Well, we really are living in some sort of a weird world where everything great from the 80s and 90s is coming back with a vengeance.
Some is great, some, well, isn’t but now we’re hearing that we may be getting a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie and, while that franchise has been rebooted and reimagined more than most others, this could be a sequel to the original 1990s hit movie.
In a new interview, screenwriter Bobby Herbeck, who was one of the writers on the original movie, has revealed that he is in talks with the original director, Steve Barron, and Brian Henson from the Jim Henson Creature Shop who worked on the amazing suits from the first movie about returning to the movie that started it all.
Fans will of course recall that the first movie was the first of a trilogy with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze in 1991 and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III in 1993 filling it out, but now it seems that we may actually go back there… but would it be a fourth movie or a sequel to the first movie – much as we saw recently with Superman Returns, Terminator Dark Fate and others?
The original movie is currently set for a new theatrical release – if anyone can find a cinema that’s open – to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary.
“We’re trying to make that happen,” Herbert said.
“We want to do a reboot. We got our fans com[ing] to us on Instagram, they’re, ‘Why don’t you guys do a reboot of the first movie?’ We’d love to do it.”
He goes on: “I do wish that we could go back. I mean, we’ve talked to Steve Barron about this, and Brian Henson, and if there were an opportunity, if one of the studios saw fit, I think we could go back and reboot it like it was… Imagine if Brian Henson had access to the technology he does today to make these costumes and all that. I think it would be amazing. A reboot like that I think would really get people’s juices flowing.”
While he says reboot here, it’s believed he meant sequel and just used the wrong phrase – easily done in a world of reboots, re-releases, sequels and reimaginings, really.
One major stumbling block here is that Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are currently developing a new CGI interpretation of the franchise, but, look, we live in a world where, in the next few years, we could have three or four separate versions of Batman, so I’d rule nothing out.
But, what I do know is that, as a boy, the original TMNT movie was a big deal to me – after Tim Burtons’ Batman the year before, seeing the turtles done is such a dirty and real-world way blew my mind and while I don’t think the original movie holds up too well now, I’d be first in line for another movie in the series.
What say you is it time to get reacquainted with the original ninjas? Let me know what you think, gang…
Source: Comingsoon
Marc
Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….
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