TMNT to Return to Big Screen

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are set to return to the big screen in a live action movie slated for 2011. Variety:

The Mirage Group, which owns the property, is moving forward with a live-action film focusing on the origins of the iconic crime fighters. Project, targeted for release in 2011, would mark the fifth bigscreen outing for the sewer-dwelling heroes Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael as well as their master Splinter.

If you like me when you read "live action" you probably thought "great they are going to ass rape TMNT". But it may not be all that bad.

Legendary Pictures former chief marketing officer Scott Mednick is producing the new pic alongside Galen Walker, who produced the 2007 computer-animated "TMNT" pic, the most recent installment in the franchise. Peter Laird, Gary Richardson, Frederick Fierst, Eric Crown and Napoleon Smith III are exec producing the film, which is based on the characters created by Laird and Kevin Eastman.

News coincides with the Turtles' 25th anniversary celebration, which kicks off Thursday in New York as the first "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" film unspools at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Since the producer of the 2007 computer animated movie is involved I will reserve further judgement. I thought the 2007 movie captured the characters perfectly and just rocked plain and simple. So let's just hope a live action verison is in the same vain.

In a related story Ray Park is trying to make a turle costume during lunch hour.