It is a new live action film that we saw after the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993) and Ninja Turtles: Next Mutation tv series (1997), but this new film is not a movie or a direct to video, its one of the web episodes or rumored to be a part of a web series of a new direction for TMNT using live action people in costume, the fan film's title is "FIGHT THE FOOT".
But the film is not an official release, its only a fan film created by a fan and with experience in film making. I think this gimmick is a pitch for an upcoming live action film for our heroes in a half shell, but I did some research and read that there are already plans for a 2011 live action come back movie and 3rd cartoon series of TMNT. We didn't read an update after that and after a year of the news broke out. It could be a pitch for the property of TMNT and producers of the film to have this kind of dark treatment, like a Dark Knight-Chris Nolan movie, or it could be a pitch of the movie producers for the fans of TMNT if they will accept a darker version and serious side of TMNT. It can be a reboot or something else.
But for me, I want a reboot, much more darker and follow the comics version that Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird created TMNT for Mirage Comics in 1984. But I still misses the 1st cartoon and I grew up with it and will love it forever. But a new movie for the old fan and new fan should be seen before the year ends.
The fan film shows a dark haired April O'Neal browsing some photos of a Foot gang member, then a Foot gang group barged in her apartment and beats April heavily, then in the dark, TMNT Raphael kills the gang group and saves April. ohh that is so cool!
do you like a TMNT movie same treatment with the fan film?
to refresh your memory, check out some links of past TMNT movie and videos