michael bay

I’m sure you’ve heard about it, but in case you haven’t, the news on the street was that Michael Bay was planning on adding his own take to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live-adaptation reboot of the franchise.

During a press opp, when asked about the turtle movie, he replied that,

“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.”

Donatello: "OMG! Look! We're space aliens!!!???"

And if you could imagine, fans of the franchise went a little ballistic, no pun intended.  It seems that with Bay making the turtles an alien race didn’t settle well with the diehards.

One website went so far as to question the implausibility of an alien origin…  Their argument was that it would be a hard sell to believe that aliens talk the talk, love pizza and have a giant rat as an instructor.

Crickets…  an entire, huge field of crickets.

Seriously, an alien species versus a radioactive transformation creating walking, talking turtles doesn’t seem to be that much of a stretch to me, but then again, I’m not a franchise fanatic.

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