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Taking the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in a bold new visual direction has worked out phenomenally for Paramount in the past<\/a>, but the studio\u2019s next experiment with the characters feels like something that\u2019s going to be tricky as hell to pull off well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n According to The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a> \u2014 Paramount is in the early stages of developing a live-action, R-rated film based on The Last Ronin<\/em>, IDW\u2019s 2020 comic that tells the story of how one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles grows up to become an even deadlier warrior following the death of his three siblings. The movie is set to be produced by former head of DC films Walter Hamada<\/a>, and Boy Kills World <\/em>co-writer Tyler Burton Smith is attached to write the script.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The comic series \u2014 written by Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, and Tom Waltz and illustrated by Esau Escorza, Isaac Escorza, and Luis Antonio Delgado \u2014 was far darker than most classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles <\/em>stories and left readers guessing as to which member of the original quartet they were seeing eviscerate scores of people on the page. Coming after Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem<\/em>, pivoting the Turtles <\/em>IP back to live-action feels like a risky bet on Paramount\u2019s part that\u2019s going to remind everyone how nightmarish the 1990 adaptation was<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n