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"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles creator Peter Laird has launched a scathing attack on the script for Michael Bay&amp;#039;s proposed remake. An old draft of the film&amp;#039;s screenplay surfaced online, prompting Laird to take to his personal blog and thank &amp;quot;the powers that be&amp;quot; for halting production on it.  The document confirms rumours that the four half-shelled heroes are to be members of an alien race. &amp;quot;I think the script that I read is so fundamentally flawed, and - more to the point - so NOT a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, that trying to make piecemeal changes to it in an effort to make it into something halfway decent is probably a fool&amp;#039;s errand,&amp;quot; Laird wrote.  &amp;quot;In my opinion, the thing should just be tossed out, deliberately forgotten, and the process of generating a new script, really a new outline, then treatment, then script - should be started again. &amp;quot;I have no insider knowledge of what&amp;#039;s going on with the movie, but from the bits and pieces that have slipped out, it seems like that may be exactly what is happening.&amp;quot; He continued: &amp;quot;I think all true TMNT fans should be grateful to the new &amp;#039;powers that be&amp;#039; that they did not allow this wretched thing to go any further. It could definitely be taken as a good sign if that is the case.&amp;quot; Ninja Turtles, to be directed by Jonathan Liebesman, recently had its release date pushed back to 2014 to capitalise on the 30th anniversary of the Turtles&amp;#039; first comic book appearance. Laird&amp;#039;s co-creator Kevin Eastman has previously voiced his support for the project, saying that writers Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec&amp;#039;s latest script had &amp;quot;knocked it out of the park&amp;quot;. Watch Liebesman discussing Ninja Turtles with Digital Spy below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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