Michael Bay Bringing Megan Fox Back Into The Fold For ‘Ninja Turtles’
Michael Bayfamously bootedMegan Foxbetween the second and third installments of hisTransformersseries due topersonal differences, but apparently the two have since decided to kiss and make up. Bay has just announced that she will be joining his upcomingNinja Turtlesreboot, making her the first official bit of casting for theJonathan Liebesman-directed film. Hit the jump to keep reading.
Paramount put thebrakeson the project last summer to work out script issues, so we don’t know yet what the new plotline will be. However, an older draft of the script thatmade its wayto aTMNT fansiteindicated that the protagonists of the film would be not Leonardo, Michael, Raphael, and Donatello, but Casey Jones, a security guard and amateur hockey player. (Think of how Shia LaBeouf’s Sam Witwicky led theTransformersseries.) If that’s still the case, April would likely serve as the love interest.
While Fox’s casting announcement is the first, we can expect to hear many more in the coming months. The project is expected to shoot in April, for a release date ofMay 16, 2014.
On a tangentially related note, Bay’s wording raises the question of whether the “Teenage Mutant” part of the title has been added back in. Last year, Paramount’s decision to drop the first half of the name drew fire from fans worried that Bay and Liebesman were changing the characters into non-teenage non-mutants. We haven’t heard any word of a title change, though, so it’s just as likely that Bay is simply using the common abbreviation for the characters.
