tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225302720400600293.post1755668422112381560..comments2024-03-26T11:24:18.304-07:00Comments on Peter Laird's TMNT blog: Ask PL #12Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger181125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225302720400600293.post-16442941636349540052017-11-22T19:45:10.203-08:002017-11-22T19:45:10.203-08:00คาสิโนออนไลน์ Online Roulette Game of the Onlin...<a href="https://www.casino168.co" rel="nofollow">คาสิโนออนไลน์</a> Online Roulette Game of the Online Roulette Game Online Slots Online Poker Slots Thirteen Online Slots And many other sports betting games at risk. Can come to risk. Our simple. Just have the equipment can be connected online and then come to our online casino site.<br /><br />The risky. Can be fun with the risk. To make money with yourself. At home of the gamblers. The players. 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I appreciate your attention to racial politics in comics, specifically as it applies to TMNT. As we have seen for the past few months, increasing the representation of People of Color has become popular among both the major companies AND their film franchises. You are not crazy for bringing attention to the often and seemingly easily ignored fact of April O'Neil's blackness. BTW I don't think Shaqille O'Neil would assume that the last name "O'Neil" automatically gains one exclusive purchase into Irish/Scottish/English ancestry. I mean that to say, one can still be a POC and carry the last name O'Neil simultaneously. Time and timing prove that you and many others were early in the conversation of whitewashing POC in comics culture. Keep it up and Stay up!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13604933300237306452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225302720400600293.post-48607087218078048022014-03-15T14:10:06.799-07:002014-03-15T14:10:06.799-07:00Hi Peter, I know I'm doing this really late (I...Hi Peter, I know I'm doing this really late (I didn't even know about this ask blogpost until now) so I don't expect you to even notice this.<br /><br />Anyway, I have trouble finding the creators of the "toy-characters" (Bebop, Rocksteady, Krang, Slash etc), I was wondering if you could shed some light on who made what, or if you don't know that at least let us know which ones you worked on?<br /><br />Another question, why was Stockman made a white guy in the Fred Wolf cartoon? Usually it isn't considered acceptable to alter minority characters to be in the majority due to diminishment of diversity, so why did they do it?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03441884663984752838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225302720400600293.post-1831351346189871642014-02-27T17:14:09.981-08:002014-02-27T17:14:09.981-08:00Hi Peter! Recently, half of a dream came true for ...Hi Peter! Recently, half of a dream came true for me. I met Kevin and had him autograph the new Volume 1 that my wife bought me. The second half would be getting your autograph on this. Do you frequent events where you are available for that? If so, how do I find out? If not, is there a possible way to get your autograph added to this book? Thank you so much! My kids are now growing up on TMNT, as I did, and I enjoy sharing the original comic stories with them!Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05565696334836755498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225302720400600293.post-29717766066680970652014-02-11T11:04:07.939-08:002014-02-11T11:04:07.939-08:00Thanks for the reply :)Thanks for the reply :)ChrisLynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17948758138772518065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225302720400600293.post-2723858280276997882014-02-09T08:56:06.670-08:002014-02-09T08:56:06.670-08:00I had no specific plans to give Leonardo a new loo...<b>I had no specific plans to give Leonardo a new look, but it might have happened as the story evolved. -- PL</b>PLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14615918982616632405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225302720400600293.post-73753119580407734012014-02-09T08:55:03.981-08:002014-02-09T08:55:03.981-08:00I am not involved with the 2014 TMNT movie, and I ...<b>I am not involved with the 2014 TMNT movie, and I think Peter Jackson could do a fantastic TMNT movie, though I doubt that would ever happen. -- PL</b>PLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14615918982616632405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225302720400600293.post-30800465548670860162014-02-08T02:35:21.668-08:002014-02-08T02:35:21.668-08:00Hi Peter, I was looking back over Volume 4 recentl...Hi Peter, I was looking back over Volume 4 recently and thinking about how each of the Turtles gained their own look as the series progressed (Raph with his secondary mutation, mini Don and his robotic body, Mikey's black Triceraton suit). I was just wondering did you/do you have any plans to give Leo a new look if/when the series continued? (a Battle Nexus outfit maybe?) I understand if you don't want to answer this in case of spoilers. Thanks!ChrisLynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17948758138772518065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225302720400600293.post-73301945269895955112014-02-05T10:24:09.908-08:002014-02-05T10:24:09.908-08:00Hi Peter: How are you? Question: Are you involved ...Hi Peter: How are you? Question: Are you involved with the 2014 TMNT movie like you did on the 2007 one? I hope the movie do justice to the TMNT. Do you think your namesake Peter Jackson ( Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit) would do a nice movie about the TMNT if he could? People are saying that a movie with Michael Bay would be a total disaster.margui118https://www.blogger.com/profile/06491643581538995476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225302720400600293.post-17588397428156382252014-01-19T08:19:03.492-08:002014-01-19T08:19:03.492-08:00As I recall, Kevin and I both wanted Casey Jones t...<b>As I recall, Kevin and I both wanted Casey Jones to appear in the second TMNT movie, as we both loved what Elias Koteas had done with the role in the first one. However, the producers of the second TMNT movie had other ideas (not many of them very good, in my opinion) and Casey was not included. -- PL</b>PLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14615918982616632405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225302720400600293.post-71470883374950209842014-01-18T16:28:57.865-08:002014-01-18T16:28:57.865-08:00You seem to know quite a bit about the development...You seem to know quite a bit about the development of the movies. Sorry if this has been asked before, but do you know why Casey Jones was left out of Secret of the Ooze?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16504695713274723827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225302720400600293.post-16967959993710775672014-01-15T16:47:14.108-08:002014-01-15T16:47:14.108-08:00I don't think I can help you there. When I met...<b>I don't think I can help you there. When I met him, he was in full Casey costume, which could have included a wig. In fact, I think it did. -- PL</b>PLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14615918982616632405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225302720400600293.post-17449287607448829592014-01-15T14:47:01.029-08:002014-01-15T14:47:01.029-08:00Hey Mr. Laird -- seein' as you met Elias Kotea...Hey Mr. Laird -- seein' as you met Elias Koteas on the set of the original movie, maybe you can settle an argument. Was that his real hair in the movie or was he wearing a wig?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225302720400600293.post-62634281178427108792014-01-15T08:28:32.435-08:002014-01-15T08:28:32.435-08:00Interesting. It seems to be a matter of personal i...<b>Interesting. It seems to be a matter of personal interpretation. Whenever I read anything of that sort, I only imagine what we actually did, which was to work on ideas for the story, do some designs, and try to help pound the script into a viable form. And, of course, exercise our approval rights as owners of the IP. We didn't call all of the shots, certainly... but we did call SOME shots. -- PL</b>PLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14615918982616632405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225302720400600293.post-35784830895358453502014-01-15T08:22:49.574-08:002014-01-15T08:22:49.574-08:00Although I am open to being proved wrong by being ...<b>Although I am open to being proved wrong by being shown some legitimate documentation which would prove I knew about this plan at the time, my memory is that Venus was never intended to be in the fourth live-action movie. Given my distaste for that character, I can't imagine I would have gone along with it. Also, given what I remember of the development process for that proposed movie, specifically the story part which we were working on, the inclusion of Venus seems pointless, as the main thrust of that movie's story was to be the introduction of a new "Fifth Turtle" -- ONE fifth Turtle, and male -- with the working name of "Kirby", who was from a parallel dimension. I believe both Kevin and Dan are mistaken in this.<br /><br />If I can muster the requisite energy, I might see if I can find my copies of the material created for that story, and see if there is any mention of Venus in it. I strongly suspect not. -- PL</b>PLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14615918982616632405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225302720400600293.post-77873858617743867642014-01-15T08:14:02.501-08:002014-01-15T08:14:02.501-08:00I suspect this might have been a situation where K...<b>I suspect this might have been a situation where Kevin -- who I believe was married to Julie Strain at the time -- may have discussed this with her, and not with me. -- PL</b>PLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14615918982616632405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225302720400600293.post-22131350535985081882014-01-14T21:01:58.768-08:002014-01-14T21:01:58.768-08:00I work in film a bit and I know there's a big ...I work in film a bit and I know there's a big distinction.<br /><br />And about Julie, here's an excerpt from an interview with her from "The Source" :<br /><br />"THE SOURCE: You should campaign for a part in the next Bond movie. What else is coming up?<br /><br />JULIE STRAIN: I have a part in the fourth Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie, where I play an evil character from an alternate universe. And I am working on a movie that Corey Feldman is directing as soon as I get home in the first part of June, called Busted. It’s kind of a Naked Gun type of cop movie. Even though I’m bigger than life and aggressive roles come easy, the best time I have is being silly and goofy. Also, I just finished Sorceress 2."Andrew NDBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08203830103519476192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225302720400600293.post-65866284078560955832014-01-14T20:59:01.319-08:002014-01-14T20:59:01.319-08:00And I honestly mean no disrespect with the quote m...And I honestly mean no disrespect with the quote marks around "working on." It's just that people often post about you and Kevin working on the 4th movie as if you two are the actual moviemakers/producers/financiers making all the decisions and calling all the shots.Andrew NDBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08203830103519476192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225302720400600293.post-61056132482505533222014-01-14T20:57:43.128-08:002014-01-14T20:57:43.128-08:00About Venus, it seems like it came both from Kevin...About Venus, it seems like it came both from Kevin and Dan Berger. An excerpt from a Kevin Eastman chat around 98:<br /><br />"RiAngelo: The new Turtles rule - is there still a fourth movie in the works that will use the new fifth Turtle, Venus?<br /><br />KevinE: Yes, there is.<br /><br />KevinE: We’re still hoping for a fourth feature film in 1998. And, the most important new Turtle, Venus, will be very much featured.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Mikey: Is the new movie going to be based on the old Mirage comics at all?<br /><br />KevinE: Yes, it is.<br /><br />KevinE: We’re taking a storyline called "The City At War" and most of the elements of that will be included in the fourth movie."<br /><br />And a quote from Dan Berger shortly after NT:TNM was cancelled:<br /><br />"The fourth movie was changed last year to bring Venus on board, but now the show that featured Venus has failed, so that’s not good." "If the surprising news works out, I can see the movie being made... but in Hollywood, everything moves in slow motion and most projects wind up like TMNT 4... always being developed but never getting made." "...I’d be willing to bet that if 4 happens, Venus will not be in it." "Pete never liked the idea of Venus, as he’s always wanted the Turtles to NOT have the ability to reproduce to maintain their isolation and uniqueness. Kevin I think is indifferent... he just wants to see the TMNT continue."Andrew NDBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08203830103519476192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225302720400600293.post-8970030730699310502014-01-14T15:33:32.499-08:002014-01-14T15:33:32.499-08:00"6) I'm a little fuzzy on a few things ab..."6) I'm a little fuzzy on a few things about the aborted fourth live action movie. We see a lot on the internet about "Kirby the 5th Turtle," designs for new mutations for the existing Turtles, strange villains, apparently the return of SuperShredder (?)... but from elsewhere we know things like at one point it being decided that Venus DeMilo would be a part of the fourth movie, and Julie Strain was going to play an evil enchantress from "another dimension." Do all of these things gel together in the last scripts/treatments? Meaning, at one point did Kirby actually become "Kirby, the 6th Turtle" opposite Venus? Did the Turtles' secondary mutations on the page go away when it was decided it'd be a NT:TNM continuance?>><br /><br /> <b>I have no idea where you got this idea that the proposed fourth live-action was supposed to have anything to do with the execrable "TMNT:The Next Mutation" TV series, and that Venus DeMilo (!!!!!) would have any part in it. That seems completely bizarre to me, and from my perspective and what memories I have of the project, it was never even considered. I also don't recall ever discussing with Kevin the idea that Julie Strain should play any role in the proposed movie. -- PL</b>PLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14615918982616632405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225302720400600293.post-7065647106709840042014-01-14T15:33:07.224-08:002014-01-14T15:33:07.224-08:00"Off topic:
4) A lot is being said about you..."Off topic:<br /><br />4) A lot is being said about you and Kevin having been "working on" the aborted fourth live action TMNT movie. Did this consist of anything other than designs and saying "No" to crappy scripts? I know at one point Dan Berger mentioned you'd written up a treatment or some notes to try and steer them in the right direction, but it was to no avail."<br /><br /> <b>I'm slightly puzzled by your quotation marks around "working on", as I infer from that that you don't consider our doing "designs and saying "No" to crappy scripts" as work. I don't know if you've ever had the experience of reading a full-length movie script, and the premises and treatments of various drafts leading up to it, and carefully considering every element of it, and trying to imagine how weak parts can be made stronger, and coming up with ideas to help bad stuff get better, and trying to figure out how to explain why a stupid thing is stupid, and why it shouldn't be in the movie, and so on… but I can tell you, it can be a LOT of work.<br /> I don't think we ever actually wrote a treatment <i>per se</i>, but I can confirm that we did write up quite a few notes.</b><br /><br />"5) What were the biggest hurdles within the fourth live action movie? Financing? Just a basic inability from the writers and "writing teams" to come up with a script you and Kevin would sign off on? At what point did the bottom completely fall out on the whole endeavor?"<br /><br /> <b>I always felt a little bit disappointed that some -- most? -- of the people we worked with on the various movie projects did not have more imaginative ideas for stories featuring the Turtles. I guess I thought that even if we (Kevin and I) were scraping the bottom of the barrel of our own creativity at that time, we would surely get some amazing ideas from the Hollywood professionals. In fact, I thought that maybe people other than us would have these amazing, unique and creative perspectives on the TMNT that they would blow us away with wild ideas for the Turtles that we would never have thought of. That never quite seemed to work out as well as I'd hoped.<br /><br /> I can't say for sure WHY the fourth live-action movie fizzled out, but I think some of it had to do with financing, although THAT might have had to do with the fact that the story we'd come up with was not inspiring enough to get the people with the necessary money to part with it for the purpose of seeing this production go forward. I can say that, while I wanted a fourth movie, I was not exactly super jazzed about where we had gone with the story. It pretty much worked, but it also felt contrived and kind of silly in some ways, and not really the kind of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles story I would want to see on screen.</b>PLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14615918982616632405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225302720400600293.post-68563033606875201342014-01-14T15:31:50.480-08:002014-01-14T15:31:50.480-08:00"1) Was Karai at any point discussed as being..."1) Was Karai at any point discussed as being related to Saki when you and Kevin were brainstorming City at War? Was that, like, an early idea that was shuttered, or is he just remembering things entirely incorrectly?"<br /><br /> <b>I can't recall any specific discussions with Kevin about the idea of Karai being related to the Shredder.</b><br /><br />"2) How do you feel about Karai as she's depicted in the other media? Your involvement in the 4Kids show -- in which she's Shredder's adoptive daughter -- would lead me to believe you're not wholly against her being related to Shredder, but between that and IDW (in which she is blood-related to Saki and is something like his great-great-great-great-great granddaughter) and Nickelodeon (in which she is again Shredder's adoptive daughter)... do you feel like the original intent and strength of the character is lost? To me, it always impressed me that you guys rolled in this strong female character into the Mirage books who would even appear to be Saki's superior (had he still been alive at the time) and didn't have any ties to any existing male characters or Saki himself. She was her own thing, and that always struck me as cool."<br /><br /> <b>No, not at all. I think she's still a strong character either way. To be frank, Karai was still a pretty underdeveloped character when Kevin and I used her in "City at War", and I think there was a lot of room for expansion of who she was. I enjoyed the way we depicted her in the 4Kids series, and thought it worked well.</b><br /><br />"3) We know there was a great synergy between you and Kevin when you worked on the first 11 issues and the micros... you two handing pages over your shoulder to the other in the same room, etc., etc.. How would you compare that time to, say, when you and Kevin were working on the "Return to New York" 3 parter, or much later with "City at War" (beyond just #50)?"<br /><br /> <b>It was very different, as things had changed SO much since the early days of working on issue #1. The business stuff was becoming a huge part of our lives, and although we still enjoyed working on the comics, it was no longer just something fun that two friends put together in their living room.<br /> Of course, it was only really that first issue which had us brainstorming, taking notes, and conceptualizing, and penciling, inking, lettering and toning the art in the same room, back in Dover -- I think we did a little bit of that when we worked on issue #2, when Kevin took a bus down from Maine to Connecticut for a few days -- but practically speaking, by issue #3 that way of working was no longer possible. It was already turning into a business.</b>PLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14615918982616632405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225302720400600293.post-77021783529476063892014-01-13T19:26:03.991-08:002014-01-13T19:26:03.991-08:00Question about Karai: since Kevin has written in t...Question about Karai: since Kevin has written in the IDW Mirage Ultimate Collection Vol. 5 that he seems to remember Karai being -- originally, in Mirage -- Shredder's daughter and not only was that clearly not the case in that, but would be somewhat impossible (Saki wasn't that much older than her, was he? And Karai had a 16 year old daughter at the time of CAW). <br /><br />So, my questions, on this note: <br /><br />1) Was Karai at any point discussed as being related to Saki when you and Kevin were brainstorming City at War? Was that, like, an early idea that was shuttered, or is he just remembering things entirely incorrectly?<br /><br />2) How do you feel about Karai as she's depicted in the other media? Your involvement in the 4Kids show -- in which she's Shredder's adoptive daughter -- would lead me to believe you're not wholly against her being related to Shredder, but between that and IDW (in which she is blood-related to Saki and is something like his great-great-great-great-great granddaughter) and Nickelodeon (in which she is again Shredder's adoptive daughter)... do you feel like the original intent and strength of the character is lost? To me, it always impressed me that you guys rolled in this strong female character into the Mirage books who would even appear to be Saki's superior (had he still been alive at the time) and didn't have any ties to any existing male characters or Saki himself. She was her own thing, and that always struck me as cool.<br /><br />3) We know there was a great synergy between you and Kevin when you worked on the first 11 issues and the micros... you two handing pages over your shoulder to the other in the same room, etc., etc.. How would you compare that time to, say, when you and Kevin were working on the "Return to New York" 3 parter, or much later with "City at War" (beyond just #50)? <br /><br />Off topic:<br /><br />4) A lot is being said about you and Kevin having been "working on" the aborted fourth live action TMNT movie. Did this consist of anything other than designs and saying "No" to crappy scripts? I know at one point Dan Berger mentioned you'd written up a treatment or some notes to try and steer them in the right direction, but it was to no avail. <br /><br />5) What were the biggest hurdles within the fourth live action movie? Financing? Just a basic inability from the writers and "writing teams" to come up with a script you and Kevin would sign off on? At what point did the bottom completely fall out on the whole endeavor?<br /><br />6) I'm a little fuzzy on a few things about the aborted fourth live action movie. We see a lot on the internet about "Kirby the 5th Turtle," designs for new mutations for the existing Turtles, strange villains, apparently the return of SuperShredder (?)... but from elsewhere we know things like at one point it being decided that Venus DeMilo would be a part of the fourth movie, and Julie Strain was going to play an evil enchantress from "another dimension." Do all of these things gel together in the last scripts/treatments? Meaning, at one point did Kirby actually become "Kirby, the 6th Turtle" opposite Venus? Did the Turtles' secondary mutations on the page go away when it was decided it'd be a NT:TNM continuance? Andrew NDBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08203830103519476192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225302720400600293.post-5710896139137480822014-01-06T19:50:29.783-08:002014-01-06T19:50:29.783-08:00Thanks, and the same to you! -- PL<b>Thanks, and the same to you! -- PL</b>PLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14615918982616632405noreply@blogger.com