Those Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have been rebooted so many times through the years that we're beginning to wonder if the next movie version will be Middle-Aged Mutant Pilates Turtles. But regardless of that horrific prospect, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are the latest filmmakers looking to bring the team back to screens, this time as a CG-animated production.
Since their creation as a rough-and-tumble indie comic book by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird in 1984, the Turtles – masked vigilantes named after renaissance painters who use their ninjitsu training to fight crime – have been on screens both big and small through several variations, including live-action movies in the 1990s, a TV animated series, CG film and a live-action reboot that spawned one sequel and featured performance-captured Turtles.
This time around, Rogen and Goldberg will produce, with Gravity Falls' Jeff Rowe directing and Brendan O'Brian on script duty, while Paramount has the rights to release the movie. Nickelodeon Animation Studio is crafting its first all-CG film, and we'll have to wait and see if this makes a fresh impact. Rogen and Goldberg have had success with comic book titles in the past, including Preacher and The Boys. We'll ignore the fact that the last time they directly tackled the genre on the big screen was The Green Hornet.
And no matter how this film turns out, we're already predicting an avalanche of "Hollywood's out of ideas!" responses.