One would suppose that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are a fairly easy idea. You’ve bought 4 brothers with distinct personalities, they’re ninjas and turtles. They wish to celebration they usually combat the Shredder. Rinse, repeat, cowabunga.
However for no matter purpose, present rights holders Paramount, similar to New Line Cinema and others earlier than them, really feel the necessity to maintain reinventing the wheel with regards to the heroes in a half-shell. So we actually shouldn’t be shock to listen to {that a} new live-action Turtles film is within the works, simply two years after the animated hit Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. And it’s all Sonic the Hedgehog‘s fault.
In keeping with The Hollywood Reporter, “a number of sources say Paramount needs to “Sonic-fy” the TMNT franchise,” which is why the studio has employed Sonic the Hedgehog producer Neal H. Moritz to provide the Turtles film. “If you’d like Sonic, you go to the man who did Sonic,” mentioned an unnamed supply.
On one hand, it’s simple to see why Paramount would make this transfer. The Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, which at present consists of three movies with a fourth on the best way, has been extremely succesful for the studio. And that’s with an IP that has had no film presence earlier than 2020.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have been a way more fixed presence on the large display screen. Their 1990 movie was an indie hit and has solely grow to be extra beloved over the many years, even when the 2 follow-ups failed to hold the identical momentum. A 2007 animated movie didn’t revive the film franchise, even when tv sequence and video video games saved the turtles alive in some kind. The 2012 Michael Bay produced live-action film made good cash on the field workplace, however was reviled by followers and critics alike, a lot in order that the significantly better follow-up Out of the Shadows (2016) flopped.
