Brad Fuller talks about the TMNT Movie

[TigerClaw]

Just noticed this new interview with Brad Fully talking about the TMNT movie, Here's what he had to say about it.
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I don’t know a single kid who did not like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

That’s nice. That’s awesome, because that’s who we made it for and I’m glad. I keep hearing that it’s more gratifying than saying we scared the crap out of people with Jason Voorhees.

I imagine you are not used to little kids coming up to you talking about Platinum Dune’s films.

[Laughs] Yeah. That wasn’t happening. But also, we really wanted to try and start to do things that were a little bit outside our comfort zone. Obviously Turtles was way outside our comfort zone. So it’s nice that it worked out well.

We talked right before you made Turtles, actually. A lot of the discussion was about how, at Platinum Dunes, you guys hadn’t taken those big swings yet, the ones that end you up in jail or make huge money. What did you glean from the experience?

I would tell you this. You don’t know if you are going to end up in jail until the day the movie opens. If you had talked to me the day before, I was a wreck. There’s no way that you can ever predict the success of any movie. Especially on Turtles, I don’t know that we knew when we went into it how many people felt so….I guess we knew how many people felt passionately about it. But what was hard was as we got in the process of making the movie, so many people had different foundations of the Turtle knowledge. I was a guy who watched the movies. So that was what I used as my basis of understanding for the Turtles. But Drew read the comic books, so he had different things that he saw as Turtle lure. And then there were plenty of people who watched the cartoon. I’m too old for that. Drew and I are too old, so we didn’t watch the cartoon. So what we learned and what was hard to manage is forget the kid, because the kids didn’t really have the background. But the adults, the people who loved this property for so many years, they come to it with so much different knowledge. There’s not a unifying place that they came from. That was challenging.

The film was made directly for the Kids, Which I have no problem with, The previous films were also kids movies as well.