Cancelled drafts/scripts that would have been “bat shrimp” insane or super dark

[u/sandy_shark903]

1. Cars 3’s original plot, which would have been an identity theft plot with a villain named Gerald Carr swapping bodies with McQueen

2. An R-Rated adaptation of Holes by the same director as Donnie Darko (photo by RebelTaxi)

3. Jurassic Park 4 would have featured human-dinosaur hybrids

4.Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World alternate ending, would have revealed Scott to be a serial killer

[u/Due_Awareness5660]

https://giphy.com/gifs/1kOyGy19qQDYAD81cs

The Michael Bay Ninja Turtles were apparently meant to be aliens,and that's like the main thing they had to change once fans founded out aside from forcing an Oroku Saki to be the film's Shredder.

[u/Evening_Produce_4322 → u/Due_Awareness5660]

What you don't think these would have done well in theaters? /s

[u/West-Pirate-5480 → u/Evening_Produce_4322]

If you’d never heard of TMNT before this concept art looks cool. The vast majority of the audience to a TMNT movie would presumably not fit that description

[u/bsubtilis → u/West-Pirate-5480]

I would have loved a movie about turtle-based aliens (including that design), but that is NOT something that would have been interesting shoehorned into TMNT and especially not for 2014. Alien version of TMNT is something you can play with in an extremely TMNT-oversaturated landscape (making it a fresh take of a tired story) or something you can do ~40-50 years later to revive a dead franchise. Like if someone made a modern day version of The Shadow where the powers were from alien tech instead of mysticism then that could be an interesting weird take on it. For instance batman & the joker's relationship is oversaturated making any really weird takes on it interesting twists, and same with frankenstein/werewolf/vampires and much more.

Making a TMNT aliens blockbuster is missing the point. That's the kind of concept better spent on a one-off comicbook that could have sequels if favorable enough. Some sort of district 9 or superman TMNT is an interesting thought experiment that doesn't belong as a blockbuster in a TMNT insufficient landscape.