Are you ready for a full-fledged live-action return for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? We’ve had plenty of animated releases in movies and TV, but it looks like theres a new live-action film on the horizon. The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Neal H. Moritz, the producer behind the Sonic The Hedgehog series is in negotiations to re-start TMNT on the big screen.
The move comes as Skydance is taking a look at Paramount’s slate of IP and seeing what they can produce from it. Paramount fully owns the TMNT brand, they bought the rights from Peter Laird in 2009. They want to use that to its fullest potential.
We haven’t had a live-action TMNT movie in theaters since the mid-2010s with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows was a middling film at the box office. The latest animated feature, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem released in 2023 to significant critical acclaim and spawned a TV series, Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
This does come with bad news however, the adaptation of The Last Ronin that we were supposed to get has been shelved for the time being. They didn’t want an R-rated Turtles movie to be the first thing back in live-action. They could revisit the movie at another time though.
The sequel to Mutant Mayhem from producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg is still set for a September 17th, 2027 release date.
According to THR’s sources, they want to Sonic-fy the TMNT franchise. So imagine thinking that phrase about 8 years ago.
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Source: THR
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