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"The second half of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles creative team has endorsed the reboot. Kevin Eastman has spoken out in praise of Michael Bay&amp;#039;s forthcoming movie. &amp;quot;Sorry to have been away for so long - completely swamped with work - but it is some pretty exciting stuff,&amp;quot; Laird wrote on his Facebook page. &amp;quot;I had been invited to check out the TMNT film development by my friend Scott Mednick over the years, and a while back had a full look behind the curtian [sic] at what writers Appelbaum and Nemec, director Liebesman, and producer Bay are doing - and trust me - it IS AWESOME. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m officially on board, and will share more as I&amp;#039;m allowed... thanks all!&amp;quot; Bay invoked the ire of fans by saying that the new origin story for the Turtles would see them cast as aliens. TMNT co-creator Peter Laird has told fans to &amp;quot;wait and see&amp;quot; how the film turns out before judging it. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s possible that with enough truly creative brainpower applied to this idea, it might actually work. I&amp;#039;m not saying it&amp;#039;s probable, or even somewhat likely\u00E2\u20AC\u00A6 but it IS possible,&amp;quot; he said. Bay recommended that fans &amp;quot;take a breath, and chill&amp;quot;. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will arrive in US theatres on December 25, 2013. Check out Digital Spy&amp;#039;s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles gallery below: "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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