First TMNT movie - Page 2

MW8979 · 02-25-2004, 03:35 PM

With all this talk of movies going on right now, I kinda had a question myself. Why was it that the first movie was more based on the comics then on the cartoon? I know from a hardcore fan's perspective that is a good thing, but I'm just wondering what guided the corporate decision makers to accept that script, considering by 1990 the cartoon was very well off and making lots of money. I just don't understand why they didn't want to base the story on the cartoon, that all kids at the time knew, and instead based it on the comics, that were a lot less known. It wouldn't cost them much more to make R & B costumes, but might have made them more money, simply due to "familiarity factor". Any ideas?

02-25-2004, 03:35 PM	#1
MW8979 Hench Mutant Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 431	First TMNT movie With all this talk of movies going on right now, I kinda had a question myself. Why was it that the first movie was more based on the comics then on the cartoon? I know from a hardcore fan's perspective that is a good thing, but I'm just wondering what guided the corporate decision makers to accept that script, considering by 1990 the cartoon was very well off and making lots of money. I just don't understand why they didn't want to base the story on the cartoon, that all kids at the time knew, and instead based it on the comics, that were a lot less known. It wouldn't cost them much more to make R & B costumes, but might have made them more money, simply due to "familiarity factor". Any ideas?