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Original script?

posted 14 years ago by czarofchaos
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On the trivia page, it says the original version of the script had the Prof. being revealed as an utrom at the end. Is this version of the script available on the internet anywhere? I'd like to read that!

[–] dsimpsons1 13 years ago

WEIRD.
Actually, Shredder was a utrom in the comics, right? It would actually make sense if they did that in this movie - that would explain why Shredder survived falling into the garbage truck. What would revealing the professor to be a utrom add to the plot, I wonder? However, I'm sure if they did this, many kids, including me at the time, would've been confused since most of my Turtle knowledge was based from the cartoons. I would wonder why Krang was in the Shredder's stomach. It wasn't until much later in life that I knew about the Shredder and the utrom thing in the comics. A little bit of my childhood died that day.

[–] fritzeanthony 13 years ago

Actually I think Shredder was human in the comics, I could be wrong. I think the only time Shredder was an utrom was in the new TMNT cartoon. I dunno.

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[–] shogunzx 13 years ago

The Utroms are an Alien race from the Comics and the 2003 'toon.

They were small blob-like creatures who were in Androids disguised as human beings. They were the inspiration for Krang in the 1987 cartoon. TGRI in the comics and the 2003 cartoon were all ran by Utroms.

Looking back I think it would have been cool if they had included Utroms in TMNT II.

IMO I think they did not because for one it would confuse the fans with Krang, and on the other hand it may have been a limited budget/time constrains. And last it could be possible that they did not have the technology to have something like that in a movie at the time.