Another movie from Platinum Dunes in the works - new writer hired

[IndigoErth]

Yeah, and half of OotS problem was that it simply came second. (The other half of course being its own badly written story, etc.)

Originally Posted by frank_one

Today is all about the money, absolutely nothing else. Not just for the Turtles. The bigger the company is, the less they care. We, as consumers, should give our money to smaller company, better people.

Makes me wish fans could all be shareholders in the property... Might make film makers a bit more willing to take the general consensus a little more seriously.

Originally Posted by Leo656

I'll never understand the recent trend of people hating origin stories. Historically, they're usually the best and most interesting story in a characters' entire catalog; it's generally downhill from there, or at least meandering and repetitive.

I mean, I guess I can almost understand the, "But I've seen it a thousand times!" perspective, but... I'unno. They're necessary. ((shrug))

I dunno, simple boredom and the film industry's really high likelihood of effing it up just to be different if it's a franchise that has been done in film at least once already?

Can't trust these people anymore... They all seem eager too run off with some big, ridiculous idea of how to make something good/cool/new/whatever when they could not give less of a rat's ass about a franchise in their hands and don't even get why some of their ideas may be terrible.


And PD... Focusing mostly on making things explode, be flashy and fast paced, adding expensive cars, building a movie around one action scene etc., is REALLY not enough. Being as superficial about it as possible is NEVER going to be enough.




I still REALLY really think PD's safest bet, if we're stuck with this hack of a company, is to just time skip forward, keep an origin recap very brief if they must go there, and tell a new story about some other time in the Turtle's lives post-Shredder. Can't trust these people to not twist and screw up what already exists so it may be safer to go with a whole new adventure for them... So long as it is one that suits them.

Some who want to see the same tales over and over may complain, but it would otherwise be hard to judge and nitpick an entirely new story anywhere near as much, provided the characterization is done well enough. In some way I wish they'd just do a good live action crossover with another property as it would force them to go with a more original story.