Megan Fox to play April O' Neil in M. Bay's Ninja Turtles
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The only way I'll see this movie is if Christina Hendricks plays April, in the yellow jumpsuit, with the zipper almost all the way down.
Now that dream will never be realized.
Now that dream will never be realized.
'Nuff said.wetfart said:
Folks, urge your kids and the friends you have that have kids to avoid this thing. The only way Michael Bay will be relieved of his duties is if the movies he makes start to fail.
Here's to the first failure we can see coming a mile off with fireworks aplenty heralding its approach. May it be greeted on its opening day with empty theatres, perish in the flames of the Internet, and serve as an example for Hollywood of how not to do it.
thats...a joke right?
to be fair however really just because she was in transformers and is infamous for being "hot" would she actually be that bad?
well that said I barley remember transformers so I barley remember her acting
this might sound silly but I always loved the original film because it was gritty and dark (well...for TMNT)
to be fair however really just because she was in transformers and is infamous for being "hot" would she actually be that bad?
well that said I barley remember transformers so I barley remember her acting
this might sound silly but I always loved the original film because it was gritty and dark (well...for TMNT)
and here i thought this project was dead, well, fan fucking tastic
captcha: Be serious now
i think he is serious captcha, I'm sorry ;n;
captcha: Be serious now
i think he is serious captcha, I'm sorry ;n;
I find the bigest problem is she can't really act...at all. Any time she comes up in a movie, I instantly switch off. Then again, with Platinum dunes involved in casting, I'm willing to bet Shia LaBouf (or how ever its spelt) will probably either be playing Casey or voicing one of the turtles.
So in short uuurrrggghhh...
So in short uuurrrggghhh...
Those comments you saw are just the tip of the iceberg, visit any article about Avengers and Justice League, and fanboy wars are glorious.SweetShark said:
If you want the most delirious one of them all who won't stop nagging about the Justice League that it will be better than the Avengers if its ever made(emphasis on if its ever made). Search for the username LEVITIKUZ, his/her avatar is Bender from futurama.
This only applies if we're using the 80s cartoon canon version of April O'Neil, The Channel 6 news reporter. In the comics she started as the assistant to Baxter Stockman and was a fairly competent character though still very much a stand in for a human connection to the turtles world. In the recent reboot of the comics from IDW, she was an intern at StockGen and had an active hand in the mutation research that created the TNMT. Then there's the version where she's dating Casey Jones and is learning ninja training too.HardkorSB said:
Though knowing Bay she'll turn out to either be a soldier whom gets abducted by the aliens and learns to accept them, OR she stays quiet and runs alongside a protagonist teenager whom we've never met on a quest that is only marginally related to the turtles and the turtles are seen only a few minutes in the movie in shaky CGI fight scenes where you don't see what's actually happening anyways.
I don't think Megan Fox is a particularly bad actress or anything...she's not really memorable, but not bad. Maybe it's the roles she chooses or she just hasn't figured out quite how to leave a lasting impression on the audience,but while I know I've seen her in movies, I couldn't name a single one.
That being said, I feel Bay is ONCE AGAIN missing the point of a crucial female character. April O'Neil was acceptable as far as looks go. She was pretty, but I wouldn't really expect her to be the hot supermodel on the cover of a magazine and that, to me, was for a reason. Because she didn't CARE about looking like a supermodel, she didn't wear lots of makeup and the jumpsuit was function over looks. I LOVED O'Neil because she was smart and, while getting in a lot of danger and having to be rescued, she was also brave and useful. There was a reason you didn't see her in high heels in most of the cartoon episodes, if any.
Now am I saying it's a bad thing that they're casting someone beautiful to be O'Neil? Well...no, that's not necessarily my beef. If an actress just really got O'Neil and knew how to portray her well and happened to be more attractive than originally thought for April, that's fine, but considering that Fox isn't known for being much more than eye candy on a screen, I feel this is saying that April doesn't need to matter much more than being pretty for men to look at when they go to watch mutant alien turtles do martial arts.
I am willing to be surprised, Fox could really pull it out for this role...but...I'm sorry, I just don't have very high hopes after....pissing robots.
That being said, I feel Bay is ONCE AGAIN missing the point of a crucial female character. April O'Neil was acceptable as far as looks go. She was pretty, but I wouldn't really expect her to be the hot supermodel on the cover of a magazine and that, to me, was for a reason. Because she didn't CARE about looking like a supermodel, she didn't wear lots of makeup and the jumpsuit was function over looks. I LOVED O'Neil because she was smart and, while getting in a lot of danger and having to be rescued, she was also brave and useful. There was a reason you didn't see her in high heels in most of the cartoon episodes, if any.
Now am I saying it's a bad thing that they're casting someone beautiful to be O'Neil? Well...no, that's not necessarily my beef. If an actress just really got O'Neil and knew how to portray her well and happened to be more attractive than originally thought for April, that's fine, but considering that Fox isn't known for being much more than eye candy on a screen, I feel this is saying that April doesn't need to matter much more than being pretty for men to look at when they go to watch mutant alien turtles do martial arts.
I am willing to be surprised, Fox could really pull it out for this role...but...I'm sorry, I just don't have very high hopes after....pissing robots.
That's where the nostalgia comes from, the 80's cartoon. That's where the money is so that's what they'll aim at, probably.Armadox said:
This could work out if the teenager was Casey Jones and the movie was partially his origin story.Armadox said:
Also, In Transformers 3 the action scenes were all well made and everything was visible. The story was dumb and the acting terrible at times but the action scenes were good. The action in this one will probably be good as well.
Oh god, I remember seeing this before. I mean the photo, not the porno. Dear god, I don't know how they possibly made Roger [the alien] look even creepier...rhizhim said:dont worry, they are going to make a parody of it like they did with other series.Epic Bear Man said:They should've gotten April O'Neil to play April O'Neil!
Although I think I would barf if they turned the film into a live-action Rule 34 of TMNT...
P.S. If you're not familiar with April O'Neil, she's a pornstar. Here is a SFW photo of her:
sooner.
Or like I posted before, April become a Alien Turtle and become the love interest of one [all?] of the turtles.Armadox said:
*please see my previous posts for and artwork of this discussion :3*
We suddenly go from this http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh232/tone-master21/aprilep9.jpg to this http://status-cars.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/2megan-fox-1920x1200-33371.jpeg and I'm not even mentioning acting prowess and her complete lack of significance in Transformers(which had no salvation anyway.) we're the ones with a problem?Sylveria said:
I mean, seriously, this and the aliens thing... Completely wrong doesn't even begin to sum it up. The "dirty" comments are bizarre I agree but that's not the point here.
Okay, while it's hip to pick on Meagan Fox, I think she's not bad looking, and while not a great actress she's actually passable. Rather than knocking her, I tend to at worst classify her as beautiful but forgettable.
THAT said if Michael Bay has half a brain the first thing he's going to do is pretty much ignore the cartoon version of The Turtles, even if that's what people are most familiar with due to exposure it's really kind of the worst version of something like this to do in a big budget movie, especially seeing as a lot of it was designed to sell toys and such, much like The Transformers, so stylizing things differantly makes a large degree of sense.
Unlike Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had an existance before relatively mainstream success which was popular enough to give them the chance to be rebooted into the comparitively mainstream version that was beloved by young children and probably wouldn't hold up.
While I'd wonder at Megan as a casting choice for the cartoon version of April O' Neil, I think she'd actually work pretty well for a verion more similar to the ORIGINAL April O' Neil who was an urban antique shop owner (if I remember correctly, it's been a while) as opposed to a TV News Anchor. In the original version The Turtles behaved substantially more low key as opposed to like overt super heroes riding around in a mini-buss with artillery cannons they seem to never use hanging off the sides, in bright yellow colors, with a turtle shell on the front, and their name on the side (if I remember the Cartoon depiction of "The Turtle Van" correctly).
As odd as this probably sounds given the premise, I think the degeneration of the original "Turtles" movie franchise in part occured because they rapidly started to get too kiddie, and too goofy, to appeal to the cartoon audience. With the cartoon a thing of the past, something closer to the original version would probably work, featuring somewhat grimmer, more secretive turtles that behave more like Ninjas (and news flash, they kill people).
On a surprising level, if done correctly Michael Bay might be right for this kind of material, he's big on the huge scale, flashy fight scenes. If he can hire a decent choreographer and reign in his love of fast cuts and lens flare so you can see what's going on better, it could just work since the original comics were a not terribly deep, but action packed romp into absurdity, that was never quite as campy seeming as you thought it was going to get as a sort of counterpoint since for a long time The Turtles actually exhibited very professional behavior despite their personality foibles, and were largely viewed as an urban legend if even that since being Ninjas part of the point was nobody even suspected they existed for the most part. Thrown in with old school kung-fu fights where they battle and routine kill like a dozen or more guys at a pop. The aliens were still very much "WTF" occurances but, also behaved a bit differantly than the cartoons, more like something out of a horror movie, making them surprising even for the already crazy turtles rather than a "oh gee, it's Kang again... robots with laser guns.. passe", indeed the whole thing Kang is based on in the originals is substantially differant to say the least.
Just my thoughts. When you get past the whole "I hate Michael Bay and Meagan Fox", largely because of "Transformers", I think it's important to realize that despite how wrong he is for some material, there is stuff a lot of those same "problems" can actually be a plus with. Think something closer to the original Turtles (which less people have probably read than claim to have) and you can see where the director, and April casting choice kind of work.
THAT said if Michael Bay has half a brain the first thing he's going to do is pretty much ignore the cartoon version of The Turtles, even if that's what people are most familiar with due to exposure it's really kind of the worst version of something like this to do in a big budget movie, especially seeing as a lot of it was designed to sell toys and such, much like The Transformers, so stylizing things differantly makes a large degree of sense.
Unlike Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had an existance before relatively mainstream success which was popular enough to give them the chance to be rebooted into the comparitively mainstream version that was beloved by young children and probably wouldn't hold up.
While I'd wonder at Megan as a casting choice for the cartoon version of April O' Neil, I think she'd actually work pretty well for a verion more similar to the ORIGINAL April O' Neil who was an urban antique shop owner (if I remember correctly, it's been a while) as opposed to a TV News Anchor. In the original version The Turtles behaved substantially more low key as opposed to like overt super heroes riding around in a mini-buss with artillery cannons they seem to never use hanging off the sides, in bright yellow colors, with a turtle shell on the front, and their name on the side (if I remember the Cartoon depiction of "The Turtle Van" correctly).
As odd as this probably sounds given the premise, I think the degeneration of the original "Turtles" movie franchise in part occured because they rapidly started to get too kiddie, and too goofy, to appeal to the cartoon audience. With the cartoon a thing of the past, something closer to the original version would probably work, featuring somewhat grimmer, more secretive turtles that behave more like Ninjas (and news flash, they kill people).
On a surprising level, if done correctly Michael Bay might be right for this kind of material, he's big on the huge scale, flashy fight scenes. If he can hire a decent choreographer and reign in his love of fast cuts and lens flare so you can see what's going on better, it could just work since the original comics were a not terribly deep, but action packed romp into absurdity, that was never quite as campy seeming as you thought it was going to get as a sort of counterpoint since for a long time The Turtles actually exhibited very professional behavior despite their personality foibles, and were largely viewed as an urban legend if even that since being Ninjas part of the point was nobody even suspected they existed for the most part. Thrown in with old school kung-fu fights where they battle and routine kill like a dozen or more guys at a pop. The aliens were still very much "WTF" occurances but, also behaved a bit differantly than the cartoons, more like something out of a horror movie, making them surprising even for the already crazy turtles rather than a "oh gee, it's Kang again... robots with laser guns.. passe", indeed the whole thing Kang is based on in the originals is substantially differant to say the least.
Just my thoughts. When you get past the whole "I hate Michael Bay and Meagan Fox", largely because of "Transformers", I think it's important to realize that despite how wrong he is for some material, there is stuff a lot of those same "problems" can actually be a plus with. Think something closer to the original Turtles (which less people have probably read than claim to have) and you can see where the director, and April casting choice kind of work.