Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is getting a new live-action movie, and it sounds way more intense than usual!
Paramount Pictures is putting a new feature project into development, according to THR, and it’s going into “gritty, R-rated, territory.” Paramount is developing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin, adapting a popular storyline from recent IDW comics, as a live-action feature aiming for an R-rating. Keep reading to find out more… Tyler Burton Smith, who co-wrote the upcoming Boy Kills World and who wrote the 2019 reboot of Child’s Play, is writing the script.
Former head of DC Films Walter Hamada is producing through his 18hz production company as part of his multiyear deal with the studio.
Here’s a plot summary: “Set in a totalitarian future New York City, the comic miniseries told of how the Turtles and master Splinter are killed off one by one, by the grandson of the villainous Shredder and synthetic ninjas.
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