BREAKING: Michael Bay's Non-Teenage Alien Ninja-Like Quasi-Turtles Movie Might Not Have Been Very Good By Rob Bricken in Movies Thursday, August 30, 2012 at 4:22 pm As many of you are aware, the script for Michael Bay's original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie appeared to leak earlier this week, like Bumblebee all over John Turturro's face. You know, the one where the Turtles were aliens, and was so bad that Paramount demanded a new script -- which is pretty ****ing telling when Paramount approved a Transformers script which included the line "I am standing under the enemy's scrotum." At first I didn't believe the script was real -- I swear, it seemed to much like a parody of Michael Bay adaptations to be, like you guys would enter during a Michael Bay-ize it contest -- but Michael Bay has confirmed the script was real, just an older one, discarded well before the one where the Turtles were aliens that pissed everyone off earlier this year. This script was dated January 2012, and the Turtles are definitely aliens in it, so... yeah. I've waited to report this mostly because I've been trying to think of some blisteringly hilarious take on the material, but I haven't been able to. Maybe it's because I'm burned out, maybe it's because I've never been funny (saved you guys the trouble of pointing that option out) or maybe because it's just so ****ing terrible I can't even joke about. Not that TMNT is serious business, but there's a certain point in which Michael Bay turns from a largely successful idiot who hates all aspects of storytelling that don't involve explosions, the U.S. military, or shots of models' asses, and becomes a semi-sentient void which takes ideas even as ludicrous as teenage mutant ninja turtles and inserts them into the dumbest, tritest, least imaginative "entertainment" possible. This is that point. Now, FilmDrunk has several portions of the screenplay, which I recommend you read if you 1) hate yourself or 2) want to feel more justified in hating Michael Bay. But here's the highlight reel: • The main character is not any of the Turtles, but Casey Jones. • Casey Jones is not a sporting goods-loving vigilante, but a hockey-loving teen who used to date April O'Neil and works in a furniture store who stumbles upon a secret government installation which are keeping alien turtle-like beings. This sounds familiar at all? • Shredder is now an evil military commander named Col. Schraeder. I swear I'm not making this up. • The Non-Turtles are from Dimension X, and there's a prophecy that they're going to stop war there and on Earth. So it's pretty much a carbon-copy of Transformers, but... worse, somehow. That kind of awfulness is astounding. I'm sorry I can't be funny about this, but I'm just so mesmerized by Bay's terribleness that I can't think of anything to say. Seriously, go to FilmDrunk. You won't be sorry. Unless you're a TMNT fan, in which case yeah, you'll probably be pretty sorry. At least the new script can't possibly be any worse... maybe? http://www.toplessrobot.com/2012/08/breaking_michael_bays_non-teenage_alien_ninja-like.php
I wish Michael Bay would just disappear from the face of the Earth. It doesn't matter how. How the dude still has a job is mind bottling. Are kids that stupid these days that they'd go out and pay monees to support his dumb projects?
Don't worry guys, maybe, just maybe if we're lucky, Bay will accidentally blow himself up on the set during a shooting. Then we can all celebrate.
My ex fawking loves TMNT. I should download the script, send it to her and tell her it's been green lit.
anyone ever see fight the foot, it was supposed to be some webisode like mortal kombat legacy.. never heard anything else fro it though, i thinks its a couple years old now.. but showed what a TMNT remake could be if done right.. <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ldC6krN7PNM" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"></iframe>
