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TMTN's Director Kevin Munroe and Producer Tom Gray

On March 23, Warner Bros. is teaming up with Weinstein Company and Imagi Animation for TMNT, a CGI-animated film that brings the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles back to the big screen for the first time in 14 years. Recently, The Continuum was part of a press event at Imagi's offices that included a 10-minute preview of the film and a roundtable interview with director Kevin Munroe and producer Tom Gray. "I think it's especially important for us to concentrate on family. They are a family, but you never get a really strong family dynamic, like real tension between brothers and the way brothers fight and the way brothers make up and stuff. So, it's kind of nice to approach them as a family instead of just character archetypes, you know, the funny one, the smart one, the leader, all this other stuff and just go a shade deeper. So I think, you know, for the older fans, you get that excitement that you remember, you know when you watch the old series and it doesn't hold up the same way that you thought it did, by the idea this is just trying to tap in to what you still remember in your head in terms of level of excitement, and then going a little bit further. We're trying to go a bit beyond the in-jokes for adults, the little wink-nudge to the mom and dad. There's just really no reason for it. There's a level of fun to this movie that will hopefully bring in the older audience to this film." More...