As you’re probably aware, today marks the U.S. release date for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Michael Bay–produced live-action reboot movie that stars Megan Fox and four giant CGI man-turtles, based on the indie comic licensing juggernaut created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird back in the 1980s. And that means it’s time for a Tale of Development Hell Flashback Special!
In a series of stories posted on this blog, I’ve talked about a couple of licensed novels I was involved in that never really got off the ground: one based on the classic cartoon Speed Racer, the other a team-up of Spider-Man and the X-Men’s resident Cajun, Gambit. Believe me, there were quite a number of similar projects I started working on that, for one reason or another, got cast into the junk drawer, never to see the light of day…until I started the “Tales of Development Hell” feature, of course. For instance, back in the early 2000s I was supposed to write a trilogy of fantasy novels starring a certain quartet of heroes in a halfshell, with the involvement of Kevin Eastman. To learn the details, just check out this post from August 2011 and read all about it!
