Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Co-Creator Kevin Eastman Says the Movie Will Make Fans "Very Happy"

In spite of months of ambivalence at best and outright hostility at worst leading up to the release this year of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from director Jonathan Liebesman and producer Michael Bay, the co-creator of the property thinks hardcore fans will be pleased with the film. In a new interview in support of the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Annual from IDW Publishing, which Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman is writing and drawing, he described the people behind the scenes of the upcoming film reboot as passionate and well-intentioned, with an "awesome" vision and "incredible" effects. "It's been a four, almost five-year journey to bring the next Turtles movie to life since the time we pitched it," Eastman told Comic Book Resources. "I know everybody is like, 'Oh, Michael Bay, Michael Bay, Michael Bay, he's gonna ruin it! He's gonna destroy it!' But everyone I have encountered has been nothing more than incredibly sincere to try and bring the Turtles back in a way that's new, fresh and exciting, but with total respect to everything that's come before. I've read the script. I have a cameo in the move. It's awesome -- really fun." He added, "What they've done with the film is going to make fans incredibly happy, including myself. The vision is awesome, the effects are incredible and the story will be something everybody can relate to and like. I'll leave it out there for the fans to let us know what they like in the end, but I'm very proud to be part of it. A lot of people are going to be surprised." The Annual is out in June from IDW. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles go, Ninja, go into theaters on August 8.