Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Property of Films

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In October 2009, following the news of Nickelodeon purchasing all of Mirage's rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles property, it was announced that Nickelodeon would produce a new film through Paramount Pictures with an expected release date sometime in 2012.[4] In late May 2011, it was announced that Paramount and Nickelodeon had brought Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes partners Bradley Fuller and Andrew Form on to produce the next film that will reboot the film series. Bay, Fuller, and Form would produce alongside Walker and Mednick.[5] For the script, the studio originally hired Matt Holloway and Art Marcum to write the film for close to a million dollars. According to TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman, the John Fusco version was a little too edgy for what Paramount wanted.[6] A year later the Studio turns to writers Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec to rewrite the script.[7][8] In February 2012, Jonathan Liebesman was brought in to negotiations to direct the film beating out Brett Ratner.[9] Later in March, it was announced that Paramount had pushed back film's release date to Christmas Day 2013.[10] In early March, 2012, Michael Bay revealed at Nickelodeon's 2012 upfront presentation that the film will be simply titled Ninja Turtles and that the turtles will be "from an alien race".[11][12] News of Bay's creative change was met with criticism from within the fan community.[13] In response to the announcement, actor Robbie Rist who voiced Michaelangelo the first three films, wrote to Bay accusing him of "sodomizing" the franchise. Rist later remarked that he could have been out of line since Bay makes more money than he does.[14] In response to the feedback, Bay issued a statement asking fans to calm down since a script had n... ... middle of paper ... ...led some of the things for the film stating that April would not be 16 years old like in the 2012 cartoon series, he feels Ken Watanabe would make a great Shredder, he would like to bring Reyes back as a Foot lieutenant, and martial arts wise they are looking at Fist of Legend and The Raid: Redemption.[23] Three days later, it was reported that production for this project has been shut down. While the release date has been pushed back five months, the work stoppage for the film was said to be "indefinite".[24] However, other sources said that the film would be released on May 16, 2014 due to problems in that script that need to be corrected.[25][26] In July 2012, Eastman called it "easily the best Turtle movie yet".[27] Kevin Eastman stated that the movie is creating its own story but has to be true to the source material or else they will get "fucking murdered".[28]

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