The 1990 live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles hits theaters again this week for a 30th-anniversary re-release, and fans of the original movie and animated series are pumped. Sure, it may not be a good movie, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a great movie.

It’s led fans to wonder: Will we ever get a sequel to the 1990 movie? Or a proper reboot? It’s true we got a 2014 live-action TMNT movie that did fine enough at the box office to get a sequel, and a 2016 sequel that flopped. But they were unaffiliated with the original creative team or with Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, likely why make much of a cultural impact and the design of the Turtles and Splinter bordered on creepy. And that was even with the Turtles’ look was completely revamped after focus groups of kids were freaked out by the original design, which was pure nightmare fuel.

But those of us who grew up with the cartoons and movies of the ’90s remember a kinder, gentler version of the Turtles and would love to see it again. If OG movie producer Kim Dawson and writer Bobby Herbeck have their way, we will.

Speaking to ComicBook.com, Herbeck said it’s definitely been discussed. However, unlike a sequel after decades, like Bill & Ted Face the Music or Halloween, they want to do a straight reboot of the franchise. “Yes. The answer is yes,” said an enthusiastic Herbeck. “We’re trying to make that happen. We want to do a reboot. We got our fans coming to us on Instagram, they’re all, ‘Why don’t you guys do a reboot of the first movie?’ We’d love to do it.”

And one of the big reasons they want to do it is exactly why the previous live-action movie didn’t work: Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. Along with talking to original director Steve Barron, Herbeck has been in conversations with Brian Henson, who took over the Creature Shop after his legendary dad passed away the same year as TMNT‘s release. Considering the groundbreaking work Jim Henson did on the original animatronic Turtle costumes, Herbeck thinks they could do something even more stunning with the advancements they’ve made in technology the last three decades:

“The truth is, this property, it’s established now after 30 years as a part of our modern pop culture, it’s not going away. It’s only going to continue to grow. I do wish that we could go back. I mean, we’ve talked to Steve Barron about this, and Brian Henson, and if there were an opportunity, if one of the studios saw fit, I think we could go back and reboot it like it was… Imagine if Brian Henson had access to the technology he does today to make these costumes and all that. I think it would be amazing. A reboot like that I think would really get people’s juices flowing.”

He’s not wrong. There’s still an appetite for the franchise and nostalgia is always big. Plus, it’s not as though the cartoons haven’t continued. Nickelodeon has been pumping out various animated iterations for the past few years to hook an entirely new generation of viewers.

In the meantime, you can catch the 30th anniversary re-release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when it hits theaters this week.

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