Classic ’90s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to return in legacy sequel?

A writer of the 1990s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie wants a reboot or sequel to the series that film started.

Fans aren’t really bereft of new content starring the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, be it in animation or motion pictures. A new show or movie is developed every couple of years. The latest series belongs to Nickelodeon and a fresh animated cinematic reboot is in the works led by Seth Rogen four years removed from the Michael Bay-produced TMNT: Out of the Shadows.

Those being largely cartoons or rendered by CG and motion-capture techniques, there is a yearning for the lifelike and practical effects in the first three theatrical efforts. And it goes all the way up to the very top of the 1990 film’s creative heap.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-writer Bobby Herbeck wants to see a revival of the 30-year-old movies made possible by Jim Henson. “Yes. The answer is yes. We’re trying to make that happen. We want to do a reboot,” he told ComicBook.com.

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And they aren’t alone. Fans are burning up social media at the idea. “We got our fans come to us on Instagram, they’re, ‘Why don’t you guys do a reboot of the first movie?’” said Herbeck. “We’d love to do it.”

The franchise’s producer, Kim Dawson, would add now seems like a good time with how much the franchise has grown into an inextricable piece of pop culture.

"“The truth is, this property, it’s established now after 30 years as a part of our modern pop culture, it’s not going away… It’s only going to continue to grow. I do wish that we could go back.”"

By “we,” she means everyone — as in the director and special effects house, adding that they had talked to Steve Barron and Brian Henson about it and “if one of the studios saw fit” he thinks they “could go back and reboot it like it was.

Time will tell if this happens. Speaking of, the third installment (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3, 1993) transported the Turtles back to feudal Japan. Shredder and the Foot Clan are absent in what many consider the worst entry in the series.

With new sequels ignoring old ones, like Halloween 2018, the fad in Hollywood presently, it wouldn’t come as a surprise if they ignored part 3 entirely and picked up with a new story. The same goes for that spinoff on Fox Kids, The Next Mutation.

Tell us below if you want another sequel in the live-action ’90s Ninja Turtles franchise or if you think it is a good idea!