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Will Arnett cast in Ninja Turtles Jonathan Liebesman’s Ninja Turtles has added another big name to its growing ensemble, with Will Arnett signing on to play an unspecified role…

Will Arnett cast in Ninja Turtles

Jonathan Liebesman’s Ninja Turtles has added another big name to its growing ensemble, with Will Arnett signing on to play an unspecified role…

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot gets director Jonathan Liebesman It’s been almost a year since Paramount’s long-in-pre-production Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot got writers in the form of M:I4 scribes Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec. But the production may have finally found itself a director…

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot gets director Jonathan Liebesman

It’s been almost a year since Paramount’s long-in-pre-production Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot got writers in the form of M:I4 scribes Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec. But the production may have finally found itself a director…

The Story Behind Battle: Los Angeles In November 2008, Columbia Pictures officially announced that Jonathan Liebesman had been hired to direct a tentpole sci-fi film called Battle: Los Angeles. Based on a story by Chris Bertolini, itself inspired by the real-life Battle Of Los Angeles, it would follow a Marine platoon’s fight against invading aliens. Dark Knight star Aaron Eckhart was already attached to head up the cast. For Liebesman, who has since all but disowned Darkness Falls, Battle: Los Angeles was right up his street.

“These genres, war movies and aliens, are much more of a passion than horror movies were for me,” he reveals. “That was sort of a way to break in, for someone who doesn’t write his own material. “And this kind of stuff is much more what I’m interested in and where I would hope to keep going and improving. You know, getting better scripts in these types of genres is kind of what I’m hoping to do.” This was a man with ambition…

The Story Behind Battle: Los Angeles

In November 2008, Columbia Pictures officially announced that Jonathan Liebesman had been hired to direct a tentpole sci-fi film called Battle: Los Angeles.

Based on a story by Chris Bertolini, itself inspired by the real-life Battle Of Los Angeles, it would follow a Marine platoon’s fight against invading aliens. Dark Knight star Aaron Eckhart was already attached to head up the cast.

For Liebesman, who has since all but disowned Darkness Falls, Battle: Los Angeles was right up his street.

“These genres, war movies and aliens, are much more of a passion than horror movies were for me,” he reveals. “That was sort of a way to break in, for someone who doesn’t write his own material.

“And this kind of stuff is much more what I’m interested in and where I would hope to keep going and improving. You know, getting better scripts in these types of genres is kind of what I’m hoping to do.” This was a man with ambition…