Michael Bay Answers Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Criticism

Yesterday we reported on the recent comments by uber director/producer and master of €œBayhem€ himself, Michael Bay, regarding the direction on the new upcoming live-action take of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie his Platinum Dunes company have been working on at Paramount. To refresh your memory, he said; He said:

"When you see this movie, kids are going to believe, one day, that these turtles actually do exist when we are done with this movie. These turtles are from an alien race and they are going to be tough, edgy, funny and completely lovable."

Needless to say, announcing that the heroes in a half shell were going to be from an €œalien race€ did not go down particularly well with the fanboys (me being one of them) and sent the internet and forums into a frenzy of Bay induced fury. The thought of the master of explosions, sunsets, and big robots beating the crap out of each other, turning our four favourite pizza loving ninja turtles into an alien race, rather than the pet turtles transformed by radioactive chemicals, was just too much for some. But now Bay has taken to the Internet himself and responded to the outcry over his comments on his official website, stating:

"Fans need to take a breath, and chill. They have not read the script. Our team is working closely with one of the original creators of Ninja Turtles to help expand and give a more complex back story. Relax, we are including everything that made you become fans in the first place. We are just building a richer world."

In all honesty I don€™t think this will appease some of the more die-hard fanboys. For one thing he doesn€™t deny they won€™t be aliens nor does he confirm it. Only that they are creating a more complex back-story. Take that as you will. Plus fanboys will always complain no matter what. What should please the fans however, are Bay€™s comments that they are working with one of the original creators, which should please some fans. The turtles began life as an edgy, gritty comic in 1984, created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird before being turned into its most successful incarnation as an animated series that ran for nine years between 1987 and 1996. It then spawned three feature films, a live action series, another animated series and most recently a CG animated feature in 2007. This new take on the franchise is set to be a mixture of live action with CGI turtles and is set to be directed by Jonathan Libesman (Wrath of the Titans) working from a script by Josh Applebaum, Andre Nemec, Matt Holloway and John Fusco with a release date pencilled in for Christmas 2013.