Randall Lobb On Directing 'Turtle Power: The Definitive History of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'

Not very knowledgeable at all. This comic book came out in 1984. Now there’s just so much stuff and so much of it is coming from the animated series.

I don’t have hopes. I know, I’m confident, that I will like it. [At Comic-Con], I saw footage and I was laughing because it was hilarious. I thought the action was bad-ass. The details of design are really cool. The strange element of how they look, how they’re different, you know, Michelangelo has a shell, just the whole design of it. There are people who have watched this series in every generation.

Our lives changed rapidly – I bought a house, had two children. We had physical and mental challenges, we had financial challenges paying for all of this. We had juggling our day jobs and our families. We had all we had to do as fathers and parents and human beings in this world. There are many challenges and look what happened in the end. We sold it to Paramount, so they saw the vision that we had.

Here'€™s the funny thing: I wasn't a huge Turtles fan before this project. I knew about it and it was a thing I was interested in. I didn'€™t meet [Peter] until a couple years after that when we went to do some reshoots. At that point, I met him many times because we had become friends. He'€™s very kind and generous and a good person who is very much about art, so that made me very happy. With Kevin, his world is a whole different world here on the West Coast now. He'€™s very shy. He doesn'€™t really want to travel. He's got his own little world. He'€™s super nice. I only know about them from doing the documentary, and they have my most respect, but also I know them as people first.