Every Canceled TMNT Movie (& Why They Didn't Happen)

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Here's why every canceled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie never happened. The titular martial arts-practicing reptiles debuted on the pages of their own comic book back in 1984, but it wasn't until the 1987 debut of their cartoon series that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles became a true cultural phenomenon. The pizza-loving quartet of Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael have proven to have more staying power than many other 1980s inventions, successfully managing to produce new TV shows, movies, and video games all the way until the current decade.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles first graced the silver screen in 1990, starring in a live-action adventure that became an absolute smash hit, raking in over $200 million on a budget of $13.5 million. Two live-action sequels followed in 1991 and 1993, which each did worse than the last, but it didn't come close to killing the franchise. More recently, Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes produced two more live-action movies in 2014 and 2016, with three animated movies also being released since 2007, and two more in the works.

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While all of the above projects did indeed get made since the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' 1980s heyday, there have also been no less than five planned movies that ended up either stuck in development hell, or canceled outright. Three of these unmade TMNT movies were live-action projects, while two were animated. Here's a look at all of them, and why they didn't happen.

Between 1995 and 1997, two concepts were floating around for a possible Teenage Mutant Turtles 4, a sequel to 1993's time-traveling Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3. Little is known about the first, titled