Could a b&w Mirage-styled TMNT Netflix show work?

*Galactus* · 06-11-2014, 06:30 PM

In an ideal world hell yes but realistically speaking the prospects of Viacom green lighting anything Mirage-esque aren't that bright and more importantly the turtles being the kind of characters they are it would be a big budget that I'm unsure they'd want to chance on such a project.

But...

Considering that Smallville, a show about the Superman mythos without any actual Superman ran for ten years and now we're getting Gotham a show about the Batman mythos without Batman is happening maybe something similar could be done with turtles.

A netflix mini series about say Detective Miller from Tristan Jones' popular Tales of TMNT stories or a similar character investigating the Foot as it's gearing for war and mysterious creatures with the turtles being on the peripheral. I know a lot of people including myself don't want that for the movie but this context it would be good to focus on the human characters.

You could also have Laura Stanton or again a similar character investigating the same things from a journalist point of view.

You can touch on Casey Jones, Karai, Hun, Baxter Stockman pretty anything in the turtles mythos.

If it did well it would show them there is a market for a proper turtles-centric followup.

I know this is still a pipe dream but ever so slightly less so than a full on Mirage mini series.

06-11-2014, 06:30 PM	#12
Galactus Foot Elite Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 3,009	In an ideal world hell yes but realistically speaking the prospects of Viacom green lighting anything Mirage-esque aren't that bright and more importantly the turtles being the kind of characters they are it would be a big budget that I'm unsure they'd want to chance on such a project. But... Considering that Smallville, a show about the Superman mythos without any actual Superman ran for ten years and now we're getting Gotham a show about the Batman mythos without Batman is happening maybe something similar could be done with turtles. A netflix mini series about say Detective Miller from Tristan Jones' popular Tales of TMNT stories or a similar character investigating the Foot as it's gearing for war and mysterious creatures with the turtles being on the peripheral. I know a lot of people including myself don't want that for the movie but this context it would be good to focus on the human characters. You could also have Laura Stanton or again a similar character investigating the same things from a journalist point of view. You can touch on Casey Jones, Karai, Hun, Baxter Stockman pretty anything in the turtles mythos. If it did well it would show them there is a market for a proper turtles-centric followup. I know this is still a pipe dream but ever so slightly less so than a full on Mirage mini series.