New live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie in the works, but The Last Ronin is being shelved

It’s been nearly a decade since the last live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, but THR reports that a new project is finally in the works. Unfortunately, another live-action project based on The Last Ronin may have been shelved to accommodate this new movie.

The outlet reports that Fast & Furious franchise producer Neal H. Moritz is in negotiations to reboot the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise for Paramount Pictures. Multiple sources have said that the studio wants to “Sonic-fy” the franchise. As the three films in the Sonic the Hedgehog series have grossed over $1.2 billion worldwide, that makes sense. Moritz is the producer behind the Sonic movies. “If you want Sonic, you go to the guy who did Sonic,” said one insider.

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However, as I mentioned above, this isn’t good news for the other live-action Ninja Turtles project that has been in the works for a few years. The studio was developing an R-rated adaptation of The Last Ronin, the comic mini-series written by TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman and Tom Waltz. Nobody filmmaker Ilya Naishuller was in talks to direct, but the project has been put on the back burner as “the new regime wasn’t keen on having the first non-animated movie in 10 years be a bloody, adult-skewing story.” However, it could be revisited in future, but for now, the future of the Ninja Turtles is looking more family-friendly.

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