“Fans need to take a breath, and chill. They have not read the script. Our team is working closely with one of the original creators of Ninja Turtles to help expand and give a more complex back story. Relax, we are including everything that made you become fans in the first place. We are just building a richer world.”
— Producer Michael Bay, posting on the website Shoot for the Edit, responding to fans outrage that when he said at Nickelodeon Upfronts that, in his remake of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the amphibian superheroes would be of an “alien race.”
