UPDATE: Paramount Pictures has moved forward with developing a new live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, which unfortunately led to putting The Last Ronin on paused.
According to THR, the “new regime wasn’t keen on having the first non-animated movie in 10 years be a bloody, adult-skewing story. One insider says the studio wants to leave the door open to possibly revisit it down the road.”
SOURCE: THR
The fans are finally getting what they want. Paramount Pictures is officially developing an R-rated live-action adaptation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin!
Walter Hamada is producing through his 18hz production company with Boy Kills World’s Tyler Burton Smith penning the script.
Based on the top selling comics series by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles creator Kevin Eastman and Tom Waltz, The Last Ronin is set in a totalitarian future New York City and follows 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 and vows to exact bloody vengeance.
Stay tuned!
SOURCE: THR
