Producer Scott Mednick talks ‘TMNT’ reboot

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MTV caught up with Scott Mednick, producer of the recently announced live-action, feature film reboot of the TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES to discuss the fact that it is a reboot, possible plotting, Shredder, casting, cameos, and perhaps most importantly where the line would be drawn between CGI and costumes.

As a commenter to this site suggested in a previous article, the costumes for the original 1990 film worked quite well with emotive facial expressions and stunt actors able to have a wide range of motion. In a sign that the production is headed in a similar direction, Mednick hinted at the possibility of using a combination of live and CG technology similar to what audiences will soon see in Spike Jonze’s highly anticipated family adventure WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE.

Mednick was careful not to reveal too much as it appears like a lot of ideas are still being fielded but readers can still get some idea of where the production is headed by checking out the rest of the interview at MTV.

Tags: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2011), upcoming

ZenShiite

I sure hope they don't mess around with Krang and Bebop or Rocksteady. Those characters were lame and campy, and strictly for that original Saturday morning kid's show IMO. Crang was just a remake of the original Utroms characters anyways, and they did a good job including their original storyline in the cartoon series of the past few years... with the exception of turning Shredder into an evil Utrom in a Shredder bot much like Krang himself.

I'd really like to see them try to stick as much as possible with the original comic books and the original tone while remaining fairly kid friendly. Make it a PG13 and I think we'd have it about right.

dragon (i)

Looking forward to this one :-)

leeroygreene85

I kinda like the CGI cartoon that was released. Sure it had its flaws but it tried to pay respects to the original movies.

In some ways it didn't generate the buzz and money they hope for thus the talk and movement of a reboot/live action film.

I'm a turtles fan, and it will be interesting to see if they can do and improve things that couldn't be done many years ago and bring in characters like Crain, and Bebop, with the Shredder instead of the same 'ol thing aka foot clan.