Welcome to fine tuning with Drew Taylor, your one-stop shop when it comes to animation news and

commentary. I'm entertainer writer Jim Hill and Mr. Taylor whose writings in the industry you can

regularly read over on the rep and whose musings on the mission of possible movies you can listen to

on like the fuse the official mission impossible podcast. Anyway Drew and I are recording this week

show on Sunday July 24th and to be specific we have started recording at 8 p.m. east coast time

5 p.m. west coast time which means that the 2023 edition of Comic Con International has just

officially come to a close. Security guards are now beginning to sweep guests out of the convention

center which is going to take a while that building is 2.6 million square feet and you were there

Thursday right yeah yeah I made a little cameo appearance you know just long enough to host a

hall age panel that was full of lovely passionate Ninja Turtles fans yeah it was a great it was

a great panel it was really really fun you had the director Jeff Rother as well as turtles creator

Kevin Eastman yeah it was really it was really a trip because I I am right at the right age to

have been infatuated with Ninja Turtles as a child the original kind of run of the comics and

the animated series and the live action movie so you know getting that to talk to somebody who

meant so much to me as a child and to tell that person how much they meant to me was really amazing

and he was just so gracious and kind and you know I was asking him what it was like working with

Jim Henson and he said oh he was amazing and Brian shot second unit which I don't think I knew

on the first movie oh yeah just what a what a guy you know the future and the past of

Ninja Turtles coming together on the big stage at a hall age was just a lot of fun they let you show

like a 20 minute continuous chunk of the movie yeah oh yeah and people went absolutely nuts for

it the movie is so I know I've been saying this for weeks Jim but the movie really is that good

and I just cannot wait for people to finally see it on August 2nd just to bring up our tiny little

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