What's Next for TMNT?

MTV News had the chance for some questions on the new "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" movie with the film’s producer, Scott Mednick, who also served as executive producer on comics-friendly films “300” and “Superman Returns.” He shared some details about potential plot points and where else we might see the style of effects likely to be used for the film.

"What we want to do is service the story in a way that we have technology and ability that we didn’t have 25 years ago to say 'here’s the story' to the fans, and bring in a whole new generation of fans that can then start with us again," Mednick said.

Mednick went on to say that the film will be an origins story and that with the origins of the Turtles comes one of their greatest villains.

"Shredder is just one of the great villains for us to play with, and we are certainly expecting to bring the entire origin story — which could not be told without Shredder."

He also explained how the film was to combine live-action with CGI like in another film "Where the Wild Things Are."

"I’m an executive producer on 'Where the Wild Things Are,' which also used, if you will, creatures. And we have some technology today that they just didn’t have when the previous live-action movies were made, and what we’re hoping to do is to bring all of the cinematic tricks that are in the 2009 bag into this effort.

"The similarity will be that the 'Wild Things' creatures are actually there. They’re in the scene, they’re not CGI’d in, they’re actually large creatures. I remember early discussions of actually having the creatures be in the scene — because you can tell if it’s there or if it’s CGI’d in — and giving credibility to the fact that the Wild Things are in these scenes.

"We have a similar issue in that we want the Turtles to be a part of that world. So we will use CGI effects where necessary, and we will use the best costume makers that we have now. You can look at anything from 'Wild Things' and the Henson creature shop, to the guys who did 'Hellboy,' and you can look at the expertise in technology we have now. It just wasn’t there 25 years ago, so we will hopefully utilize that."

Sounds like the new live-action "TMNT" film is getting off to a great start.
More news to come! Catch ya' later!