Your most mourned undeveloped projects

[Daytona]

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

Unfortunately Murphy’s blog is mostly lost to the sands of time, so I have to go off memory here.

But as I remember it, that was tentatively being planned as a special DTV “movie” (runtime of 45 min to an hour) for the 25th anniversary. It was only cancelled because 4kids convinced Peter to move forward with Turtles Forever.

Also they were going to use Imagi and their character models, so them going out of business surely helped kill this one.

It’s all coming back to me. Good memory you have.

I also want to add the original vision for whatever platinum dunes was gonna be before they chickened out, added fart jokes, abandoned fight scenes, recast Shredder, and dropped the alien reinvention.

Now, I know most of those changes are popular with the fans, at least in theory, but in hindsight the turtles being aliens would have been the least of that movies problems.

Kevin Eastman gets a lot of crap for trying to sell fans on this movie but I genuinely believe he was under the impression they were making something great. They probably showed him the insane effects, told him they were taking inspiration from “Souls Winter”, showed him some of the fight choreography they were cooking up, and blew him away, before panicking and reworking the entire thing.

It’s not my ideal concept for the TMNT but it was a bold vision and probably would have had a more serious tone and sense of drama. And if nothing else it would have been interesting to see, in case I sound crazy.


Back to the alien thing, it doesn’t even bother me anymore. The turtles have past lives in the IDW book and it’s a great new spin on the origin. If they had turned them into straight up aliens while still incorporating the Saki and Yoshi backstory, you could count me in.

The only red flag to me is “General Schrader” or whatever, holy ****. I guess that negates the saki and Yoshi backstory unfortunately.