This is, like, a fetish thing, right?

It kinda feels like a fetish thing: “[WINNIE THE POOH: BLOOD AND HONEY director Rhys Frake-Waterfield] set his sights on another property…. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.” I mean, I know that I’m supposed to get outraged by this concept. That’s the whole point: shock value.

But reality must interject itself:

  1. This dude will not get the rights to turn the TMNTs into a bunch of sewer monsters sacrificing humans to a rat god*.
  2. There is only a small chance that his upcoming horror flick is gonna make enough money to…
  3. …let him mess around with all the other now-public domain IPs out there.

So why should I give the dude the satisfaction of an angry response? Heck, what he’s striving for almost admirable, really. Sort of like GWAR, but without the sophistication and charm.

Moe Lane

*It’s not a bad horror concept, mind you. You could get away with it as a parody. But they won’t let you [expletive deleted] the original IP outright like this.

7 thoughts on “This is, like, a fetish thing, right?”

  1. Considering they only got away with WtP by expired Copyright on the book and not Disney’s derivatives, I don’t see this one’s ROI path where copyright is intact.

    Given the OG TNMT is inherently more violent and visceral, I don’t see how “shock”-value scales either.

  2. Fetish? I suppose …

    I think it’s more that there’s always someone wanting to “push the envelope” … but the envelope has been pushed pretty far already, so there’s limits to what can be done for shock and awe.

    I kinda suspect Rhys Frake-Waterfield would have been a happier filmmaker in 1965 or 1975.

    Mew

    1. The “Internet’s Rule 34” is older than the Internet, and probably as old as the oldest profession.

      1. I mean it feels like people are publicly satisfying their personal peccadilloes, but I spend too much time arguing on Reddit.

    2. I would say, “How does one make this pay?” – except that, ironically, my eldest informs me that the movie has already made ten times back its budget of $100K.

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