For diehard Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fans, the announcement that Michael Bay would be producing this summer's upcoming TMNT live-action film seemed like a Bebop and Rocksteady-sized problem.
After IGN's first look at the movie's trailer at CinemaCon yesterday, however, maybe there's some hope for everyone's favorite oversized masked reptiles after all.
In what will be the first live-action Turtles movie since 1993's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III and the first film adaptation since 2007's TMNT, we find news reporter April O'Neill (played by Megan Fox) in a much darker world than we're used to for the Turtles.
"The focus is on April, a TV reporter in a city where crime runs rampant," IGN's article stated. "We see a series of shots of SWAT/Spec Ops-type troops getting picked off, ninja-style, as they storm a building."
There was no mention of Master Splinter in IGN's coverage of the trailer, but there was a new wrinkle in how Bay plans on treating the Turtles' origin story.
"The voice-over of William Fichtner's villain plays over these images of the raid and various shots of April on the job," the article states. "Fichtner speaks of people's need for heroes. We see images of canisters ... ooze ... all as Fichtner explains to April that he and her father are responsible for the creation of the heroes we start to get quick glimpses of: the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!"
Fichtner's character was also apparently staring at a Shredder suit later in the trailer, so that leaves no real mystery as to whom Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo will be squaring off against in this new origin story.
After a look at IGN's description of the new trailer and io9's alleged leak of the models for Shredder and the Turtles, is this movie on your summer must-see list yet, or will this just be another Michael Bay explosion fest?
