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[GeneChing]

Why would space aliens be any more believable than radioactive mutants? They have to change the title to Teenage Alien Ninja Turtles now.

Mar 19 2012 02:36 PM ET
Michael Bay says 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' are aliens, reinvents origin story
by Marc Snetiker

At the annual Nickelodeon upfront presentation last week, über-producer Michael Bay revealed details for Platinum Dunes’ upcoming live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, including a new origin story for the half-shell heroes that is sure to raise the ire of diehard fans.

“When you see this movie, kids are going to believe one day these turtles actually do exist when we are done with this movie,” said Bay as he took the stage to discuss his new vision for the reptilian reboot. “These turtles are from an alien race, and they are going to be tough, edgy, funny and completely loveable.”

In the original mythology, four baby turtles fall into the sewer and come into contact with glowing radioactive ooze, which mutates them into four bad-ass warriors trained in ninjutsu by astute rodent Splinter. But could the rewriting of the Turtles’ origin story dissuade some fans from embracing the newest incarnation? A comic book-to-movie adaptation’s worst nightmare is bad pre-publicity, and Bay may have generated that in about 30 words.

On the flip side, it might seem outrageous to non-fans of the series that Teenage Mutant Ninja purists are offended by the new mythos of Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo. Truth, we might sound a wee bit ridiculous when we cry out, “I can’t believe Bay says they’re aliens when they’re obviously derived from radioactive slime!” But Bay is essentially erasing almost 30 years of love for transmogrified adolescent reptile ninjas by claiming each turtle is less of a fearsome, fighting toxic anomaly and more of a forest green E.T. with nunchucks. What would Shredder think!?

PopWatchers, how does this new origin story make you feel? Are you a purist for the original backstory, or will you embrace Bay’s vision? And who would you cast for this live-action TMNT reboot? Personally, I think Splinter’s a toss-up between Morgan Freeman and Kate Upton.

(And please enjoy this hearty throwback to the original 1987 series’ theme song, since, let’s face it, we really don’t get many chances to write about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.)

[Lucas]

who ever pushed that and got it through sucks balls....plus seeing as how in real life we actually HAVE mutants (maybe not like tmnt but mutants all the same) yet not one actual creature of intelligent alien life...

besides...alient turtles? really? i mean, cmon...really? so ya this planet in which we have turtles...quite possibly the ONLY turtles in the universe...there just happens to be a planet whos entire population is a humanoid version of an animal we have on this planet? sorry, that is just stupid, sad, pathetic, and not very original, especially when we have an already fully developed origin story that is pretty unique. so we trade up an original, all be it well known, origin story for one with less creativity involved....wow

[doug maverick]

who ever pushed that and got it through sucks balls....plus seeing as how in real life we actually HAVE mutants (maybe not like tmnt but mutants all the same) yet not one actual creature of intelligent alien life...

besides...alient turtles? really? i mean, cmon...really? so ya this planet in which we have turtles...quite possibly the ONLY turtles in the universe...there just happens to be a planet whos entire population is a humanoid version of an animal we have on this planet? sorry, that is just stupid, sad, pathetic, and not very original, especially when we have an already fully developed origin story that is pretty unique. so we trade up an original, all be it well known, origin story for one with less creativity involved....wow

hell on the cartoon they made shredder an alien, (the update version) thats probably where they got the idea....

however remember two things, 1)the film is still in the development stages, so anything can change.

2) michael bay is notorious for leaking false information, to **** with peoples heads, cause he(and i for that matter) thinks its funny to **** with fanboys heads.

[Lucas]

i havnt seen the updated one. i remember khang (SP) was an alien brain thing...so i guess i could see the stretch..... TANT (teenage alien ninja turtles) ...a close call to TAINT lol almost worth it...or would they just go with TNT...kinda catchy, but still i like the mutant idea...i havnt watched or read anything TMNT in quite a few years, maybe a decade, but as a kid it was definately one of my favorite comic book and cartoon series. eastman and lairds was always the best.

i guess people run out of good ideas and need to restort to old over used shat though. that never changes

[Brule]

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[Lucas]

i still think going old school ninja style and bring back the original, basing around the old eastman/lairds would kick massive arse, classic oni masked samurai armored shredder and hordes of the foot clan against the awesome abilities of sword weilding teenage mutant ninja turtles led by a ferocious fang and claw splinter.

i always have a problem shoving earth human culture onto alien planets...it just makes no bloody sense.

[sanjuro_ronin]

I'm waiting for the porn parody.

[ghostexorcist]

I'm waiting for the porn parody.

They've done a smurf porn parody, so I'm sure you could find a TMNT porn parody if you looked hard enough.

[Lucas]

lol thats kind of scary

[David Jamieson]

Pass. Michael Bay makes idiotic films anyway. Nice effects, but zero story telling, zero beginning/ middle /end

[sanjuro_ronin]

lol thats kind of scary

Porn parodies are the new thing dude.
I bet he's right that they may have done one already, LOL !

[GeneChing]

I'm waiting for the porn parody.

The Internet is for Porn - Ninja Turtles Style!

This thread just went into the radioactive sewer.

[doug maverick]

Pass. Michael Bay makes idiotic films anyway. Nice effects, but zero story telling, zero beginning/ middle /end

michael bay isnt.....i repeat IS NOT, making this film.

[doug maverick]

i havnt seen the updated one. i remember khang (SP) was an alien brain thing...so i guess i could see the stretch..... TANT (teenage alien ninja turtles) ...a close call to TAINT lol almost worth it...or would they just go with TNT...kinda catchy, but still i like the mutant idea...i havnt watched or read anything TMNT in quite a few years, maybe a decade, but as a kid it was definately one of my favorite comic book and cartoon series. eastman and lairds was always the best.

i guess people run out of good ideas and need to restort to old over used shat though. that never changes

eastman and lairds are working on the screenplay with the writer...so this alien thing actually has their blessing...IF its true.

[Zenshiite]

eastman and lairds are working on the screenplay with the writer...so this alien thing actually has their blessing...IF its true.

If they are actually working on the screenplay my guess is that the Turtles are NOT aliens but that they are going with the origins of the ooze being from the alien Utroms. Bay is just not paying close attention and heard "alien" and rolled with it.

Sure, the origins of the Turtles in Mirage comics is alien... but it's that the ooze was the product of a facility that the disguised Utroms ran. Hell, even in the 87 cartoon the mutagen that created the Turtles was from Dimension X and thus alien.

Krang was based on the Utroms.

Utroms:





Krang: