TRANSFORMERS director Michael Bay will be taking on another ’80s cartoon-to-feature… but the aliens have gone to his head. He announced at the annual Nickelodeon upfront presentation last week that he will be doing a live-action TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES movie for 2013, but he will be drastically changing their origin.
The original story goes (in an abbreviated version) that four baby turtles fell into the sewer and fell into some radioactive waste causing them to become mutated human-like warriors who learn martial arts and talk like surfers.
But according to his speech, Bay is changing all of that. “These turtles are from an alien race and they are going to be tough, edgy, funny and completely loveable.” Yes aliens. Maybe after doing all the TRANSFORMERS movies, he doesn’t know how else to tell a story? Check out the full quick speech below.
http://youtu.be/tEpPSNM73qw
Many outraged TMNT fans took to Twitter to voice their disgust in his origin re-write. Here are some notable LOLs:
“@MrBrandonStroud Michael Bay is turning the Ninja Turtles into “an alien race”. I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.”
“@GailSimone If Michael Bay made an Easy Bake Oven movie, it would be about Jell-o.”
“@scottEweinberg Between Transformers and TMNT, I’m now convinced that Michael Bay had the worst childhood ever.”
“@5States Michael Bay, say what you will about Transformers but LEAVE THE TURTLES ALONE.”
So, the internet has a bleak outlook of this 2013 remake. Lets all collectively heave a sigh and relax because it’s going to happen, whether we like it or not.