Mutant ninja turtles reboot set to open in Korea Aug. 28
LOS ANGELES - The teenage mutant heroes in a half shell are battling their way back to movie screens with teen crushes, insecurity, rage and a hankering for pizza in a franchise reboot for a new generation.“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” based on the 1980s comic book series that led to a television show and then a film in 1990, features four turtle brothers trained as fighters.
In the 2014 version out in U.S. theaters on Friday and in Korea Aug. 28, the amiable Turtles named after Renaissance artists are brought to life with new performance capture technology.
The restless teen Turtles are fighting the criminal Foot Clan as nighttime vigilantes, but as Foot Clan leader Shredder’s evil plans threaten to obliterate the population of New York, the Turtles must leave the safety of their sewer lair to save the city.
Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures acquired the rights to the “Turtles” in 2009 and relaunched the “Turtles” TV series on Nickelodeon in 2012, bringing in a new youth audience to the characters. The film’s budget is estimated at $125 million by IMDB.com, and is projected by BoxOffice.com to earn $39 million in its opening weekend.
Reimagining the Turtles was a job entrusted to George Lucas’ Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) team, which developed performance capture software to make the superheroes as photo-realistic as possible in the production led by Michael Bay and directed by Jonathan Liebesman.
Reuters
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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