Nickelodeon Creating ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Film For Netflix

The heroes in a half-shell will soon be headed to a streaming service near you, as Viacom’s Nickelodeon Studios will soon be producing an original animated project based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles property.

According to a report from The Hollywood Reporter, Viacom CEO Bob Bakish confirmed on a call that Nickelodeon’s films based on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Loud House are part of a broader effort to tap into the studio’s intellectual properties and develop original content for a streaming platform. This also builds upon ongoing efforts such as Viacom producing Pinky Malinky for Netflix, as well as the upcoming reimagination of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Here’s what Bakish had to say:

“This is both incremental business and powerful promotion for these two franchises.”

It’s also, as the article noted, the opposite of what you see other studios like Disney and Warner Bros doing, where they’re pulling their content from Netflix in order to start their own service. But in recent years, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has found new life on Nickelodeon. With the many different incarnations and adaptations of the turtles, going back to the first 1990 film and the 1987 animated series, there’s a lot of history when it comes to bringing Leo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo to the screen.

So it will be interesting to see a company actually join forces with Netflix in order to produce original content, rather than draw away from it. That said, what do you hope to see in an animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles produced for Netflix? Do you think we could potentially see something akin to another shot at a live-action Turtles adaptation? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

In the meantime, you can enjoy Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which currently airs on Nickelodeon.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter