how would you reboot teeange mutant ninja turtlers?

[heathjack]

i wouldn't use cgi liked nickelodeon's 2014 ninja turtles movie!! instead i would put them back in suits liked the 1990 movie!! !! i would also make them look liked teeangers!! i wouldn't make shredder looked liked transformer!! i would also get different actress playing april o'neil ! megan fox is ok but to me she wasn't april o'neil ! i would also keep micheal bay away form ninja turtlers!! i also would keep the foot but i wouldn't have them use guns! but ninja weapons!

 

[Detective Conan]

Go all dark ‘n gritty man! Make it hardcore! Sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll! F**k that kiddie sh** with the turtles being cartoony Pizza loving hippies? You gotta go raw with that yo’’!

 

[Alien Anal]

 

[Deck Rickard]

The problem with that movie wasn’t that the Turtles were CGI. Honestly, that’s probably the best way to go with them so it doesn’t just look like 4 guys in rubber suits.

The problems were terrible writing, direction and casting. The movie was just horribly boring.

 

[MadVillainy]

I don't think they need to make another live action TMNT movie. I don't see how making them live action will benefit anything really. I'd just make a straight anime film or some kind of anime/CG hybrid with really creative animation like Into the Spider-Verse

 

[Jochimus]

My take: Akira Kurosawa Meets John Carpenter By Way Of "The Warriors". Set in a slightly-dystopic NYC roughly 20 years after a contagion from space touched down on Earth, wiped out about a fourth of the human populace and drove a third of it criminally crazy, and left the city to be ruled by various gangs that look like they just stepped out of a Lewis Carroll crack nightmare...and that's not even taking into account the isolated instances of the pathogen causing radical mutation in various lower animal life forms.

 

[heathjack]

they already did computer Anmited movie of ninja turtlers it was called tmnt!!

 

[Wheels]

I want Zack Snyder to direct TMNT so badly. Say what you want about his DC films but he fits the Turtles like a glove.

 

[Iceman]

I want Zack Snyder to direct TMNT so badly. Say what you want about his DC films but he fits the Turtles like a glove.

Yeah, good call.

 

[MadVillainy]

That sounds terrible. How in the world does he fit like a glove?

 

[Sithborg]

I want Zack Snyder to direct TMNT so badly. Say what you want about his DC films but he fits the Turtles like a glove.

No. No he does not. Ninja Turtles have grown so beyond the original comics.

 

[Wheels]

Meh. I'd still like to see something like the old comics on screen. It's not like they can't go back and do the more kid friendly style again later.

 

[MadVillainy]

I mean you can want what you want. And of course you're not wrong for it at all. But that just won't happen, nor should it. It'd actually be flat out stupid for the studios to do that.
1) The franchise has really evolved past that. The turtles haven't been seen as those dark, black and white Daredevil parodies in decades (other than small appearances in animated specials). Tjat would be like putting Superman back as his Action Comics or Fleischer cartoons self. What benefit would that bring? "It'll be different" but so what? It won't be successful.
2) No one will take a serious gritty movie about a bunch on giant mutated creatures doing martial arts in the sewers of NYC seriously. It worked back then but that was back then. Audiences would not take it seriously nowadays. Especially directed by Zack Snyder who has abandoned pretty much all mainstream sensibilities.

TMNT is a massive franchise based around toy sales, merchandise, etc. All of which won't sell for a gritty R rated movie. It would be a bonehead move to revert the Turtles to their dark gritty selves.
That being said making them not gritty doesn't mean you have to make them stupid. Again, I say just do and anime/CG hybrid with some really creative animators and directors. Make a script that's simple, but not dumb. Basically Spidey-Verse. Cool animation, nice script, good voice talent. That's what you need.

 

[Wheels]

Do it as as a Netflix or HBO Max film. Those can be for a smaller audience. Not sure why you couldn't have two versions of TMNT targeting different demos as long as one is on TV and the other is in theateres

 

[MadVillainy]

Do it as as a Netflix or HBO Max film. Those can be for a smaller audience. Not sure why you couldn't have two versions of TMNT targeting different demos as long as one is on TV and the other is in theateres

Because it could dilute the brand.

And why spend money doing 2 shows when you can put your resources to more feasible things like a cartoon on a kid's network and then a theatrical movie

 

[Wheels]

I just don't agree . If everyone had that thought process then Batman '89 would have never gotten made. Silver Age Batman would be all we have on screen.

 

[MadVillainy]

That's a really silly comparison.

B89 came out after comic books in general went very dark for their time with the Bronze Age of Comic Books. It also came out in the 80s a few years after Year One, The Dark Knight Returns, and again just darker Batman comic stories.
And going along with that: Batman started dark, went lighter, then went dark again. TMNT started dark, went light and has stayed relatively light in most mainstream incarnations since 1987. In fact they were only dark and gritty for a few years. A vast majority of the the time of the Turtles being mainstream popular wasn't the dark and gritty stuff. So Batman going to 89 levels wasn't as out of the ordinary compared the TMNT which is way more known for being lighter fare. Taking a franchise that has largely been kid friendly for a majority of its popularity is not like Batman who has bounced back and forth in tone during the character popularity in the 1930s-1989

And the "just put them on a streaming service" is just silly too. Whether it's animated or live action that's gonna cost something. Something to make and something to market. Why waste the money, even if it's low budget, on something that most people aren't going to care about?

And saying something along the lines of "We would've stayed with Silver Age Batman on screen with that thinking" doesn't make sense either. Because as I said above, Batman was in a dark period when 89 was being made anyway

There's no benefit of them going back to that aesthetic. Just like there's no benefit for Batman go back to the 1930s incarnation

And besides it's owned by Nick/Viacom. They're not gonna do it. But once again, they'd be stupid to

 

[Sithborg]

I mean, there are other serious adaptations out there. Hell, the comic just made me cry. I just don't see the need to go beyond PG13, given the whole of the franchise.

 

[MadVillainy]

I mean, there are other serious adaptations out there. Hell, the comic just made me cry. I just don't see the need to go beyond PG13, given the whole of the franchise.

Yeah I don't think anyone would say you can't make it serious. But to go all the way left with it back to the old black and whites is just a bad move with no benefit.

And with relatively serious you can still have jokes and heartwarming moments. Again like Spider-Verse

 

[Wheels]

Hollywood still saw Batman as Adam West though. Uslan said as much. A risk was still taken by WB there. I'll take a lighter film anyway but I still think a darker TMNT film could work, no reason it couldn't.