VENTURA, CALIFORNIA - JULY 24: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles perform onstage with Vanilla Ice during the 9th Annual Tequila & Taco Music Festival at Ventura County Fairgrounds and Event Center on July 24, 2021 in Ventura, California. (Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)
Another live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie is coming
It is a fact universally in Hollywood that if a franchise has even a little bit of success, we will get lots of movies and TV shows revolving around it until we’re all sick of it. I’m not saying that’s what will happen to the?Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but there?has?been a lot of news about Turtle Power lately.
For instance, last year we learned that Seth Rogen was producing an animated?Turtles?movie for Nickelodeon. The writer behind the live-action?Turtle?movies from the ’90s wants to reboot them. And now,?Deadline?reports that?Saturday Night Live?writer/star Colin Jost will pen a script for a new live-action?TMNT?movie alongside his brother Casey Jost, who’s a producer on?truTV?s prank series Impractical Jokers. This one is for Paramount.
Michael Bay, who produced the two most recent live-action?TMNT?movies from 2014 and 2016, will also be a producer on this one. All told, the Turtles have starred in six feature films since the early ’90s, the most recent being?Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in 2019. There have also been five TV series both animated and live-action, some original video animation, toys, comics, video games…you name it, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have done it.
How many Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is too much Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
The franchise has been very successful, with the Michael Bay movies bringing in over $730 million from the worldwide box office by themselves. I myself was a devotee of the?Turtles when I was a kid, but now I’m more cynical about these things and wonder where the line is between creators earnestly trying to create something great and companies cashing in on nostalgia.
What do you think? Are you interested in more?TMNT, or has the Turtle Power gone out in your house?
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