Social media users are outraged with “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” production as many claim a recently released poster is insensitive to the Sept. 11 attacks.
The poster tweeted by Paramount Australia shows the TMNT crew jumping out of a fiery New York City skyscraper with the release date Sept. 11 underneath the title.
Fans took to Twitter to respond to the poster. Paramount Australia has since taken down the tweet, but the image was shared multiple times on Twitter. The movie studio hasn’t yet to release a statement regarding the poster.
Oh. I thought it was fake. It is real. Nailed it, @ParamountAU (look at the release date) pic.twitter.com/fce1Y1Z6jd
— Angela Mary Claire (@AngeMaryClaire) July 29, 2014
Unfortunate tweet of the day. New #TMNT poster in AU has an exploding building 9/11 release date = bad planning pic.twitter.com/J0000SN2gC — Prashant Mistry (@prashant) July 29, 2014
In other TMNT movie news, Megan Fox, Will Arnett and director John Liebesman were in attendance at San Diego Comic-Con 2014. During an interview with Comic Book Movie, Arnett and Fox spoke shared detail about Vernon Fenwick and April O’Neil’s relationship.
“There has been through all the various incarnations - from the comic, to the TV series, to the movies - there have been creative and artistic licenses taken in order to tell whatever particular story and I think that as this movie really evolved and before we started shooting,” Arnett said.
“It became apparent that there needed to be an evolution and the character that they needed to partner up and support April,” he added, “they needed a character more like Vernon and they had to change the rules a bit with him. What is true with him is that he is a camera man, that part of it stays very true, but now he kind of works with April and some of his crankiness has been transferred into that he’s looking more for an easy ride… And then he gets sucked in.”
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” will be released to theaters on Aug. 8 in the United States.
