Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol writers hired for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

June 8, 2011 by | 1 Comment

tmnt Image The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot is certainly going through a number of writers. In 2009 John Fusco (The Forbidden Kingdom) was hired to write the script for the live-action reboot, and then last year Iron Man writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway were brought on-board to re-work the script.

Now Paramount has hired the writing team of Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec, who recently worked on Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol for the studio.

In 2010 we heard the movie was being fast-tracked so that it could be released in 2012, but that doesn’t seem likely now. Producer Scott Mednick said the live-action film may employ face replacement technology, which would allow the turtles to be much more expressive. This suggests they could be a mix of both actor and CGI.

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  • Renov8dhun

    WTF! Man, u taking sh@t I grew up on and making it into a movie F U. Since I have hit my thirty’s, nothings been original. G.I. Joe, Transformers, Batman, Superman, Spiderman, Green Latern, XMen… all of them sucked. Now, TMNT… gimme a f’ing break. F the Smurfs too. Can we get some more sh@t like the watchmen?