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Originally Posted by Panda_Kahn_fan
Bay and Platinum Dunes must be scrapped. They need to be kicked off of TMNT, and a new development studio must be brought in. I'd personally love to see Golden Harvest again, but Paramount can partner with anyone from Legendary pictures to lionsgate. Bring in producers and a director who knows martial arts films, and can give TMNT the treatment it deserves- someone like Tsui Hark. Bring in people who can bring real passion to the project.
The public's trust must be won back. Commercials and ads must show the TMNT with their classic designs, doing real martial arts, no fanservice-y Megan fox or fart jokes. The next movie can have humor, but it has to take itself seriously. Also, this needs to be a TMNT film that will appeal to nearly everyone- not fandom-faction pandering B.S. focusing on any one version or past incarnation. It needs to appeal to the widest audience possible, and while it can't be the TMNT movie everyone has dreamed of, it can at least please the most amount of people possible in a reasonable way.
Anything but this, and there is a high chance it'll fall flat on it's face. The biggest reason my friends who are TMNT fans didn't go see the second one was the disgust left over from the first. That trust needs to be won back, before this series can live again.
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There is no way to please everyone. Usually things that aim to please too wide a range of people ("Hey, this can be a summer R-rated action film, with some jokes for kids on the side, a nice romance, and a Western for a sub-plot to please the elderly. Let's add some horror and aliens, too! And tease a superhero appearing in the sequel!") fail horribly. I just would say to think about the best movie they possibly can, and THEN think about who it's for. Honestly, with a TMNT movie, you can aim for a wide range of demographics, but I think making it a children's movie insures more financial success because of the amount of young fans.
So, since so many TMNT fans are younger, I would advocate for a movie that can please them and adult fans/casuals. It would have lots of action, nods to other incarnations, such as previous movies and the comics, and a ton of Easter eggs for die-hard fans to find. I'd want it to have a darker story, maybe adapting something from Mirage or IDW, but give the story a new twist to make it interesting. But I don't want this to be like the Platinum Dunes movies (which I do happen to enjoy) and completely copy another version of TMNT (PD is pretty much the OT). This should create an entirely new version of TMNT, like what the cartoons do each time (not every cartoon is just the OT re-hashed with the same designs, humor, characters, stories, etc.)