself for mentioning it!

I can see them disreguarding the third one, but I liked how the second one revealed the origin of the ooze. Maybe they'll just disreguard the whole Vanilla Ice fiasco.

It will probably be a completely new start. There would be no point in continuing the the first movies.

Yeah, I know they will. It's just like how they're doing the new animated series.

The thing is though, people seem to have this odd knack for calling the next motion picture TMNT 4, which would obviously make it look like the next in the original series of movies

That is true.. It will probably be called a fourth movie.

I don't see why they can't just consider calling it a remake.

Maybe it has a suntitle of some sort. That would make things easier..

Heh, could be really bad and be a prequel, like Ninja Turtles: before the ooze....

If they did the prequel, it would be overly boring. Considering in TMNT 1, Leo talks to Splinter and says they won their first battle. Meaning they didn't do crap before that tiff with the dudes opressing April.

Hallmark probably won't screw up....Their channel plays Alf, and who doesn't like a hairy puppet that talks about eating "Cats" all the time. It's funny because Hallmark didn't notice the underlying joke behind Alf always wanting to eat "Cats". Maybe they did notice, then I'f have a lot of faith in Hallmark.

As long as the turtles don't start babbling off ebonics, it should be good.

Yup, I knew he directed it, and at the time, I was saddened that he was out for the second and third.

That, JHC wasnt as involved, and they were filmed in the horrific early 90's...all ingredients for disaster!

But why was TMNT one so good? Filmed in 1989 with that cool director and the Jim Henson Company, featured a very dark and edgy style and feel and was before they politically corrected the series with TMNT 2.
I mean what kid at the time wouldnt wanna hang out in a massive arcade/foot clan dojo? Sure beats going to a horrible night club to see Vanilla Ice.

But yeah, a prequel would just suck. In my mind it would either be a whole new film series like Episode One(err, ok...NOT like the Star Wars Episodes)
or the real TMNT 2;)

What do you mean wasn't "as" involved? They either were or weren't.

I don't think he was involved at all in TMNT 2 or 3.

No he wasn't. There were some animosities between he and the studio, but I'm not sure what it was or why. Movie news wasn't as easily available as it is now.

They probably didn't like all the violence in TMNT 1, The first movie was an independant film, was it not?