Want to see some more heroes in a halfshell? You might not have to wait much longer!
Variety reports that John Fusco, writer of the Jackie Chan action film Forbidden Kingdom as well as Hidalgo, has been tapped to script a live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles relaunch, due out in 2011. Fusco apparently has been studying Shaolin kung fu since the age of 12.
“It is always exciting when you can come aboard a project that bridges the worlds of what you do with what you love,” Fusco told Variety.
Apparently, this film will incorporate Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman’s 1983 comic to serve as a on-screen origin story — which considering that this was half parody and half tribute to ninja epics such as Frank Miller’s Ronin (in edition to “mutants” such as the X-Men), means it may be a darker film than the 1987 animated series.
That said, as someone who loved those earlier comics, I seem to recall many of those elements from the first few trades — especially with Leonardo being ambushed by the Foot and the Turtles convelescing in the countryside — already being in the first film, way back in 1990. Either which way, I’m pretty excited!
