"new" ninja turtles look revealed?
Sat, April 24, 2010 If you remember the last we heard of the Ninja Turtles franchise, Nickelodeon bought out the global rights to the series and unveiled their plans for a new CG animated series and live-action film – both for 2012.
Before that Peter laird, one of the original creators told MTV:
“The basic idea, as I understand it, is to do an all live action shoot, with actors and stuntmen in full Turtle suits,” explained Peter Laird, co-creator of the original comic series, to MTV News. “To add expressiveness to the Turtles’ faces which would be difficult if not impossible to get with animatronics and/or puppetry, there would be ‘face replacement,’ with CGI Turtle faces superimposed on the live action performers’ heads.”
That was the last we heard from the new TMNT "Batman Begins" style reboot back in August 2009. This new movie, coming to theaters in 2011 from Legendary Pictures, will be closer to the original comic, according to TMNT co-creator Peter Laird.
Now Latinoreview has got their hands on what looks to be the design for the "new" Ninja Turtles.
The thing about this design is it would work more for the Batman Begins-inspired reboot from Legendary Pictures, then it would for something I'd expect out of Nickelodeon. Which makes me really wonder, what's going on with the Turtles Franchise if this is in fact a "real" design.
Is Nickelodeon working with legendary pictures now to bring the best of both worlds together? Nothing has been confirmed nor denied from anyone at this point, but I'm sure with this picture making its way online, we can expect at the very least a denial from one if not both parties presumably involved at this point.
What do you think, is this what you were expecting the new turtles to look like? Or are you disappointed like me, they decided not to go back to the original Jim Henson designs from the original Live Action films. Well at least the first one that is.
Reader Comments (5)
This looks like shit
If it is indeed real, it looks like one of the comic runs. Very similar look.
I love the Ninja Turtles, but if this is real I don't like it.
this reminds me of one of the original Eastman and laird books form 20ish years ago. I don't like the look of this is much s hensons design, but i doubt this actually real.
This Ninja turtle looks ugly as hell, but I get what they're going for here. It's the more realistic look