Ask PL Vol. 6

*Powder* · 02-11-2012, 01:26 PM

I got the exact sort of answer I was hoping for with this question of mine, laughed out loud, even.

"5. What was (in your opinion) the most absurd proposition that ever came to you regarding the TMNT? For example Kevin Eastman said many obscure products proposals were turned down, like Yarmukles, but I am curious if you declined anything strange other than merchandise (additional series', whether in comic form or animation, alternative media like stage shows, etc)."

I'm sure there are any number of stupid offers that I am not at the moment recalling, but I think one of the goofiest was something that came to us while we were still living in Sharon, Connecticut. This was before any of the mass-merchandising of the TMNT -- we were still about a year or more away from meeting and signing with Mark Freedman of Surge Licensing. A movie company -- I think it was New World, but I am not completely certain of that -- contacted us and said they wanted to license the Turtle property for a live-action movie.

But the way they wanted to do it was to put famous comedians in the Turtle suits, with their faces exposed (painted green, I would imagine, but who knows?). There was, I think, something else about roller-skating nuns with Uzis… but it is all a little vague right now. Suffice it to say, this was NOT any kind of direction we wanted to go with the Turtles, and even though having a movie company interested in our little comic was pretty exciting, we declined the offer. -- PL

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02-11-2012, 01:26 PM	#24
Powder 40 Years of TMNT Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Shell-Ri-La Posts: 26,956	I got the exact sort of answer I was hoping for with this question of mine, laughed out loud, even. "5. What was (in your opinion) the most absurd proposition that ever came to you regarding the TMNT? For example Kevin Eastman said many obscure products proposals were turned down, like Yarmukles, but I am curious if you declined anything strange other than merchandise (additional series', whether in comic form or animation, alternative media like stage shows, etc)." I'm sure there are any number of stupid offers that I am not at the moment recalling, but I think one of the goofiest was something that came to us while we were still living in Sharon, Connecticut. This was before any of the mass-merchandising of the TMNT -- we were still about a year or more away from meeting and signing with Mark Freedman of Surge Licensing. A movie company -- I think it was New World, but I am not completely certain of that -- contacted us and said they wanted to license the Turtle property for a live-action movie. But the way they wanted to do it was to put famous comedians in the Turtle suits, with their faces exposed (painted green, I would imagine, but who knows?). There was, I think, something else about roller-skating nuns with Uzis… but it is all a little vague right now. Suffice it to say, this was NOT any kind of direction we wanted to go with the Turtles, and even though having a movie company interested in our little comic was pretty exciting, we declined the offer. -- PL