A live-action TMNT: The Last Ronin adaptation is officially in the works - and it's rated R

TMNT: The Last Ronin - The Lost Years #5 cover art by InHyuk Lee
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin is one of the most popular TMNT stories of all time, and it's become a definitive part of the Turtles mythos. Now, its legacy will be cemented even further with a live ac🐈tion film, which will aim to preserve the tone of the original comic with an R-rating, per .

The film will be produced by former head of DC Films W🐈alter Hamada, with THR also reporting that screenwriter Tyler Burton Smith, who wrote 2019's Child's Play remake, will pen the script for The Last Ronin.

Though The Las🥃t Ronin isn't a horror story at all, it doe🌠s carry some of the most mature themes and darkest subject matter of any mainstream incarnation of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Set in a world where Michelangelo is the last living Turtle - IE 'The Last Ronin' - the story follows Mikey's violent quest for revenge against the Foot Clan.

The Last Ronin was originally told🤪 in a five issue comic limited series released from 2020-2022, though it takes its basic concept from an idea initially thought up by TMNT co-creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird way back in the '80s, in the early days of the franchise.

Eastman himself is a co-storyteller on the comic, with writer Tom Waltz, artists Jacob and Esau Escorza and Ben Bishop, colorist Luis Antonio Delgado,🤡 and letterer Shawn Lee rounding out the creative team.

TMNT: The Last Ronin also led to a current sequel series titled 澳洲幸运5ไ开奖号码历史查询:TMNT: The Last Ronin II - Re-Evolution, which 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:focuses on the four younger turtles who will take🐠 the place of the original TMNT in the alt-future timeline of The Last Ronin. 

A 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:video game adaptatio꧙n of The Last Ro💜nin is also in the works.

In the movies, 2023 brought the release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, an animated feature t🅠hat reinvented the TMNT for a younger audience in a new in🧔carnation that has also proved popular among fans.

Paramo♏unt has not yet announced a release date for the TMNT: The Last Ronin movie.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic line is about to undergo a big relaunch as the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:main TMNT title hits #150.

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