25 years ago today, the big green heroes in a half shell, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were born in comic book form. Mirage Entertainment believe it’s the right time to confirm previous speculations that a new live action movie is in the works, due out in 2011.
That’s the same year a new Ghostbusters movie is due, which is also celebrating it’s 25th year anniversary.
The new Turtles movie will be a Batman Begins style origin movie, a dark and gritty yarn which harpens back to how the comic was originally perceived. The trades hint that face replacement technology will be used, which suggests men in suits for the body, which is a good thing.
Speaking of the movie going back to it’s origins. I kind of remember that first Turtles movie back in 1990 being quite dark in itself, the Gotham esque city being one of the scariest places to live on film.
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Looks like sorta a big turtle…in a Trenchcoat. Man this is pretty dark!
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I find it weird that studios didn’t want to do a live-action film before because they thought it would be too expensive and not worth it. So, they gave us the animated film which tried to keep the spirit of the comics and mainstream depictions of the characters so they have all those toy deals for the kids. I wonder what made them change their minds. Maybe Transformers? It would be great if the film is like the 2k3 toon. That was pretty much the closest anyone has gotten to the comics’ tone, but still be ok for kids. And they even had decapitation in it…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqJareDHxe0
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