Michael Bay Doesn’t Care What You Say, NINJA TURTLES Starts Shooting in April

Despite a massive backlash from thousands of 30-something year old man children, Michael Bay plans to start shooting his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot (daringly titled Ninja Turtles) this April. Yes, this is the same project that’s been derided for watering down the TMNT mythos into a mushy, flavorless, Bay-typical explosion fest. But it’s better than nothing, right?

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Right guys?

I’ll take that thunderous silence as a big whopping “NO”.

Well, there’s not much we can do about it now. Here’s the tweet from our source:

The original script leaked in August of 2012, and it was so outrageously awful that the studio delayed the entire project (by 8 months, apparently). We don’t have access to the full document anymore, but here are the highlights.

• The turtles are trans-dimensional beings (not New York teenage turtles transformed by the Ooze)
• April and Casey are high school sweethearts
• The turtles receive their iconic masks during a chance encounter with Casey, who suddenly decides that the shelled ninjas look too similar, and that uniquely colored eye threads would be the best way to differentiate them.

And it only gets lamer from there. Hopefully the script has weathered a healthy dose of revisions, but as long as Director Jonathan Liebesman remains at the helm, I’ll keep hope alive. Say what you will about Bay, but the Liebernator has some real talent.

I also hear rumor that Vanilla Ice will return.  I know I can’t be the only one who misses him…

Go ninja, go ninja, GO!

SOURCE: BC