An all-newTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesmovie is in development with Colin and Casey Jost penning the script. Deadline reports that Colin, who’s best known for his work onSaturday Night Live, has teamed up with his brother Casey to co-write an untitledTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesmovie for Paramount Pictures. Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller, Scott Mednick, and Galen Walker are producing.
No plot details have been revealed about the new movie at this time, though we can presume it will followLeonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Donatelloin an all-new adventure. The project is said to be a high priority for Paramount following the news of Seth Rogen executive producing a CG-animatedTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesmovie for Nickelodeon Animation Studios. That movie is set to release on Aug 11, 2025.
There’s not much else for us to go on with the Jost brothers' take on theheroes in a half shell, but there could be an emphasis on the comedy elements withColin Jostinvolved. He has served as a key writer onSNLsince 2005 and currently serves as one of the show’s head writers. He has also been aWeekend Updateco-anchor since 2014 alongside Michael Che, whose week hasn’t been quite so positive.
Colin is also co-writing the movieWorst Manfor Universal, which will also co-star the comedian alongsideSNL’s Pete Davidson. He has also appeared in movies likeTom & JerryandComing 2 Americaand is set to return toSaturday Night Livethis year. In 2020, he released his memoirA Very Punchable Facewhich was re-released in paperback in June.
Casey Jost, meanwhile, works as a writer and producer on the hidden camera seriesImpractical Jokers. Previously, he’d worked as a writer forLate Night with Jimmy FallonandCharacters Welcome. He also had a role in the 2015 comedyStaten Island Summer, which was written by brother Colin, and more recently appeared inImpractical Jokers: The Movie.
We’ve seen many iterations ofTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesover the years, both on the big and small screens. Paramount first rebooted the franchise with Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes in 2014 with a live-action reimagining of the iconic characters. There were some mixed reactions from fans and critics, but the movie was a big success, spawning the 2016 sequelTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows. There have been stalled attempts in more recent years to develop another live-actionTurtlesmovie.
Stemming from the original comic book series,Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesfollows a superhero group of anthropomorphic turtle siblings who’ve been trained in martial arts by their adoptive father, an anthropomorphic rat named Splinter. The quartet consists of Leonardo with the swords, Raphael with the pair of sai, Michelangelo with the nunchucks, and Donatello with the bo staff. Typically opposing them is the villainous Shredder, the leader of an evil organization known as the Foot Clan.
A release date for Paramount’s untitledTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesmovie hasn’t yet been announced. Meanwhile, the CG-animated reboot from Seth Rogen is scheduled to be released on Jun 22, 2025. This news was first reported byDeadline.
