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Posts Tagged ‘Ninja’

American Ninja Warrior Tryouts + UFO’s – yovenice

April 7th, 2013 |

American Ninja Warrior Tryouts + UFO's
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Three people have emailed Yo! Venice! asking about “Unidentified Flying Objects” over Venice since the American Ninja Warrior set began testing on Thursday evening. The “UFO's” are created by these 1500 watt MAC III lights: American Ninja Warrior …

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NASA MPLM Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Space Mission Patch

March 27th, 2012 |

Author: Seraphin

‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ director defends alien twist

March 24th, 2012 |

Author: Seraphin

By Robbie Graham Silver Screen Saucers

Last week, while speaking at Nickelodeon’s annual Upfront presentation, Michael Bay announced that his upcoming live-action production of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would present the beloved characters as extraterrestrials, effectively re-writing their sacred origin story.

Predictably, Bay’s comments resulted in a stinging backlash from Turtles fans, who quickly took to online message boards and accused the filmmaker of violating their childhood memories (don’t take it personally, guys, that’s just Bay’s ‘thing’).

Anyway, ComingSoon.net took the opportunity yesterday to talk to the movie’s director, Jonathan Liebesman, and ask him what he made of ‘Turtle-gate’.

Liebesman had this to say:

“I heard about it, and I’m glad there’s such a passionate fanbase – I think that was good news for everyone – but literally, I’ve just been locked in a room with Kevin Eastman [original co-creator of the Turtles]. I think what we’re developing, the fans will love. I’m a fan, and I love what we’re doing. It’s a lot of stuff Kevin’s been thinking about for a long time and just hasn’t done. Anything we expand will tie right into the mythology, so I think fans will go apesh*t when they see it…”

Jonathan Liebesman

I think we can all agree with Jonathan that Turtles fans most assuredly will go “apesh*t” when they see his movie. The director then added, apparently with a straight face:

“We worked so hard on this. You just don’t want to f*ck it up and you don’t want to disappoint people who pay money… out of respect for the people who are paying money to see the movie – you feel those people are the reason why we have these jobs.”

This from the man who gave us Battle: Los Angeles (2011). How Liebesman still has a job after that plotless, excruciatingly bland military recruitment campaign is a bigger mystery than the real life Battle of Los Angeles. And Liebesman made that one without Michael bay… the thought of these two men working together is the stuff of cinematic nightmares. Turtles fans, abandon all hope, ye who enter the multiplex December 2013.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are aliens in movie reboot

March 20th, 2012 |

Author: Seraphin

Transformers movie poster (credit: Paramount Pictures)

Michael Bay is a veteran ET-theme filmmaker, widely known for his Transformers movie franchise–movies about robot extraterrestrials. He also produced the 2011 film I am Number Four, about a group of teen extraterrestrials who flee to Earth to escape a pursuing predator. But while Bay’s depiction of extraterrestrials has generally been better than the Hollywood norm (i.e. Hollywood films involving extraterrestrials typically depict all ETs as hostile bad guys), his latest ET-themed project is sure to upset more than a few people, even though it will feature benevolent extraterrestrials.

The film to which I am referring is Bay’s remake of the popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. So where do benevolent extraterrestrials fit into the plot of the well-established storyline of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Confusingly, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are the extraterrestrials.

Michael Bay directing Transformers: Dark of the Moon. (Credit: Paramount Pictures)

Bay made this announcement last week at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York during Nickelodeon’s annual Upfront presentation, where he treated the audience to an exclusive look at 3D storyboards for the upcoming live-action movie. According to Gothamist, Bay provided the following statement about the movie:

When you see this movie, kids are going to believe, one day, that these turtles actually do exist when we are done with this movie. These turtles are from an alien race and they are going to be tough, edgy, funny and completely lovable.

By making the Turtles extraterrestrials, Bay is completely rewriting the established origin of these characters. As Entertainment Weekly explains, “In the original mythology, four baby turtles fall into the sewer and come into contact with glowing radioactive ooze, which mutates them into four bad-ass warriors trained in ninjutsu by astute rodent Splinter.”

This wild plot change is sure to upset diehard fans of the original storyline. It is also yet another example of Hollywood catering to the public’s insatiable interest in UFOs and extraterrestrials.