Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem | Official Behind the Scenes - Seth Rogen, Ice Cube
Get a behind-the-scenes look at Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, including the story behind the original creation of the characters and how it inspired the new animated movie. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem stars Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Hannibal Buress, Rose Byrne, Nicolas Cantu, John Cena, Jackie Chan, Ice Cube, Natasia Demetriou, Ayo Edebiri, Giancarlo Esposito, Post Malone, Brady Noon, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, and Maya Rudolph.
After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O’Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.
The film's screenplay is by Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg & Jeff Rowe and Dan Hernandez & Benji Samit. The story is by Brendan O'Brien and Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg & Jeff Rowe. It is produced by Seth Rogen, p.g.a., Evan Goldberg, p.g.a., and James Weaver, p.g.a., and executive producers are Ramsay McBean and Josh Fagen.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, directed by Jeff Rowe and co-directed by Kyler Spears, opens in UK cinemas today, July 31, and in US theaters on August 2, 2023.
After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O’Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.
The film's screenplay is by Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg & Jeff Rowe and Dan Hernandez & Benji Samit. The story is by Brendan O'Brien and Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg & Jeff Rowe. It is produced by Seth Rogen, p.g.a., Evan Goldberg, p.g.a., and James Weaver, p.g.a., and executive producers are Ramsay McBean and Josh Fagen.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, directed by Jeff Rowe and co-directed by Kyler Spears, opens in UK cinemas today, July 31, and in US theaters on August 2, 2023.
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00:00 The original creation of the turtles came out of love, passion, and a late night out
00:07 of goofiness.
00:08 I did this drawing of a turtle standing upright with a mask on, nunchucks strapped to his
00:13 arms, and I put it on a piece of desk and I said, "This is going to be the next big
00:16 thing in Ninja Turtle."
00:21 The animated series came out in 1987 when I was five years old.
00:25 The live action movie came out in 1990.
00:28 I was eight.
00:29 It was like perfectly geared towards someone my age.
00:32 Ninja Turtles is something that all of us have been obsessed with ever since we were
00:35 kids.
00:36 I remember being four years old and wanting all of the toys.
00:39 Action figures, cartoons, the bed sheets.
00:42 I was just kind of obsessed with them.
00:43 I started taking karate probably because of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
00:47 How much love was put into their designs and the props.
00:51 My dad bought me nunchucks because of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
00:54 Package art and everything about it was funny and weird and told a story.
01:00 They called us and said, "Would you guys ever be interested in working on the Teenage
01:04 Mutant Ninja Turtles?"
01:05 Did we play it cool at all?
01:07 No.
01:08 No.
01:09 If we can approach it through this teenage lens, really lean into a coming of age version
01:14 of it.
01:15 And they said yes.
01:16 Jeff was willing to say, "We have to make this look and feel totally different."
01:22 He's like, "What if it's animated by teenagers, so to speak?"
01:25 We put so much work into the visuals, into the artwork.
01:29 The style is perfect for this.
01:31 It's almost like an underground comic.
01:33 It reminds me a lot of the original stuff that Peter and I did.
01:37 It's you and your buddies.
01:39 It's you and your brothers.
01:40 It's you and your sister and your brother.
01:41 I think a lot of people can relate to kind of feeling like an outsider at times.
01:46 This desire to fit in, to be accepted.
01:50 It's one of the most essential emotions.
01:53 The fans are insanely awesome.
01:56 Whether it be, "I love the turtles so much, I wore the same Halloween costume for three
02:00 years in a row," or, "I had a really tough childhood and the turtles helped me get through
02:04 that."
02:05 And that's when it hits you emotionally.
02:08 Wanting to create, wanting to tell your own stories, and then actually having it happen.
02:12 It's a dream and it happened.
02:14 I love the Ninja Turtles.
02:15 It was like the first thing I was ever a fan of.
02:19 It's fun and exciting.
02:22 Here I am 61 years old and I'm still getting up and drawing comics.
02:25 Turtles every day.
02:27 [music]
02:31 (explosion)
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