Turtles next cinematic appearance in 2018's READY PLAYER ONE, directed by Spielberg
 

http://i.imgur.com/RNJoDFe.jpg
(screenshot from teaser trailer)



AV CLUB - "Freddy Krueger, Ninja Turtles, and the Iron Giant collide in the Ready Player One teaser" <--- link to article

There's no way that's a ninja turtle, it has no shell & the limbs are too long.

Yeah, that's not a Ninja Turtle but wow, if not for this thread I would've missed this trailer and it's right up my alley.

Yeah, that's no Ninja Turtle BUT I'M DOWN FOR SOME IRON F*CKING GIANT!

Too skinny.

Eh, the trailer looks boring. Might pass.

Not a turtle.

FAKE Ninja Turtle!

(Curious on the film anyways)

Steven Spielberg
 

Fake, but anyway, it looks nothing like a Steven Spielberg film.

If Steven Spielberg directed TMNT, it would probably be like ET, April (and maybe also Irma) being a child (early primary-elementary school or whatever) befriendind the turtles...

I could see that if every one of his films were literally the same thing, but since they aren't, this is a ridiculous notion.

This is no fake, it's a real movie and it's a Steven Spielberg one too booth, but that things is 100% not a Ninja Turtles nor it's even meant to be one.

It's only the TMNT he's calling fake.

Yeah I went looking through that trailer for The Ninja Turtle that even the Nerdist said was in there, but I couldn't find it.

I'm curious to see them translate the book to the screen, especially given the fact that the book has the ability to name drop a wider variety of geek properties than the movie will ever be allowed to.

If one of the Turtles is in the movie, It'll probably the 90s version.

Probably. The Fred Wolf show needs more homage.

Probably for the best. If Spielberg were to even touch a TMNT in one of his turtle films, I'd proably cry myself to sleep at the unused potential of it all.

It won't let me post the same image in two threads. Anyway if your interested the photo I attached in post #14 of this thread shows a slightly different view and it looks like a little more shell is showing. Reminds me some of a 2007 movie turtle.
http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showthread.php?t=51566

It's not a TMNT.

Got my hopes up. But Spielberg would have my 'permission' to do TMNT, so long as he'd try to stay true to the heart of it.

Eh, I doubt it. Although if they want a kid in it, I'd love for the Turtles to finally be older and maybe a child involved in the film could be April's daughter (or someone else's) instead. (Along for the ride with her four mutant uncles... Actually that sounds fun.)

Even if it was a ninja turtle, I think it would have a role as big as Michealangalo did in the Lego Movie.

Who is that supposed to be that the kid walks by on the left near the beginning? With the mask and the 2 swords across his back? Is that supposed to be Deadpool or Deathstroke or something?

Pretty sure its deadpool. The videos description states that deadpool will be in the movie while theres no mention of Deathstroke.

It's Deathstroke, and next to him is Harley Quinn.

About that "Turtle" it's not a Turtle, it's one of the main character's Avatar, it's just a generic Ninja, nothing more.

Yeah, I thought that was Harley. Kind of a... Arkham Knight Harley, though.

When Spielberg was announced to direct, it made me super happy because he's the only guy in Hollywood with the clout to get even half the Easter egg cameos into the film.

Thaaaat is an angle I hadn't considered!

Neither, I don't think. Just another gunter (egg hunter) in the OASIS rather than an intended reference.

However, http://www.cbr.com/ready-player-one-...first-trailer/ I could be wrong. It says it's Harley and Deathstroke and their image it definitely does look like Harley, so Deathstroke would make sense.

I'm thinking maybe it's both. Two gunters who designed avatars to look like their favorite comic characters. Might be the same for the freddy Krueger and duke nukem looking guys in the trailer too since I don't remember the book mentioning any a.i. versions of characters roaming around outside of their simulated world's but I could be wrong its been awhile since I read it.
About the original post that's definitely not a turtle. My guess is its a random avatar or either shoto or daito two characters that are important to the story. In one of the breakdown videos I watched a dude did say he saw a tmnt floating in the anti gravity club scene though but I couldn't make it out myself. That's actually why I clicked on this thread I thought maybe someone had a clearer picture

Sarcasm? :lol:

starchild anyone? LOL

So, maybe Spielberg should try a TMNT film?

Spielberg's films today aren't really kids films. A Spielberg TMNT of today wouldn't be kiddie orientated. It would probably be political and violent.

Thats what we need more than anything.

The Iron Giant really does need more attention paid....it was pretty dope back in the day.

Are we certain that the trailer didn't show us the totality of the Iron Giant's screentime in the movie?

It seems like people are setting themselves up for disappointment in this.

Yeah, we've already seen all we're gonna see of 95% of these characters. Anyone thinking otherwise is a fool.

Show of hands, who's read the book?

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/st...nt-1202503684/

I have. Probably going to do a re-read closer to the movie release date.

I have. It's f*cking terrible.

Even political?

I listened to the Audiobook, It was really good, its read by Will Wheaton.