5 years after Viacom buys the turtles, thoughts?

[Galactus]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

But the point is if Mirage still owned it we wouldn't be getting anything right now. Peter Laird can't even bother to finish Volume 4. And the 4kids series concluded.

We were literally dead in the water with Mirage.

I don't get why people think this?

The was movie deal in place. It was the deciding factor for Nickelodeon purchasing the franchise if I recall correctly because the work had been done.

There was also some talk of licensing the comic rights to company like Dark Horse to do their own series as well as reprints of Mirage material.

The only thing missing would have been an animated series and while Laird may not have wanted to dip his toe in it so soon after the 4kids series but I think it would have happened sooner rather than later.

Originally Posted by slashpieturtlemix

Plus the writer was obviously a fan because he tossed in some awesome tmnt jokes for us (like the tcri container, the joke about it being from space, etc).

I don't think we can definitively prove that wrong but I'm sure I can make a good case.

What little interviews we had with Nemec and Applebaum they obviously didn't say so but they never portrayed themselves as big fans and I don't know if you've read the leaked Blue Door script they wrote but I don't think anyone would come away thinking that was written by fans.

Perhaps the biggest case for this is the third writer (Evan Daughtery) was brought in to help tweak their script because he had some knowledge of the franchise. That pretty much supposes that the other two had little to no TMNT knowledge.

As for the various callbacks Jonathan Liebesman himself said that he and his people eventually skimmed through TMNT related things online specifically for easter eggs to add. While neat to have I would have preferred they'd based their actual story on TMNT.

[Leo656]

"It's just a toy movie, we can do this. Nobody's gonna care." That was 100% their approach to writing the movie. They figured all they had to do was get the names right, and the marks would fall in line and fall in love with it.

Shamefully, a decent number of people proved their assumptions correct.