'Transformers' helmer Michael Bay strikes back at enraged 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' fans
Director-producer's extraterrestrial take on the superheroes incited anger last week
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Bay thinks "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" fans need to chill.
The 47-year-old director-producer incited outrage among fans of the superhero franchise when he revealed at the Nickelodeon upfront presentation in New York last week that the pizza-loving, crime-fighting turtles would come from an "alien race" in a "Ninja Turtles" film he is producing.
According to franchise lore, mysterious radioactive ooze transformed the turtles into superheroes who battle evildoers.
"Fans need to take a breath and chill," Bay said in a statement posted on his site Monday night. "They have not read the script. Our team is working closely with one of the original creators of 'Ninja Turtles' to help expand and give a more complex back story. Relax, we are including everything that made you become fans in the first place. We are just building a richer world."
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Fans took to Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites to vent about the apparent change to the wisecracking turtles' origins.
Robbie Rist, who voiced the character Michelangelo in the original 1990 live-action film adaptation, said Monday in a Facebook message that Bay is "sodomizing" the original movies and causing "the rape of our childhood memories."
Bay, who directed the past three "Transformers" movies, said last week that "kids are going to believe one day these turtles actually do exist when we are done with this movie" and that they come "from an alien race, and they are going to be tough, edgy, funny and completely lovable."
The new take on the "Ninja Turtles" is set for release next year by Paramount Pictures under the Nickelodeon Movies label.
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March 20, 2012 at 11:15PM EST Reply to CommentWe need to quit saying Hollywood is "raping" our childhood. That's not an ok metaphor for making a bad movie.
But I don't think Michael Bay understands that his name plus Nickelodeon had the fans uneasy to begin with.
mike
March 20, 2012 at 11:54PM EST Reply to CommentSeriously why not tie in the Japan earthquake/Nuclear mishap... Aliens pshaw! NO WAY!
Hamato Yoshi
March 20, 2012 at 11:58PM EST Reply to CommentMy kids are not from space you overrated hack, they are from a pet store. Why do you hate the 80's so much that you have to rewrite it?
Hamato Yoshi
March 21, 2012 at 12:00AM EST Reply to CommentYou overrated hack, my kids were from a pet store not space. And why are you ruining the 80's pop culture icons? Transformers, now TMNT, whats next? You suck Bay.
Owen
March 21, 2012 at 12:11AM EST Reply to Commentwait a second, did Michael Bay actually refer to a movie with his name attached as to having a "script" and a "complex back story". I am calling BS on this. No Michael Bay movie has ever had anything complex, and i can't believe they had scripts either.
Guest
March 21, 2012 at 1:46AM EST Reply to CommentDoes anyone have any faith that this will be good? Michael Bay has got to be the suckiest suck that ever sucked. The fact that people continue to allow him to make movies should worry us all.
J.Walter Swartz
March 21, 2012 at 6:09PM EST Reply to Comment"Michael Bay thinks "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" fans need to chill."
I think Michael Bay needs to stop being allowed making movies. Aren't opinions great?
ceggertsen :) yes!
March 21, 2012 at 6:54PM ESTStephen Monteith
March 22, 2012 at 11:47AM EST Reply to CommentAll I can say is I warned people not to go see his Transformers movies. Now that he's made billions of dollars from them, of COURSE Hollywood is going to think it's okay to let him do whatever the crap he wants.