Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film Series) - Series Relaunch

Series Relaunch

A new feature film was to have been released on 25 December 2013 as part of the acquisition of the franchise by Viacom. It was announced on May 27, 2010 that Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes production company had landed the rights to the new film. It is expected that Bay, Bradley Fuller and Andrew Form will serve as executive producers. Ninja Turtles will be a co-production between Paramount and Nickelodeon. However, it will be a reboot film as opposed to another sequel. Reception from fans thus far has been extremely critical, particularly since Michael Bay's statement that the Turtles will be "from an alien race" and Bay's suggestion that critical fans needed to "chill" after negative response. Fan criticism has included comments from Robbie Rist, the voice of Michelangelo from the original movie series, that Bay is "sodomizing" the original movies and causing "the rape of childhood memories." In June 2012, it was reported that Paramount had shut down production on the film and pushed its release date back to 2014. In February 2013, Bay announced via his personal website that he would be bringing actress Megan Fox into his new TMNT family. No further statement from Bay was made regarding who she would be playing in the new film, but various reports have suggested that she will play April O'Neil. The film will also star Alan Ritchson as Raphael, Pete Ploszek as Leonardo, Jeremy Howard as Donatello, and Noel Fisher as Michelangelo. In April 2013, Bay retracted his comments that the turtles would be aliens and insisted that they would be mutants.