In what seems to be an effort to quell the legions of hopping mad turtle fans, while Michael Bay has confirmed that the Ninja Turtles script so many are up in arms about is real, he's also saying that it's an old version. On his website, Bay wrote:
"The leaked script for Ninja Turtles that different sites continue to comment on was written well before I, or anyone at Platinum Dunes, was involved with the project.
That script saw the shredder a long time ago.
This is tired, old news -- Wait for the movie!"
I should hope it's an old version, because one of the original creators of TMNT is not happy with it. Comic book artist Peter Laird, who created the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" with writer Kevin Eastman back in 1984, had some choice comments for the script after reading it:
"If it is, in fact, the actual draft that was rejected and caused the production of the next TMNT movie to be pushed back to 2014 because the script was unsatisfactory, then I think all true TMNT fans should be grateful to the new 'powers that be' that they did not allow this wretched thing to go any further. It could definitely be taken as a good sign if that is the case. It reminds me of one of the reasons I am glad to not own the property anymore... because I don't have to tear what little hair I have left out while trying to fix junk like this.
I think the script that I read is so fundamentally flawed, and - more to the point - so NOT a Teenage Mutant NInja Turtles movie, that trying to make piecemeal changes to it in an effort to make it into something halfway decent is probably a fool's errand. In my opinion, the thing should just be tossed out, deliberately forgotten, and the process of generating a new script - really a new outline, then treatment, then script - should be started again. I have no insider knowledge of what's going on with the movie, but from the bits and pieces that have slipped out, it seems like that may be exactly what is happening."
Hopefuly Bay knows what he's doing, because with the fans upset, and now one of the creators, he has a long, tough road ahead of him...
