John Fusco to Write Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Young Guns and The Forbidden Kingdom writer, John Fusco, is set to pen the relaunch of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that we heard about a few months ago. According to Variety, he’s more than capable of handeling the project from all angles including the action because he’s been practicing martial arts since he was 12, and continues to study Shaolin kung fu.
Fusco penned last year’s actioner The Forbidden Kingdom starring Jackie Chan and Jet Li but he also wrote a redo of The Seven Samurai. Some of his other credits include Hidalgo and Young Guns.
“It is always exciting when you can come aboard a project that bridges the worlds of what you do with what you love,” Fusco said. Fusco will incorporate elements of the “Turtles” comics, created by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman in 1983, for the new adventure, which is being planned as an origins story.”
I really like much of what Fusco has done so far in terms of writing and his knowledge of kung fu and martial arts will help in making that part of the film realistic. I really excited about a Ninja Turtles remake and though I am already convinced it will be nothing like what I grew up with it will be different yet strangly familiar and that is all I need.
There is no director signed for the project yet but the pic plans to release in 2011.
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