A Series of Villain-Driven TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Film Are Being Developed for Paramount+
As Seth Rogen and his long-time producing partner Evan Goldberg develop their CG animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot film for Nickelodeon, Paramount+ has revealed that they have even more plans for the franchise!
The streaming service has announced that following the release of the new movie, they will launch a new series of films that will put the focus on the villains in the franchise. As you know, the TMNT franchise is filled with lots of fun and colorful villains!
There’s no information given on the characters that these movies will focus on but some of the main villains in the franchise include Shredder, Krang, Rocksteady and Bebop, and The Foot Clan. But then there are a ton of lesser known villains like Rat King, Slash, Tiger Claw, General Traag, Pizza Monsters, Baxter Stockman, Tokka and Rahzar, and more.
It’ll be interesting to see what villain characters they end up playing with in this series of films. Are there any TMNT villains you’d like to see get their own movie?
In regards to Rogen’s project, in a previous interview, he explained that this new film will lean more towards a teenage coming-of-age story:
“As a lifelong fan of Ninja Turtles, weirdly the ‘Teenage’ part of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was always the part that stuck out to me the most. And as someone who loves teenage movies, and who’s made a lot of teenage movies, and who literally got their start in their entire profession by writing a teenage movie, the idea of kind of honing in on that element was really exciting to us. I mean, not disregarding the rest, but really using that as kind of a jumping off point for the film.”
Jeff Rowe (Gravity Falls, Connected) is set to direct Rogen’s project while Brendan O’Brien (Neighbors: Sorority Rising) is writing the script.