A few months ago, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fans received both good news and bad news. The good news was that in addition to Mutant Mayhem 2 still being on track for a fall 2027 release, a new live-action TMNT movie is dated for late 2028. The bad news was that the film adaptation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin one of the more adult-skewing TMNT stories, had been scrapped. I was already bummed by The Last Ronin not moving forward, but now I’m especially shook after learning it was going to directly tie into one of the past film series.
Judith Hoag, who played April O’Neil in 1990’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, recently took part in a panel at Big Lick Comic-Con in Roanoke alongside Ernie Reyes Jr., who played Keno in the following year’s The Secret of the Ooze. During the panel, which was moderated by Collider’s Maggie mentioned that she’d had talks about joining The Last Ronin before it was shelved. Meaning, this film adaptation was going to be set in the same continuity as that 1990 movie, if not the entire original TMNT film trilogy. As Hoag said:
