Some insight from inside the TMNT World

[TristanHuwJones]

See, I tend to think that as long as a TV show like FF, BttS and, as the first movies proved, the Old toon are on the air, you're never going to get a movie remotely similar to the comics. There might be some nice nods and all that, but the studios and investors are going to expect what's popular.

Until the comics become popular again, the chances (in my mind anyway) of seeing a faithful Mirage movie are zero and none. Spiderman and the X-men movies all came at a point when there were no TV Shows, same with Begins (the Batman started as a response to its production), which was why they were as faithful to the source material as they were. All there really was at the time was the comics and the toylines (there's your proof that a toyline can continue without a cartoon actually, if a company is willing to try).

I'd love to see a Mirage-y movie probably more than anyone (I even started writing one for fun), but until the comics become better sellers and get the recognition amongst both the fanbase in general and comic stores they deserve, I just don't think it'll happen. That said-- buy the comics people!