Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4: What Happened to this Unmade Movie?

Those of us that grew up in the 90s remember the complete overtaking of pop culture that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles experienced. Suddenly every kid was saying Cowabunga and only wanted to eat pizza. Through the onslaught of Turtlesmania, a ton of merchandise was made. Toys, clothes, games, and of course movies.
The original live-action film came out in 1990 and followed with two sequels in quick succession. While the first film was lauded by audiences, the second film began to show some cracks in the armor of the franchise. By the time the third film hit theaters in 1993, the fad had begun to wane. The third film made nowhere near the amount that the first film had brought in during its theatrical run and had cost more to make.
A lot of fans criticized the new suits as the Henson Creature Shop opted out of the series after the second film. Things did not look good for the bodacious bros. Studio execs turned to Turtles creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird to come up with ideas for a fourth instalment for the series, hoping that it might right the ship and bring the tubular turtles back to the glory of the first film. But since this series is about UNMADE films, then you know that things didn't end up that way. Let's find out What Happened To The Unmade Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4?
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[@mattyt1961]

The Leo mutation seems like the only one that wasn't thought out. The rest make sense, but his feels un-inspired... sadly it was probably the first one they thought of

[@ultraturbojack2926]

We’re just gonna gloss over that “evil” April O Neal had her bazongas hanging out?

[@elloowu6293]

The puppetry involved in this movie sounds like it'd be a nightmare 😂

[@takaotsu3592]

I realized the masks are not a disguise but a means to tell who is who. 😅

[@Axolotl_Mischief]

At least in the post-Mirage stuff. They were originally all the same color.

[@screenwriterjohn]

I suppose all their people look alike to you? Racist.

[@richewilson6394]

OMG I love Venus de Milo!!! Admittedly not the design of her in the next mutation has her but something a little more subtle. But the concept is still good, that yeah she could be a result of the existing ooze but if she had like some other outside mutation thing like a form of a magical item or some kind of super natural mutation. But the fact that she was pretty much on her own, and having to learn all these unique and otherworldly knowledge that no one else knows. On top of having her just losing the only person that knew of her existence and then being thrown to find and help others like herself. Takes a lot of courage and strength of character to make that kind of drastic change in a person's life. She also has potential not only in character development in a new character that we've been pretty much seen 4b .But there's the fact that she can add some tension between the turtles as far as romantically as well as the dynamic of the group.

[@AustynSN]

Sequel Idea: TMNT: The Fifth Turtle? The four try to contain the chaos as the city is endangered in a fight between Venus, Slash, Zach and Jennika over who is the fifth turtle.

[@eerieeric834]

We need Kirby

[@untze0]

Shinobi is not a "magical" type of ninja. It is actually the proper name for a ninjutsu practitioner.

[@SirTyJensen]

Ninja Turtles 4 sounds crazy!

[@velociraptor4you3291]

As a paleo-fan, I _am_ mighty intrigued by the design of 'Raptorial Raphael.'

[@flyguy7825]

After how bad the third Ninja turtles movie was. I'm so glad the fourth movie never happened

[@wstine79]

I would've liked to see the Ninja Turtles aquire the Secondary Mutation instead of a Next Mutation.

[@tking24]

Glad this never happened

[@milkkchan7679]

I thot Michelangelo would’ve gotten more dumber to rival bill s. Preston esquire and Splinter would’ve turned into Snitch Nine because both are rats.

[@Captofthisship]

If we can get a groundeed Rated "R" Turtles from Nolan, that would be great. I need blood.

[@G-Thang26]

I'm glad they never green lit that movie cause that shit would've sucked....

[@Neufutur]

Man, I always forget that JoBlo isn't RedEyeReviews and I get so sad when I don't hear that dude's voice.

[@brandonspain12345]

A bit of a correction (and perhaps further information.) "The Next Mutation" script was just the original draft in 1994 written by Kazam writers (Christian Ford and Roger Soffer) auditioned for writing jobs as first-time writers. They were hired to write a totally new draft titled "The Foot Walks Again" in 1995. This draft would've had the turtles traveling into a dystopian dimension (not dissimilar to Back to the Future 2 or Super Mario '93.) A dimension they never exited in. This dark New York City featured an evil April O'Neil, "Kasey" Jones with electromagnetic hands, and the 5th turtle, Kirby. Kirby would've been a survivalist in this corrupted NYC, and was more hardcore than the other turtles. Now overrun and populated by advanced Foot Soldiers with high-tech guns, led by a leader named "Fang" as well as The Shredder, who would've been alive in this alternate reality and is maskless with long hair. This script would've taken elements of the City at War comic. The script featured many high-tech bionic gear that many of the villains carrying. Instead of The Elite, the main villain was a new character named "Spyder" who would've been this nano tech teal, blue and purple humanoid who absorbs many metal junk to become "Nano-Spyder" and one concept art online featured Kirby fighting him as the turtles are tying to return back to their home dimension, with Kirby sacrificing himself to save the brothers he never had in order to kill him.

[@keithharmonie]

The Studio heads are so dumb. Just make a new TMNT 4 with the Jim Henson Puppets. that the kids and adults would be into. It would be a Movie event!

[@imustbecrazy5626]

Kirby the mutant turtle? So terrible.

[@Dr_1212]

Turtle Power

[@jeremysiron9622]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles three happened….. killed that run of the franchise

[@thespicemelange.1]

Cracks in the armor? Come on now, we all know what you meant to say and it's not a derogatory comment or racist one. That word is the dictionary it means a break in the chains. Only ignorant people see that were as an insult.

[@EvanFowler]

Ooph, this sounds like it would have been horrible. TMNT would not have survived chasing X-Men storylines.

[@jamesbounds]

Also in the 80's cartoon in the last two seasons the turtle's mutation became unstable at one point.

[@markrogers6601]

I saw on KZbin video somewhere else that they gave them transformations to rival a little show called Power Rangers...

[@thespicemelange.1]

I remember being in the movie theater and every kid yelled cowabunga at the end.

[@Axolotl_Mischief]

A shinobi IS a ninja, but a male ninja. Nothing magical about it. A female ninja is kunoichi. They f*cked up lol

[@CaptainCat101]

I'm glad we got the animated TMNT instead. It wasn't great, but at least it didn't use animatronic costumes that got worse per movie.

[@vampirascoffin870]

Yeah but wish we had the live version more

[@WilliamHaisch]

I’m sorry but all I can hear is the voices by @itsreal85 😂

[@selfiekroos1777]

The annoying mothers groups destroyed the franchise in 91

[@jussikankinen9409]

So many trees cutted pizza boxes, build houses from boxes, millions homeless in land of the poor

[@wickdaline8668]

That fourth Turtles movie had to have been converted into the Next Mutation show.

[@jussikankinen9409]

15 billion earned and makers cried 3rd movie flopped

[@myztklk3v]

i really liked the 3rd movie, the second movie was terrible, just filled with ads and product placement and super campy acting and bad writing. my best friend said the second movie was his favourite and he didn't like the 3rd movie. I told him to re-watch and he would change his mind.

[@pablozambrano16]

both two and three are bad in differente ways...

[@JoBloOriginals]

Casey Jones rules!

[@myztklk3v]

@@pablozambrano16 nah, I think 3 was good

[@pablozambrano16]

@@myztklk3v i remember that I liked it a lot when I was a kid, but as an adult i found it pretty boring and a little bit cringey... at least 2 had great costumes and that hilarious vanilla ice scene... In any case, the first one is way better than the others. Like, it's really really good, and with the plus side of being pretty faithful to the comics

[@Redshirt434]

These mutations ended up in season 9 of the original cartoon.

[@jasongallagher5464]

We put people on the moon in ‘69. Why can’t we do this in 2023?

[@Mayor_Of_Eureka17]

This movie sounds like fever dream madness. Lol

[@dank2171]

1st 2 were great for dif reasons

[@toycamera6112]

Maybe this movie will be canonized in a Turtles multiversal project someday? Like what happened with the Nicolas Cage Superman in 'The Flash'.