Live-Action R-Rated ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin’ Movie in the works

[Blackfyre]

Live-Action, R-Rated ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Movie in the Works From Producer Walter Hamada (Exclusive)

Tyler Burton Smith, who co-wrote the upcoming action movie 'Boy Kills World,' is penning the script for this high-body count tale.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

After the success of last year’s animated hit film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Paramount Pictures is keeping turtle power going by putting a new feature project into development.

This one, however, will go beyond the realm of the all-ages material the long-standing property is known for and instead go into gritty, R-rated, territory.

Paramount is developing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin, adapting a popular storyline seen in the recent IDW comics, as a live-action feature with the intent of making it for an R-rating.

Tyler Burton Smith, who co-wrote the upcoming R-rated action movie Boy Kills World and who wrote the 2019 iteration of Chucky horror franchise Child’s Play, is penning the script.

And Last Ronin is about as terrifying as a Turtles tale can get. Set in a totalitarian future New York City, the comic mini-series told of how the Turtles and master Splinter are killed off one by one by the grandson of the villainous Shredder and synthetic ninjas. One Turtle manages to survive, barely, and vows to exact bloody vengeance. One trick of the book was that it wasn’t clear, for a while at least, which one of the Turtles lived as the survivor had theweapons of all four.

 

[PharaohAtem]

Go all the way and make it a sequel to the 90s trilogy

 

[Hersh]

article mentions how they kept who the last ronin is/was a secret from the readers.. wonder how they would do that in a film adaption?

 

[Captsmackabeat]

 

[Neuromancer]

article mentions how they kept who the last ronin is/was a secret from the readers.. wonder how they would do that in a film adaption?

Probably no mask and keep it black and white since all the brothers have different skin tones.

 

[Hersh]

Probably no mask and keep it black and white since all the brothers have different skin tones.

heh.. a black and white in 2025 aint flying. especially 1 that revolves around green and there mask colors..

 

[Neuromancer]

heh.. a black and white in 2025 aint flying. especially 1 that revolves around green and there mask colors..

Who knows if it's animated it might look like Star Wars Visions.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Go all the way and make it a sequel to the 90s trilogy

Nah just the OG and lets pretend the other two were made for Tubi.

 

[Roid Jones]

That would be so dope

 

[Moose_Greyjoy]

Huge financial risk imo , but I’m excited

 

[Duke Dixon]

I'd love to see it come out but this has being stuck in development hell written all over it.

 

[StackUp]

i fear that they'll fumble this but hoping for the best. Jim Henson would've been in his BAG for this damn!

i have been really enjoying tmnt again lately tho - rise was dope and so was the mutant mayhem movie, the new arcade game lowkey fire too

 

[malbaker86]

 

[Rekkapryde]

depends on who is directing to pull this off.

 

[Ironman]

Too many unknowns for me yet