What’s funnier: The fact that there’s going to be another “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” movie? Or the fact that Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes company is going to reboot the franchise and presumably make it dark and gritty like all other Platinum Dune failures. Sorry, movies.
And just how many damn people wrote Jon Favreau’s “Iron Man”? We swear, while only four people are credited, it feels like we’re always hearing someone was a writer on “Iron Man.” So while Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby (they also wrote “Cowboys & Aliens” with count ’em, five other writers, oof), are credited as the writers, so are Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, the hired guns on the TMNT reboot.
And since Fergus & Ostby are pretty much involved with everything Favreau moving forward, and have credits like “Children of Men” to their name and Marcum and Holloway are not and have credits like “Punisher: War Zone” to their name… well, we don’t need to spell it out any further for you, right?
Paramount and Nickelodeon bought the rights to this one for a whopping $60 million last year, so let’s hope that turns out to be a good investment for them (ok, with Nick involved, it likely means it won’t be so dark and gritty). The studios want to hire a director as soon as the script is delivered (and if it’s “good”) and then put the movie into production next year. Marcum and Holloway also wrote a “Highlander” reboot and a new version of “Buck Rogers,” both of which are still in development. Good luck to everyone involved in this one. We can’t say you’ll be getting our money.[THR]