The Ninja Turtles have been around for twenty-five years now, and coinciding with the anniversary is the Mirage Group’s official announcement that they’ll be moving forward on a live-action reboot of the franchise.
Mirage also produced 2007’s computer-animated TMNT movie. It was a relative success, making more than $50 million, but it left them wondering whether they should make a direct sequel or go for a different type of reboot.
Producer Scott Mednick says the movie will draw from the original set of Ninja Turtle comic books by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, and that it may use “face replacement technology” — hinting that the turtles would be guys in costumes (as in the three 1990-1993 movies) but with CGI faces. (I believe a similar thing was done with the upcoming Where the Wild Things Are).
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