TMNT Co-Creator Kevin Eastman Is Optimistic About New Movie; Has Cameo

TMNT Co-Creator Kevin Eastman Is Optimistic About New Movie; Has Cameo

Not that one of those things is necessarily related to the other of course! Although Peter Laird had a few issues with the direction this reboot is taking when he spoke to CBM a while back, the other half of the TMNT co-creator team seems much more positive..

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By MarkCassidy - Apr 25, 2014 01:04 AM EST
Source: CBR
Although casual fans seem to think the Michael Bay produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles flick looks like it might be decent, the same can't be said for the hardcore shell-heads. Of course we only have a brief teaser trailer to go by, but the changes made to TMNT canon -- not to mention the look of the Turtles themselves -- have rubbed many up the wrong way. One man who is optimistic about the new movie, however, is one of the creators of the Turtles himself. While talking to CBR about the upcoming TMNT annual, Kevin Eastman explained why he feels this reboot will make fans "incredibly happy".

"It's been a four, almost five-year journey to bring the next "Turtles" movie to life since the time we pitched it. I know everybody is like, "Oh, Michael Bay, Michael Bay, Michael Bay, he's gonna ruin it! He's gonna destroy it!" But everyone I have encountered has been nothing more than incredibly sincere to try and bring the Turtles back in a way that's new, fresh and exciting, but with total respect to everything that's come before. I've read the script. I have a cameo in the move. It's awesome -- really fun. What they've done with the film is going to make fans incredibly happy, including myself. The vision is awesome, the effects are incredible and the story will be something everybody can relate to and like. I'll leave it out there for the fans to let us know what they like in the end, but I'm very proud to be part of it. A lot of people are going to be surprised."

Sold? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is directed by Jonathan Liebesman. It stars Megan Fox, Pete Ploszek, Noel Fisher, Jeremy Howard, Alan Ritchson, Danny Woodburn, William Fichtner, Will Arnett, Whoopi Goldberg and opens August 8. For the full interview click the link below.
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loki668
loki668 - 4/25/2014, 2:21 AM
Money for the cash sell. Dollar power!!
Swiftsword777
Swiftsword777 - 4/25/2014, 2:22 AM
^^ I second that notion
OldBenKenobi
OldBenKenobi - 4/25/2014, 2:24 AM
Or maybe it's actually good? Who knows, the first Transformers wasn't bad at all.
batmanvsuperman
batmanvsuperman - 4/25/2014, 2:25 AM
We will see I have hope's
GenerationX
GenerationX - 4/25/2014, 2:25 AM
Cowabunga?
konoyaro
konoyaro - 4/25/2014, 2:30 AM
isn't he the half of the creative team who had signed on with this project since the beginning?
if so then its no surprise if he say its cool.
THRILLHO
THRILLHO - 4/25/2014, 2:34 AM
I shall remain cautiously optimistic.
dutchman
dutchman - 4/25/2014, 2:35 AM
We Will see
loki668
loki668 - 4/25/2014, 2:40 AM
Cowabingo
GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 4/25/2014, 2:42 AM
I'LL DEFINITELY GIVE IT A LOOK SEE...NOT A PRE-JUDGER AT ALL.
Demongod20
Demongod20 - 4/25/2014, 3:03 AM
I'm in wait and see mode.
TelaVizion
TelaVizion - 4/25/2014, 3:20 AM
This movie is gonna make money opening weekend. A lot of ppl is looking forward to this movie. They're really liking the new look of the turtles.
Meady
Meady - 4/25/2014, 3:28 AM
Errrmmm.......nope.
ShelfPorn
ShelfPorn - 4/25/2014, 3:31 AM
That's good, because I'm not... 0-:-l
Neek2086
Neek2086 - 4/25/2014, 3:32 AM
Can't wait.. The ones who trash this movie probably doesn't like the fact it comes out a week after guardians.. Smh
Kyos
Kyos - 4/25/2014, 3:44 AM
I'll watch this at some point for sure. So far I don't think it'll be on the big screen, though.
DukeAcureds
DukeAcureds - 4/25/2014, 3:57 AM
You know, I thought he was completely full of bullshit until I saw the trailer. The trailer really swayed me.
I agree with Peter Laird's sentiments, but Eastman has the inside track on this. I'm cautiously optimistic, myself.
My only real beef with this movie, now, is Eric Sachs. But if he turns out to be an Utrom, then I will be very, very happy.
DukeAcureds
DukeAcureds - 4/25/2014, 4:07 AM
FYI for those calling Eastman a sell-out, I doubt he got very much for his involvement in this. He'll probably get whatever Bob Kane got on Batman, as project consultant.
He doesn't own TMNT, they don't need to pay him anything. He's on the level.
He sold his half to Laird. That's not really selling out.
Laird sold TMNT lock, stock and barrel to Viacom. A megacorp. That is kinda selling out. But I'm sure he had his reasons.
Shame though, because he left a lot of plot threads hanging in vol. 4.
DJRock93
DJRock93 - 4/25/2014, 4:13 AM
Movie* I don't know how he would have a cameo in the move lol
loki668
loki668 - 4/25/2014, 4:15 AM
@Everyone who took my $$ joke seriously:

Can't a guy (named Loki, no less) make a JOKE??!? It was such an easy set up, that I couldn't resist. I thought everyone would suss it out as obvious joke is obvious. I even did it with the cartoon theme song in mind!! I did it because I HATE the cartoon (preferred the original comic story). Some of you, in here, have said FAR MORE insulting things about other projects on other threads. I have to leave now and hold a telethon to try and get you guys a sense of humor.
loki668
loki668 - 4/25/2014, 4:17 AM
The "Cowabingo" comment, admittedly, was over the line. I'm a bastard:)
Ceejay
Ceejay - 4/25/2014, 4:20 AM
@DukeAcureds - Exactly, these guys don't know shit about this franchise if they're gonna call him a sell-out. The entire idea they have about the TMNT from their youth on TV with the cartoon and the previous live-action movies IS THE REAL SELL-OUT VERSION!! Eastman and Laird sold out the original comic version of the vicious and lethal turtles so that Viacom could "Disney-fy" it for a younger age group with all that cowabunga dude shit and going over the top with the Pizza and Party Dude crap as well as the colour-coded masks so the little kiddies could tell them apart.

Everyone who likes that version bought into the original "Sell-out" and needs to shut up about this new version because they enjoyed a long time with their sell out cheesy TMNT and now its time for a new generation to have their own.
ThrotTheUnclean
ThrotTheUnclean - 4/25/2014, 4:21 AM
.... i'll take his word for it I guess.
loki668
loki668 - 4/25/2014, 4:25 AM
DukeAcureds
DukeAcureds - 4/25/2014, 4:27 AM
loki668@ Didn't mean you personally, just a general FYI. Stay funky, trickster.
Having said that, right on, CeeJay@.
Zuriel
Zuriel - 4/25/2014, 4:28 AM
No
loki668
loki668 - 4/25/2014, 4:38 AM
@Duke

I know. I realized that someone had commented above me. I just figured that I was committed, at that point (I hate deleting comments). Besides, it seemed more fun to contine;)
Tromills
Tromills - 4/25/2014, 4:46 AM
as a fan of the original, i have no real problem with this remake, i am glad to see the turtle back on the big screen, Fox is some great eye candy, and the CGI looks amazing, but i have 1 concern, just 1, and it is so small, that people will hate me for it.

I love the original design, so i fear that i will be siting in the cinema and the only thing i will look at the whole time is the noses.

Small matter i know, but i fear that i will constantly focus on those noses, constantly saying to myself that it does not llok right and that i hate it, that it will take me out of the experience of the movie.

I hope they proof me wrong, but i have seen the trailer a few times, and those noses keep taking me out of enjoying it, it naggs me, almost like The Mole annoyed Austin Powers. he could only focus on the "mole"on The Moles face, and nothing else.

I am looking foward to the movie, but i hope that the noses wont take me out of the experience
Zuriel
Zuriel - 4/25/2014, 4:50 AM
A lot of people are wondering how those things get in and out of the sewer with those massive shells. Not through any manhole I have seen. Again, if you are going to redesign characters for a "new generation" fine, but if it gets so far from the original idea why not stop being Hollywood hacks and make something new.
Carl
Carl - 4/25/2014, 5:06 AM
for once people can agree with ceejay
RedRocBoy
RedRocBoy - 4/25/2014, 5:13 AM
@Ceejay Finally somebody who gets it. So damn tired of these so called die hard TMNT fans shitting on the tis movie without even seeing it in it's entirety.
Carl
Carl - 4/25/2014, 6:20 AM
its a kids movie by nikalodeon. made by jonathan leibsman (he sucks) and produced by michael bay who also sucks. expect it to be a 2 hour cartoon, the turtles probably wont drink, kill with their weapons or be ordering the shredder to commit seppuku any time soon.
Carl
Carl - 4/25/2014, 6:28 AM
@buggy89
it started off as an adult franchise
Carl
Carl - 4/25/2014, 6:32 AM
look at what jonathan liebsman has done in the past.
he doesnt have one good film out.

2000 Genesis and Catastrophe Short film
2003 Darkness Falls
2005 Rings Short film
2006 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
2009 The Killing Room
2011 Battle: Los Angeles <---,
2012 Wrath of the Titans <--- LOL
2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Carl
Carl - 4/25/2014, 6:38 AM
I wish I could wipe my butt with 150 million like liebsman did with wrath of the titans lol
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