So, hey, remember when we all choked on our pizza at the idea of Michael Bay ruining our childhoods by making a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, minus the Teenage and Mutant? Well, it turns out we had good reason to. In June, Paramount shut down production of the film, which was slated to be released in December 2013; the studio is now aiming for May 2014 so more time can be spent restructuring things. Because oh boy, is it awful. A Ninja Turtles fansite, TMNTnotTANT, got their mitts on an alleged copy of the script, and they write:
A little more than a week ago, I was able to get my hands on the TANT script in order to figure out if all of our worst fears were realized, once and for all. Were the turtles really written in as aliens? Is the script a clever adaptation, or just another Michael Bay sh-t-fest? I have the answer
Its worse than anyone could have ever imagined. And since production on the movie was canceled, I see no problem in summarizing the parts I read (that is, the parts of the script I read until I got angry and just stopped reading). (Via)
FYI: Shredder has been renamed General Schrader. (Hank?) Michael Bay, youve done it again.
Here are some notable excerpts:
The movie ends with, Youre never as alone as you think you are. Again, the team behind TMNTnotTANT could just be pulling an extremely involved, cruel prank, but to prove their find is real, youre invited to read the whole script here, assuming you make it through the thing without