Michael bay Producing Ninja Turtles reboot
Thu, May 27, 2010 
Not all that long ago a picture of a would be Ninja Turtle leaked via LatinoReview, but was later revealed to be fake. I personally hated it, but I know there's a lot of people who really liked it. Part of me wanted to like it just for the fact that I'm a huge turtles fan and I'm dying to see them return to the big screen, especially in a live action adaption, again. As happy as I was to find out that it wasn't actually the new look for the turtles, I was bummed at how much longer we might still have to wait.
Well according to Deadline we shouldn't have to wait much longer.
Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon have brought Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes partners Brad Fuller and Andrew Form on to produce Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the live-action film that reboots the film series launched by New Line in 1990. Bay, Fuller and Form will produce with Galen Walker and Scott Mednick.
The producers will begin meetings with writers in the next few weeks. TNMT, a co-production between Paramount and Nickelodeon, is an outgrowth of the $60 million acquisition made by Nick last October for global rights to the entire Turtles franchise. Right around the same time, Paramount made a first look deal with the Platinum Dunes partners, who will generate genre projects but also want to expand their scope.
It should come as no surprise that Paramount would turn to their golden boy Bay for a franchise of this status, seeing as he's already made them truck loads of money with the Transformers franchise. What did surprise me however was that Bay chose to produce the film with his Platinum Dunes partners as opposed to doing it on his own, like he does with Transformers which he also directs.
Platinum Dunes have been responsable for raping the entire 80's horror genre with continuous remakes, but it seems the well may have finally run dry. Lucky for us depending on who your asking, we get the team that brought us the Nightmare On Elm Street and Friday the 13th remakes, working on yet another classic, but this time within an entirely different genre, the hugely popular comic book genre.
I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt for now, but I seriously hope they don't screw this up. Who knows how long it'll be before there's yet another reboot to the franchise if this flops.
Reader Comments (3)
I just don't see how explosions, screaming, and super models will fit into a ninja turtles movie
I wonder if Bay will direct this as well...or if he'll do Bad Boys 3 after Transformers, either would be pretty damn cool
Whhhhyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!??? I hate MB he's such a shitty fucker