Earlier thismonth Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles creator Peter Laird made aninteresting posting in his BlastFrom The Past online column.
Laird related ameeting he had several weeks prior with Steve Barron. Barron directed theoriginal Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie and is set to direct alive-action mini-series in the near future.
Barron showedLaird a tape he had of the rough-cut of the original movie which started thepair talking. "It is VERY rough," Laird said of the tape. "Thereare a few scenes missing (not many, though), there's no music, no finished soundor voices (curiously, in many of the turtle speaking scenes you can hear twovoices - the actor in the turtle suit and the puppeteer -- speaking the samelines simultaneously!).
Laird continues,"What there IS, though, is some neat stuff that never made it into thefinal released cut of the film, including several fairly long scenes -- one ofwhich is the comic publisher's office scene intended as the ending of the movie,from which I had only seen one still (I was never sure if the whole scene hadbeen shot). There is also a wonderful extended training scene when the turtlesare recuperating at the old farm, as well as many other character bits andpieces which got trimmed."
What comes nextis the exciting part. "I asked Steve if he would be willing to work on adirector's cut version of the film for a DVD release, and he said, 'Sure!'Whether or not the film still exists to use for a project like this, I don'tknow. But it sure would be cool! Maybe it's time to start bugging New Line"
So, a new,special edition DVD of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesmovie may be in the cards for fans. Visit NinjaTurtles.comand let them know you're interested. Thanks to Dew for the lead.
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