Yesterday Jonathan Liebesman jumped into the fray with comments surrounding the new
TMNT movie. He told
Collider, "“Look, it’s so funny—if everyone was such a die-hard fan, they would know that the TCRI canisters where the ooze comes from. That is alien ooze. Now I’m not saying what Michael said is exactly what the movie is, because we’re sitting in a room now figuring everything out."
During the week long controversy I have reported that Peter Laird, co-creator of
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has been extremely critical of Bay's comments, and now he has responded to Liebesman explanation.
"I read the director's comments and found them to be vague and open to different interpretations... one of the most obvious of which is, sadly, that the Turtles are from an alien race. Which is exactly what Michael Bay said. I guess we'll have to wait and see." -- PL
"I think it's clear that most people -- and I count myself one of them -- don't have any idea of what the true intentions of the new TMNT film's makers are regarding the origin story of the TMNT in the film. All we have to go on, really, is an off-the-cuff comment by Michael Bay which SEEMS to be somewhat ridiculous. But as I wrote earlier, though my gut feeling is that this is NOT a good direction in which to head, it is POSSIBLE -- if not necessarily LIKELY -- that some incredibly talented creative team might take this goofy idea and turn it into something really good. I am not sanguine about that possibility... but who knows? Not me, and certainly not you."
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Besides addressing the alien race issue, Peter used his latest blog entry to reiterate that he wasn't a big fan of the Saturday morning animated cartoon series. Peter admits that he only watched the first few seasons of the show, but had to stop because he found it to be "silly and repetitive." Now, if he had creative control of the show it would've been much different. Check out what he had to say below.
"The point I am trying to make here is that had I (again, speaking solely for myself and not for Kevin) been making the key creative decisions for that first animated series, it would have been VERY different. Among other things, there would likely have been no moronic henchmen like Bebop and Rocksteady. The Shredder would have been seriously malevolent. April would not have been a reporter and constantly need to be rescued by the Turtles. The Turtles would not have been so ridiculously obsessed with pizza, and the Shredder would not have had as one of his businesses a restaurant called "Ninja Pizza". There might have been something that sort of looked like Krang, but it would have been an Utrom in a cool robotic exoskeleton. And the show would not have had a joke or gag every five seconds."
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