Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Is Getting A Fresh Reboot

Paramount just hired a writer to reboot its Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, which is great friggin news as far as I'm concerned. I do not like Michael Bay, I thought the voice actors they picked for the turtles were annoying, and I didn't care for the films really at all. The Platinum Dunes team (that is comprised of Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller) is still returning, but a new writer and a "refocusing of the franchise" might help these films to not suck.


According to the Hollywood Reporter, writer Andrew Dodge is going to handle the script, and although he doesn't have a lot of action writing chops, he did do Bad Words, which I enjoyed quite a bit. I'm surprised that they are rebooting the series at all, since the first movie made like 500 million, and although the following films didn't make as much, they were still cash-cows. Critically they got slaughtered though, and hopefully a return to the old school style of the first couple of films will do better than the bombastic nonsense that we've seen in the recent past.