Remarkably in this world of heavy 80’s nostalgia, the 2007 adaptation of the mega popular franchise The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles rather alienated the now twenty and thirty something fans who grow up with the original incarnations of the characters.

Sure, the animated TNMT did decent enough business with a $95 million worldwide gross form a $34 million budget, but it didn’t set the world alight. It’s unsurprising that no sequel has been heavily spoken about.

With a series that you would think wasn’t far off being as popular as Spider-Man and Transformers for many of today’s young and not so young adults, that a live action version might have done gangbusters, it certainly did at the height of it’s popularity in 1990 with a $200 million grossing worldwide film.

Well, get a load of this quote from The Playmate Toys Website. Note, this has since being deleted which is neither helps the plausibility of this being true or untrue…

“Following the success of the ‘TMNT’ theatrical release in 2007, Mirage licensing and Imagi studios have begun work on a new live-action TMNT film for 2010. It’s the turtles like you’ve never seen them before! Shellalicious!”

I tried to rewatch this original movie a couple of years ago and was majorly disappointed that it couldn’t stand up to my memory of what it was like watching this franchise first time around. I had to turn it off after 30 or so minutes, the memory of the movie that I remember was too precious to give way to what I was seeing on screen.

Would I be up for a live action version? Yeah sure, if they went darker with it but kept the great sense of bond that the original four-some had. If I were a movie studio, I certainly would… there’s money to be made here.

source – /film