“As far as Paramount is concerned, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol seems to have come off well and should be a promising lead-in to a new phase of the series in which Jeremy Renner can take over from Tom Cruise. So the architects of that fourth M:I film, screenwriters Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec, have been hired to tackle another big property that the studio wants to revitalize as a franchise: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
We don’t have any details on the plan of attack, storywise, but the Appelbaum/Nemec team is now writing the TMNT film that Platinum Dunes has slowly been developing since the property landed there one year ago. There had been a script by John Fusco written for a new TMNT film some time back, but when Platinum Dunes got the license, it seemed like they were going to go for an all-new approach. .. ((**MORE )) — Russ Fischer, **Slashfilm
