Deadline writes that Paramount still highly values the
Turtles brand, especially after Nickelodeon said it’d be relaunching an animated movie with the same characters with Seth Rogen as an executive producer. That version is expected in 2023.
Onto the Jost brothers…
Impractical Jokers.
Colin has been writing for
Saturday Night Live since 2005, was a co-head writer between 2012 and 2015, and returned as a head writer in 2017. He’s coming off an Emmy nomination for his work on
SNL. He also previously co-hosted the Emmys, wrote a memoir called
A Very Punchable Face that made it onto the
New York Times Bestseller List, and is also co-writing and co-starring (along with Pete Davidson) in
Seth Rogen s animated take on the
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles isn t the only project on the half shell currently in development at Paramount Pictures.
SYFY WIRE confirmed Monday afternoon that the studio has tapped
Saturday Night Live s Colin Jost and his brother, Casey Jost, to pen a brand-new feature centered around the pizza-loving ninja reptiles who live in the sewers beneath New York City with their rodent sensei, Master Splinter.
Deadline, which first broke the news, the movie will be in live-action, though a title and plot details are still incubating inside the ooze. Per
Variety, it s totally separate from Rogen s wholly CG effort, which is being made in collaboration with Nickelodeon and slated for theatrical release in August of 2023.
Colin and Casey Jost Are Writing a New ‘Ninja Turtles’ Movie
Ninja Turtles that’s already in development. And now it looks like there’s
another
Saturday Night Live’s Colin Jost and his brother, Casey Jost.
According to Deadline, the Josts have been brought in to write “a new untitled
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film for Paramount Pictures.” They have zero details about the plot $50 says it involves large humanoid turtles that have been transformed from the norm by the nuclear goop but whatever it is about, this is a different project (and a new live-action
Turtles) from the Rogen film, which is animated. The most recent live-action
Colin Jost & Brother Will Write New Live-Action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie
It seems that comedians are in control of the cinematic future of the Ninja Turtles. Last year we learned that Seth Rogen was producing a rebooted animated film for the heroes in a half shell, and now Colin Jost, along with his brother Casey, has been tapped to write a screenplay for Paramount’s next live-action
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. With Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller, Scott Mednick, and Galen Walker producing, the film sounds like it will be more in line with the rebooted series that starred Megan Fox.
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