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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin is getting an R-Rated adaptation

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles isn’t just for kids. The high body count, action packed, hit comic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin is getting an R-rated adaptation from Producer Walter Hamada. The script is being penned by Tyler Burton Smith.

The Last Ronin is set in a totalitarian future New York City where most of the Turtles and Splinter have been killed off by a descendent of the Shredder. One Turtle has lived, but which of the four is it? And, can the Last Ronin get his revenge?

Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman and Tom Waltz wrote the comic which was based on an older story by Eastman and Turtles co-creator Peter Laird. Art was by Esau and Isaac Escorza, Ben Bishop, and Eastman and it was published by IDW. It was one of the top selling comics of the year. The series recently saw the release of the first issue of a sequel, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin II – Re-Evolution.

(via The Hollywood Reporter)

Walter Hamada Joins DC Films

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Walter Hamada will join DC Films as President, DC-Based Film Production working with Geoff Johns who remains as DC Entertainment President and Chief Creative Officer.

In the announcement, Toby Emmerich, Warner Bros.’ President/Chief Content Officer said:

Walter is creative, resourceful, and committed to excellence, and will bring those qualities to his oversight of our superhero films. He’s a terrific production executive and served as an executive producer on two of the summer’s most popular films, New Line’s It and Annabelle: Creation. I’m confident Walter and Geoff, working with our filmmaking partners, will deliver films that will resonate with both broad global audiences as well as DC fanboys and fangirls. Walter’s a great addition to the Warner Bros. Pictures team, and I look forward to working with him in his new post.

Rumors of shake-ups have plagued the film division in charge of bringing DC’s characters to the screen after the performance of Justice League which so far has made $652 million worldwide and ranks at #9 for domestic earnings and #12 worldwide for 2016. The film is still showing in theaters and will most likely for the month.

Quite a few films are on tap for DC characters including films based on Aquaman, Shazam, The Flash, Cyborg, and a sequel to Wonder Woman.