Paramount Reportedly Wants to 'Sonic-Fy' the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Franchise, R-Rated The Last Ronin Film Ditched in Favor of New Live-Action Reboot Movie

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are reportedly successful for immoderate ammunition daze of their own, with Paramount readying a live-action movie reboot bid inspired by the Sonic movie franchise.

Sources told The Hollywood Reporter that Paramount has ditched the R-rated The Last Ronin, a live-action / animation hybrid (although it could instrumentality to it 1 day), and volition present alternatively absorption connected a live-action movie. The sequel to Mutant Mayhem is inactive owed retired September 17, 2027.

First released backmost successful 2020, The Last Ronin features a dystopian satellite successful which each but 1 of the Turtles person perished, drafting inspiration from God of War among different works. It written by archetypal creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, who said it was based connected an outline from a communicative successful 1987.

The Last Ronin was a large occurrence for the Turtles, earning the communicative a sequel featuring a caller procreation of turtles. A Last Ronin video crippled is besides successful development, though we haven't had an update connected it for immoderate time.

The past live-action oregon live-action / animation hybrid Turtles movie was 2016’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, which flopped astatine the container office. Successful animated Turtles movies, including 2023’s Mutant Mayhem, followed.

Paramount has reportedly drafted successful Neal H. Moritz, the shaper of The Fast and the Furious and Sonic movie franchises, to pb this caller Turtles complaint successful a bid to “fully unlock its potential,” THR said.

Given the occurrence of the Sonic films, you tin spot wherefore Paramount would privation to get the shaper liable to repetition the instrumentality with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In January, Paramount hailed the occurrence of the Sonic movie franchise aft Sonic the Hedgehog 3 helped it walk $1 cardinal astatine the planetary container office. 2024’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3, which stars Keanu Reeves arsenic Shadow, made astir fractional a cardinal dollars during its theatrical run.

It feels similar aboriginal days for this caller epoch of Turtles films, and there’s nary denotation erstwhile the archetypal movie volition travel out.

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