R-rated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie isn't "off the table", says franchise co-creator: "I think it will happen"

Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael standing in the sewer — (Image credit: New Line Cinema)

Even though the Last Ronin Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie was scrapped, franchise co-creator Kevin Eastman thinks it might still happen.

The comic follows Michaelangelo on a mission to avenge the deaths of Master Splinter and his brothers. An R-rated, live-action adaptation was in the works, and though it was shelved last year, another live-action movie is planned.

"Speaking with all the folks at Viacom and Paramount and Nickelodeon who love the Turtles and really have done a fantastic job, whether it be the 2012 series to Mutant Mayhem, I don't think it will not happen," Eastman added. "I think it will happen. One of the things that anybody I've talked to at the companies, they know the fans love and support all things Last Ronin, as much as another group of fans love everything Point Grey [Pictures, production company], Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, and everybody has done with the whole Mutant Mayhem series. We're not disheartened at all."

"At this big macro level for these big businesses, I think they're kind of waiting to see, too, which way the tide goes," Waltz said. "But I'm always an optimist, and I think things will start to improve, and I think that's when things start to move. But I just look at it as we get a chance to control what we control, which is the comics and the core story, and then the movie's just that much better for it."

I'm the Deputy Entertainment Editor here at GamesRadar+, covering all things film and TV for the site's Total Film and SFX sections. I previously worked on the Disney magazines team at Immediate Media, and also wrote on the CBeebies, MEGA!, and Star Wars Galaxy titles after graduating with a BA in English.

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