WTF is this?

Mr_Toitle

This video is so bizarre. How did these two numbskulls think they were ever going to get this off the ground with an official (at the time) movie being developed by Peter Laird and John Fusco? 100% has to be sketch.

Tatoruzu

Mr_Toitle

I found this gem that was commissioned by one of the writers

This painting was a collaborative effort between myself and Erik Gist. My team and I have been working on writing a Ninja Turtles movie ever since Batman Begins came out in 2005 and finally completed the story last fall. We created this painting to help generate interest in our film with the hopes of being taken more seriously by Mirage. We believe Ninja Turtles needs a quality reboot and has potential to be a blockbuster if properly done.

This painting is from a scene in our movie. Ninja Turtles The Movie was the first movie my co-writer and I ever purchased in our lives. We have written this movie as an origins story which begins many years ago in Japan. I can only pray we get the opportunity to present our ideas to Mirage.

Apparently he was also working on a TMNT graphic novel called "Dawn of the Ninja"

From what I've seen, he dumped a lot of money into it, even going as far as to hire a professional artist.

It looks like the official website is dead now, and I'm not sure if it was ever archived in full. Maybe someone could find it if they did more digging.

Mr_Toitle

Tatoruzu I stand corrected then. I guess the original plan was to pitch it to Laird as a live-action movie, but Fusco possibly beat them to the chase. They then wanted to turn their script into a graphic novel, but the expenses for the project I guess cost them all their money.

It does seem like a funny coincidence though that these guys and Fusco had a similar vision by wanting to reboot the Turtles in a "Batman Begins" style movie. If there's one minor squabble I have with this project is once again, everything about it is Mirage EXCEPT for the All-Red look (unless they were saving it, you never know).

tMnT03

I never knew there was supposed to be a live action tmnt movie in the early 2000s. It's a shame it never saw the light of day.

Mr_Toitle

tMnT03

I looked more into this project... It was NEVER a movie. My original statement is correct.
This was from the late 2000s when these guys converted their "screenplay" into a graphic novel.
We may not know much about this project, but I don't like what I was seeing. They threw in Bebop and Rocksteady, Fly Baxter, and more that we never knew since the guy went broke trying to finance his "movie".

I don't mean to sound negative about this. But, consider someone trying to take you out to a Mom and Pop joint that doesn't have all the preservatives and artificial flavors that Fast-Food joints have; come to find out that the food has all that and shit like MSG in it as well.

Well, that's what this project remind me of. "Mirage" my ass. They basically thought "hey, why didn't Leo or Raph ever use their weapons in this cartoon I grew up on ? I don't know man, maybe we should make a movie about it! Yeah, we'll use Batman Begins as a template for our "movie". Oh, and those Mirage comics as well".