Kevin Eastman’s much-discussed rumour of a live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was quickly shot down last week, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a new Turtles film on the cards – just not one where the stars will be guys-in-suits.
According to co-creator Peter Laird, the next TMNT movie will be a live-action/CGI hybrid and will hopefully see the voice-actors involved in the last film – Yes kids, Buffy and Johnny Storm! – appearing in the flesh next time ‘round.
‘’As it stands now, there is no intention of doing another live-action film like the first three, with actors and stuntmen in actual Turtle suits, contrary to what was said by Kevin”, Laird tells MTV. “We have pretty much decided that the next TMNT movie should be what we’ve been calling a “hybrid” – that is to say, live-action humans and sets combined with very realistic CGI Turtles (and possibly some other CGI characters).”
Laird says as much as he’d love to have Elias Koteas and Judith Hoag back to play Casey and April, they’re a little too old and crusty for the job.
“Unfortunately, I think they might be a little too old to play these characters now. However, I think Chris Evans and Sarah Michelle Gellar did wonderful work voicing the Casey and April characters in the recent CGI TMNT movie, and I think it would be really cool if we could get them to reprise those roles, but this time “in the flesh.” I think that might be the first time something like that has happened.”
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