How it should be, always.

Deadline gave us today’s scoop and I wouldn’t mention the fact that the Iron Man writers are involved in this story, but then I wouldn’t be able to talk about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and who doesn’t love to do that?

The reboot has been in development with Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes and now Iron Man screenwriters Art Marcum and Matt Holloway have been hired to write the new movie adaptation.  You may recall that last year Nickelodeon paid $60m for rights to the characters, and Viacom has been developing not only a new big screen movie but also a television series.  There are talks as well that “The studio is looking at this as its next huge franchise, like Transformers.” Co-creator of TMNT Peter Laird said this last year about the movie:

As you may recall from some of my previous comments, our initial discussions regarding the next film had to do with what we were calling a “hybrid” — live action with realistic Turtles rendered in CGI and blended in. This new idea — which, frankly, I am VERY pumped about — will have actors and stunt performers in full Turtle suits for filming in live action. As of right now, there is talk of using CGI to do “face replacement” for the suits so that we can get those great, expressive faces possible with CGI.

The other ideas discussed were a “Batman Begins-style”, retelling the Turtles’ origin story. Laird said that they are planning to return to the roots of the original comic book series, which for those of you who read it, own it or can Google search; it’s going to be sweet.   Sadly we are now looking at a 2012-2013 release.