Summary
- Paramount scheduled a new family-friendly live-action/CG hybrid TMNT movie for November 17, 2028
- The project, produced by Neal H. Moritz (Sonic trilogy), effectively kills the darker The Last Ronin R-rated adaptation
- This “Sonic-fied” reboot aims for a crowd-pleasing spectacle and is the studio’s major pre-Thanksgiving play
Paramount has officially locked in a new live-action/CG hybrid Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie for November 17, 2028, positioning the Turtles as the studio’s big pre-Thanksgiving family play.
The untitled film is produced by Neal H. Moritz, the franchise whisperer behind the money-printing Sonic the Hedgehog trilogy and Fast & Furious, signaling a push for four-quadrant, crowd-pleasing spectacle. This project kills off the darker, R-rated The Last Ronin adaptation, as Skydance-era Paramount moves away from grim genre experiments and leans fully into a “Sonic-fied” family-friendly reboot of the TMNT brand.
The movie is described as a family friendly live-action/CG animation hybrid centered on Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo, marking the Turtles’ first live-action outing since 2016’s Out of the Shadows. It arrives one year after the planned Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 2animated sequel in September 2027, raising big questions about whether Paramount will run parallel live-action and animated Turtles universes or pivot fully to the new reboot.
The release date plants TMNT right in the middle of a high-stakes tentpole corridor, landing the week after an untitled Marvel movie and four weeks before a new Sonic Universe Event Film hits on December 22, 2028.
Under Paramount, recent Turtles films have pulled in roughly $913 million USD worldwide and driven $1 billion USDin 2023 retail, making this reboot less a nostalgia play and more a strategic move to weaponize one of the studio’s most bankable toybox IPs.
