What plot for the movie would satisfy TMNT fans? (And my ideas for 'Ninja Turtles')

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Nice. I think yhey should bring Irma April's assistent, and let the turtles befriend both of them at the same time.

[Panda_Kahn_fan]

I think Irma as april's assistant would be a very cool idea, as are a lot of the ideas here. Better than regurgitating Mirage #1 and 'Return to new york' elements yet again.

[Jephael]

I've said this before and I'll say it again: No Ninja Turtle movie will ever please everyone because there are different factions of fans who only like certain incarnations.

[RaphAndDonnie]

Originally Posted by Panda_Kahn_fan

-April discovers something about the mutagen. Baxter, wanting to silence the reporter, hires the street gang the Purple Dragons to 'eliminate her. But when they attack her in an alley, where she is saved by four green ninja defenders, out for thier first adventure to the surface world. She promptly faints, and is taken back to thier lair.

I like it, except maybe no fainting. The fainting is pretty cliche by now. Maybe she actually talks to them and walks back to the lair with them.

Originally Posted by Panda_Kahn_fan

-Before they can escape, Baxter moves to confront the turtles for ruining everything. Exposing himself to a vile of the mutagen, Baxter mutates himself into an oversized fly monster, and in the movies climatic battle, fights all for turtles while tearing through the labratory. In the end, the turtles cause the labratory to explode, killing the fly creature, and destroying all the remamining mutagen with him.

^This idea just screams yes to me

[Panda_Kahn_fan]

Originally Posted by RaphAndDonnie

I like it, except maybe no fainting. The fainting is pretty cliche by now. Maybe she actually talks to them and walks back to the lair with them.


^This idea just screams yes to me

Thanks! I've always been upset that Baxter never got a shot at being a villian in the movies, so this allows for him to be mirage/2k3/IDW Baxter for most of the film, then go OT as a fly monster at the end, turning him into a credible threat for all 4 turtles.

And I just thought it would make more sense to create all the mutants this movie and it's sequels would use at once, then blow the mutagen to kingdom come so it can't be used as a plot device down the road.

And yeah, the faintings been overdone!

[Cipher]

That sound all right, but this is my idea for a Ninja Turtles movie:

It is the year 2025. China has invaded America. Once great civilizations now stand upon the brink of ruin.

This is the world Leonardo Ninjaroni was raised in. Now working as a smart-mouthed American secret agent in the employ of the Chinese emporer, Hun-Li Chu, Leo has a lot on his plate, with the recent disappearance of the Australian diplomat, Splinter Smith. And when Hun-Li Chu uses him to get the access codes to former UN nukes, it's up to Leonardo, condename: Turtle, to work with his four brothers, Mike, Don, Raphael and Venus, to bring the emporer down before he takes control of the world's water supply, all while trying to win the love of childhood friend April O'Neil. There's just one catch to Operation Technodrome: He's going to have to break into New York prison, to break his brothers out.

Pretty good, huh? What do you think?

[ToTheNines]

Duder's drunk!

[Cipher]

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

Duder's drunk!

Damn, you're right. I should've made my own thread for it.

[MoreCowbell5263]

Yeah, pretty much anything that treats the characters with respect, takes the subject matter seriously, but not TOO seriously. Have a sense of humor. That's something I don't care for in the Nolan Batman movies: takes themselves way too seriously, and the humor feels entirely forced.

Ninja Turtles are a really goofy concept to non-fans, and it's the humor that really lets non-fans' guards down enough to enjoy the movie. But you can't do what Bay does with the Transformers movies and make it too goofy and childish at times or people won't respect the franchise. I have friends who really like Transformers because of the Autobots characters, but focusing on the human characters and making the Autobots more often than not just explain the exposition and make a few jokes makes it difficult for outsiders like myself to see in Transformers what my friends do.

The first movie really did a great job of feeling dark and gritty, yet breaking the tension with some nice humor (humor that is witty enough for people of most ages to enjoy, not just childish prat falls and 'your mom' jokes).

[Spitfire]

What I want would most likely appeal to comic fans more then anyone but I'd write it in such a way that general audiences would like it as well. I'm not blind to the fact that an R rated TMNT movie would be a really bad idea but a PG-13 one written with intelligence isn't out of the question. And no I don't want "Nolan" style turtles. That implies I want the film to claim it's realistic even though it couldn't be further from it and the lead actors think shouting constantly and talking like they have a sinus infection constitutes as being intimidating. I also like hearing the dialogue in movies, not the score hogging all the audio, and never stopping the entire movie. People who think you can stamp Nolan's trademark "gritty/realistic" style onto fantasy and sci-fi franchises clearly don't know much about tone or what colors mix well together so to speak.

[Panda_Kahn_fan]

agree with most of you here, in that I want a movie that respects the intellegence of TMNT fans, the senario I suggested I chose because;

-It is an origin that respects the source material, but not slavishly loyal to it (despite that what some fans are often zealous about)

- uses characters we've never seen before in an adaptation, and finds a way to work many of them in, even just as cameoes.

-it's an origin, while not being a regurgitation of Mirage volume 1 (issue one smooshed together with return to new york) like the first movie was.

-I feel there is nothing wrong with drawing stories and elements from other versions of the turtles besides the Mirage source material. When a legend or syory is retold, it picks up new elements and characters with each retelling. Elements that become a fixed part of future retellings. Myths and legends that cannot change and evolve and adhere to a set original version of a myth like a creed become stagnant. If you have a deep well of mythology that has grown up around your source material, there is nothing wrong with dipping into it for future retellings.

[Xav]

True though I still think there are plenty of Mirage based stuff we haven't seen on screen yet. Stockman and the Mousers, the Rat King, Leatherhead, Utroms, Triceratons, City at War etc.