It’s a good time to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan on the animated front right now. The Paramount+ subscription-exclusive Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles debuted its second and final season, the short film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Chrome Alone 2 – Lost in New Jersey will screen with The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run next week on the 2025 movies schedule, and Mutant Mayhem 2 is set for a fall 2027 release. On top of all that, though, there’s also a new live-action TMNT movie in the works, and Jeff Rowe, the director of Mutant Mayhem and its forthcoming sequel, told CinemaBlend what he’d like to see from this next reboot.
Last week, Paramount dated the live-action Ninja Turtles movie for November 17, 2028, a little over a year after Mutant Mayhem 2’s arrival. When I recently interviewed Jeff Rowe, the director of the Mutant Mayhem movies and executive producer of Chrome Alone 2, what he’d like to see from this next live-action go-around with the Turtles, he first told me about how he’d have conflicted feelings if “they cast teenage voices as the Turtles,” which is one of the distinguishing elements of his animated movies in the franchise. Then he said the following:
