New Ninja Turtle Design?


Latino Review recieved this prosthetic head of Michelangelo is rumored to be from the new TMNT film.

“The basic idea, as I understand it, is to do an all live action shoot, with actors and stuntmen in full Turtle suits,” explained Peter Laird, co-creator of the original comic series, to MTV News.

To add expressiveness to the Turtles’ faces which would be difficult if not impossible to get with animatronics and/or puppetry, there would be ‘face replacement,’ with CGI Turtle faces superimposed on the live action performers’ heads.”

I’ll give the design credit for looking like the actual reptile instead of a muppet. I really wish they’d go back to practical effects, you don’t have take the cheap way. The reason why the effects in the first Iron Man worked so well is that it was real hands-on suits and minimal CG. The other way around just doesn’t work. But then again, it would be more expessive, but still it would be payoff in fold.

Now, I’m all for another one, but not another sugarcoated version. I’d much prefer to see a Grindhouse style movie of the orignial dark comic, where they killed The Shredder. But like the recent announcement of the Batman musical, this could just end up being another piece of kid trash.