Paramount Shuts Down Michael Bay's "TMNT" remake
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The Teenage Mutant...sorry Alien Ninja Turtles has been
put on hiatus....
Wait... Michael Bay productions have scripts?
put on hiatus....
Paramount Pictures has shut down a planned reboot of the Ninja Turtles franchise, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. The effects-heavy film, which was in preproduction in Vancouver, was set for release in December 2013. That date is being pushed to May 2014, according to sources.
The issue is said to be the script. Paramount has delayed several big movies from this year to 2013, including G.I. Joe: Retaliation and Brad Pitt’s World War Z, leaving it with a spotty pipeline for the current year. Now it has halted work on its planned holiday movie for 2013, temporarily laying off preproduction staff and informing those prepping the film that the work stoppage is "indefinite," according to sources. Another source close to the production says the movie has been pushed by ten weeks.
Wait... Michael Bay productions have scripts?
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Universal's "Battleship" (another film that got a lot of pre-release
internet flack) Paramount wanted to retool the Turtles flick by removing
unpopular stuff like changing them to "aliens".
Loved Transformers the Movie, disliked Michael Bay's Transformers series.
he might make money,but not good films!
although bad boys was good because the silly humour etc was what it needed,it jsut doesnt fit well with epic films
Cheeky.
Seconded.:)
They aren't mutants, they aren't ninjas, they aren't turtles and probably not teenagers.
this
it was a great film and deserved a sequel
I have never really understood this. How does a movie being made, that you are under no obligation to watch, in any way affect your experiences as a child.
Sometimes a franchise will take a direction that you may not like, for example - I hate Transformers Beastwars - despite being a huge TF fan. My solution is to simply not acknowledge or watch that particular series or story arc. It doesnt in any way diminish my experiences as a child, nor my continued enjoyment of the certain aspects of the Transformers franchise.
I like them apart from Leo's face which to me looks too human-ish. Not liking the nostrils.
I love the 1990 movie and think it's almost perfect. I really wished they had used body suits and if they had to use CGI then just use it on the faces.
Shredder does look amazing but a tad OTT. The cape looks like it could do damage too!
It's been filmed and now in post production. It's out August 8th 2014.
I was going to start a new thread but thought I'd use this existing one.
No. Transformers is their big franchise. Even though they're terrible, they're making Paramount a tonne of money.
I'm sure I read somewhere that filming on Transformers 2 started before there was a script, so, it appears that he doesn't actually need one, unless he's doing some corporate promotional work for Samsung.
Paramount's all-time top 10 (US box office):
1 Titanic (1997) $600,788,188
2 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) $402,111,870
3 Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) $352,390,543
4 Forrest Gump (1994) $329,694,499
5 Shrek the Third (2007) $322,719,944
6 Transformers (2007) $319,246,193
7 Iron Man (2008) $318,412,101
8 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) $317,101,119
9 Iron Man 2 (2010) $312,433,331
10 Star Trek (2009) $257,730,019
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?studio=paramount.htm
I was confirming your statement about Transformers being Paramount's biggest franchise with the actual figures to show by just how much (unless they can come up with a Titanic sequel).
Don't give them ideas, before you know it James Cameron will announce three of the things. I think the title "Titanic 2" has already gone though (I think The Asylum used it)....
You really should have started a new thread.
The subject of this thread is 18 months old and superseded (and it wasn't very accurate in the first place).
The title doesn't help now, but a thread to discuss the movie development would be useful.