The Turtles in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.Image via Paramount Pictures
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A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne from a misspent youth of watching monster movies on TV, perusing the sun-faded goods at the local video rental shop, and staining his fingers with ink from the Video Movie Guide. Areas of interest include science fiction, film noir, horror flicks, '70s disaster pictures, Bond movies, '90s action, giant robots, dinosaurs, super heroes, and the exuberantly schlocky output of Cannon Films. He also enjoys both Star Trek and Star Wars when they're good, and maybe even more when they're bad. As a Canadian, he also has a vested interest in Canadian movies and TV shows, especially the cheesier ones dubbed "Canuxploitation."
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We learned that there's a new live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie in the works last month, and now we know when it's slated to hit theaters. Don't start gassing up your Technodrome just yet, though; it'll be three years before the Turtles return to theaters. The film is set to premiere in theaters just in time for 2028's holiday movie season, on November 17.
According to reports, the new film will be a live-action/animation hybrid, akin to Paramount's successful Sonic the Hedgehog franchise; that series also has a movie due out in the 2028 holiday season, dropping a month after Ninja Turtles on December 22. Paramount, fresh out of an arduous merger with Skydance and looking to maximize its assets, is hoping that Ninja Turtles can match the Sonic franchise's winning combination of reverence for the source material with family-friendly humor. So far, Paramount has made three Ninja Turtles films since acquiring the property in full from co-creator Peter Laird in 2009; two live-action films with CG Turtles (2014's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and its 2016 sequel, TMNT: Out of the Shadows) and one fully animated film, 2023's Mutant Mayhem. All three have at least broken even, but none have had the blockbuster success of the Sonic films.
What Is 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'?
Created by Laird and creative partner Kevin Eastman in a self-published 1984 black-and-white comic book, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are four pet turtles who were abandoned in the sewers and exposed to mutagenic goop, transforming them into humanoid form. Trained in the art of ninjitsu by their sensei and surrogate father, the similarly mutated rat-like Splinter, the quartet (named after Renaissance artists Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello) battle evil in New York City; foremost among their foes are the shadowy Foot ninja clan and their metal-masked leader, the Shredder. Initially intended as a parody of Frank Miller's Daredevil comics, the comic succeeded beyond Laird and Eastman's wildest dreams, kicking off a black-and-white comics boom in the 1980s. However, the characters would not be limited to the comics page for long. Within a few years, they were the stars of a popular cartoon series, a string of live-action movies, and a successful action figure line. Decades later, they remain a permanent fixture in popular culture.
Unfortunately for TMNT fans, the new film came at the expense of a planned R-rated adaptation of The Last Ronin, a popular 2020-2022 comics series. It reunited Eastman and Laird to explore a post-apocalyptic future New York in which the last surviving Turtle seeks to avenge his fallen brethren.
A new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film is set to hit theaters on November 17, 2028. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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