Michael "should be thrown into a" Bay

Mr_Tigg · Post by **Mr_Tigg** » Mon Mar 19, 2012 12:47 pm

Has announced that in the new Mutant Ninja Turtles film (which he is producing) the Turtles will be aliens from space!

When I read that news I put on my sad face.

Post by **Best First** » Mon Mar 19, 2012 1:04 pm

I absolutely gaurantee he or whoever the writers are, will justify this by saying the original origin "when you think about it" doesn't make sense.

Are they still mutants then?

And if that is up for grabs why stop there? What about age range, fighting style and species?

Middle Aged Alien Boxing Badgers here we come.

Hot Shot · Post by **Hot Shot** » Mon Mar 19, 2012 1:25 pm

Sonuvabitch.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Mon Mar 19, 2012 1:28 pm

Was just in fact reading about this.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog ... MUSTXT9383

Not sure I can put it much better. Although that's Michelangelo in the picture, dagnabit.

Post by **Kaylee** » Mon Mar 19, 2012 3:08 pm

Incontinent Boxing Hero Tortoises?

Er, ... FROM SPAAACE!

saysadie · Post by **saysadie** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 4:45 pm

One of my younger brothers has been telling this to people for days, just to watch their reaction. I LOLed.

Bay should go back to porn. <insert obvious explosion joke here>

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 4:51 pm

I think this article makes an awesome point:

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/1288706 ... y_not.html

Michael Bay might be trolling you. Look, the internet, you’ve been pretty awful to Bay. And by you, I mean me. I’ve been awful to Bay in the words I’ve written and the attitude I’ve taken towards some of his films. If I were Bay I would definitely be doing things like this all the time, specifically to irritate people like me.

saysadie · Post by **saysadie** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 5:00 pm

Ahh ha ha, niiice. I brought that possibility up the last time we were talking about it. My post was going to be about that misinformation business mentioned in the next paragraph, but I couldn't remember the details and was too lazy to check.

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 6:38 pm

I really don't think we should give him all that credit. Trolling to get a buzz about the movie going? Too complicated, and Bay wouldn't personally get involved about perhaps tweeting or something.

I think his thought is, "Right, well they told me that I was pissing all over childhoods when I gave Optimus a mouth and Transformers into magnetic metal shavings, and then I made one gazillion dollars. So I think I've earned the right to piss on whatever I want, because clearly I'm going to be wiping it up with mountains of box office."

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 2:06 am

Sneak peek!

http://teamcoco.com/video/michael-bey-tmnt

saysadie · Post by **saysadie** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 8:28 am

We just spent about fifteen minutes waiting for that video to work... despite the fact that I'm pretty sure if it was shown on Conan, we've already seen it.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 2:43 pm

BOOM

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news-in-p ... 203245053/

Hound · Post by **Hound** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 2:49 pm

Brendocon wrote:BOOM

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news-in-p ... 203245053/

Gold. Stealing that.

inflatable dalek · Post by **inflatable dalek** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:56 pm

That's awesome. And that's speaking as someone who usually finds most "Imagine what a Hollywood remake of Thing X Would Be Like, probably with some things blowing up and inappropriate casting lol" spoofs far too obvious and rubbish (mainly because none of them will ever top Arnie's Hamlet. "Not to be").

Considering that, whatever we may think of their qualities, his TF films are failry faithful to the set up (despite fan moaning there's not a huge amount in them that doesn't have a precedent somewhere) I wouldn't be surprised if Bay had very little to do with this decision. I'd place money on his Executive Producers credit being similar to Spielberg's on the TF films, there to be a famous face for initial PR but otherwise just turns up to the free lunches and doesn't contribute much more than "Yeah, some explosions maybe thanks, where's my money?".

Though Bay is good at the misinformation thing, remember how he even fooled IDW into thinking Shockwave was going to be the major new villain in Dark of the Moon?