Platinum Dunes Rebooting Ninja Turtles.

[Hayner]

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon have brought Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes partners Brad Fuller and Andrew Form on to produce Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the live-action film that reboots the film series launched by New Line in 1990. Bay, Fuller and Form will  produce with Galen Walker and Scott Mednick.

The producers will begin meetings with writers in the next few weeks. The deal puts Bay in the center of two Paramount franchises, as he started production May 17 on Transformers 3, and is zeroing in on Rosie Huntington-Whitely to replace Megan Fox as love interest for Shia LaBeouf. TNMT, a co-production between Paramount and Nickelodeon, is an outgrowth of the $60 million acquisition made by Nick last October for global rights to the entire Turtles franchise. Right around the same time, Paramount made a first look deal with the Platinum Dunes partners, who will generate genre projects but also want to expand their scope. While they've already set up several projects including a Rob Cohen-remake of Fright Night, the Turtles film puts them into new territory.

http://www.deadline.com/2010/05/platinum-dunes-steers-turtles-relaunch/

I've come to the realization that I'll be very excited for any and all versions of the Ninja Turtles that will ever exist.

[ExpendablesFan]

"Rob Cohen-remake of Fright Night" They are mixing this up with Monster Squad.

[Wolfe]

It's nice that Platinum Dunes is branching out into non-horror franchises to render boring and awful. If they can't get Freddy and Jason right, I don't see gold being struck on this one.

They're really picking the bones of early New Line.

[Shawn]

They're really picking the bones of early New Line.

Next:  Pink Flamingos with exploding dog poo

[Hawkboy]

Next:  Pink Flamingos with exploding dog poo

What hot young starlet from the CW will they cast in Edith Massey's role?

[Amusing Pseudonym]

' Jonathan Liebesman [The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Battle Los Angeles, Wrath of the Titans] is in negotiations to direct Paramount's live-action reboot of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."

Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form would produce for Platinum Dunes.

Plot details are being kept under wraps except that it would be a new reimaging of the famous comic and cartoon series.

Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec [Fastlane, Alias, Happy Town, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol] penned the script. '


http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118050298

[Hayner]

I'm really curious/excited to see where this is going.  When I met Kevin Eastman he said he'd read about 40 pages of the script and loved it.

[Donnacha]

Jonathan Liebesman

I'm out.

[Hayner]

Sure you are.  See you opening weekend.

[Dobbin]

I hope it has lots of jump-scares and shaky-cam moves.

[Steve Lilley]

I hope they don't try to update the way the Turtles talk. "Make them sound like kids talk today!" and all that.

[Luke Erik]

I hope they don't try to update the way the Turtles talk. "Make them sound like kids talk today!" and all that.

Well, I'm sure it will be targeted for kids, but I also cringe at the thought of Mikey saying "LOL, that was an epic fail!".

[Hayner]

And "Whoomp, there it is!"

[Dobbin]

I hope they don't try to update the way the Turtles talk. "Make them sound like kids talk today!" and all that.

Kids don't talk. They text.

[Steve Lilley]

The B-plot of the movie should be them trying to figure out how to get better cellphone reception in the sewers. And they keep sending weird, misspelled text messages due to their giant fingers.

I wonder if the Turtles would use T9 or qwerty text inputs? So many questions I want answered.