A live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin movie is in development as Paramount continues with the TMNT franchise following the big success of the recent Mutant Mayhem animated movie.
Walter Hamada is producing the movie, which will be R-rated, who is known for recently being in charge of the DC films and who also produced the popular The Conjuring franchise and spinoffs at WB.
Tyler Burton Smith is writing who recently wrote Boys Kill World and who is writing Kung Fury 2.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin is adapting the comic book story published by IDW comics.
What is TMNT: The Last Ronin about?
The synopsis for the comics is as follows:
Who is the Last Ronin?
In a future, battle-ravaged New York City, a lone surviving Turtle embarks on a seemingly hopeless mission seeking justice for the family he lost.
From legendary TMNT co-creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, get ready for the final story of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles three decades in the making!
What terrible events destroyed his family and left New York a crumbling, post-apocalyptic nightmare?
All will be revealed in this climactic Turtle tale that sees longtime friends becoming enemies and new allies emerging in the most unexpected places.
Can the surviving Turtle triumph?
Eastman and Laird are joined by writer Tom Waltz, who penned the first 100 issues of IDW’s ongoing TMNT series, and artists Esau & Isaac Escorza (Heavy Metal) and Ben Bishop (The Far Side of the Moon) with an Introduction by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez!
THR first reported on the live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin movie.
