It’s been two years since we first heard that an R-rated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) film was within the works, and just below six months in the past after we discovered that Paramount put a pin within the movie.

The film was based mostly on the gritty TMNT The Final Ronin comedian sequence, the place one surviving turtle (spoiler, it’s Michelangelo) goes on a violent rampage to avenge the loss of life of his turtle brothers and mentor, Splinter. The comics got here from TMNT creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, and the deliberate film had a script from Eastman and Tom Waltz.

Studies of the movie’s full demise, nonetheless, are tremendously exaggerated. Just lately, Judith Hoag, who performed April O’Neill in 1990’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, revealed at Massive Lick Comedian-Con (through Collider) that she was approached about The Final Ronin. Hoag stated that she’d be completely happy to play the position as soon as once more. “It will be an excellent bookend for me. And possibly that occurs and possibly it doesn’t. We’ll see.”

That “possibly it occurs and possibly it doesn’t” seems to go away the door not less than barely ajar for The Final Ronin. Eastman and Waltz additionally shared much more lately that they nonetheless assume the film will occur. “I don’t assume the film’s off the desk,” Eastman informed Leisure Weekly. “I feel it’s simply delayed.”

He added, “Talking with all the oldsters at Viacom and Paramount and Nickelodeon who love the Turtles and actually have carried out a unbelievable job, whether or not or not it’s the 2012 sequence to Mutant Mayhem, I don’t assume it’ll not occur. I feel it’ll occur. One of many issues that anyone I’ve talked to on the firms, they know the followers love and assist all issues Final Ronin, as a lot as one other group of followers love all the things Level Gray [Pictures, production company], Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, and all people has carried out with the entire Mutant Mayhem sequence. We’re not disheartened in any respect.”