One of summer’s most eagerly awaited animated theatrical launches, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, is heating up fan excitement with a spate of brand-new character posters and “Meet the Cast” featurette from Paramount Pictures/Nickelodeon Movies. The new CG-animated action-adventure from Seth Rogen’s Point Grey Pictures unleashes its gene spliced action on the big screen August 2.
"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 set of 16 character spotlight one-sheet posters features the other mutants lurking in N.Y.C.’S nooks and crannies: Hannibal Buress as Genghis Frog, Rose Byrne as Leatherhead, John Cena as Rocksteady, Jackie Chan as Master Splinter, Ice Cube as Superfly, Natasia Demetriou as Wingnut, Post Malone as Ray Fillet, Seth Rogen as Bebop and Paul Rudd as Mondo Gecko.
These fantastical denizens are accompanied by Ayo Edebiri as April O’Neil, Giancarlo Esposito as Baxter Stockman and Maya Rudolph as Cynthia Utrom.
And, of course, our plucky teen testudines: Micah Abbey as Donatello, Shamon Brown Jr. as Michelangelo, Nicolas Cantu as Leonardo and Brady Noon as Raphael.
Scumbug will voice himself.
The featurette video includes voice star/executive producer Rogen introducing the voices of Raph, Donnie, Leo and Mikey, as well as director Jeff Rowe (The Mitchells vs. the Machines), Chan, Edebiri and the whole gang. (Watch it below!)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is co-directed by Kyler Spears from a screenplay by Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg & Jeff Rowe and Dan Hernandez & Benji Samit, story by Brendan O’Brien and Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg & Jeff Row, based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters created by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman. The film is produced by Seth Rogen, p.g.a., Evan Goldberg, p.g.a., James Weaver, p.g.a. Executive producers are Ramsay McBean and Josh Fagen.
Rowe said the classic toys were a big reason why they appear in the film. “We included them just because they're cool, just because we like them. So much of my connection to the Ninja Turtles was the original toy line, and I remember the back of toy packages having 20 different mutants on it, and each design was so inventive and creative and told a little story about the character that when we were designing characters for the movie, we're like, ‘Well, let's see what this character looks like. Let's try this.’ And then we started writing them into the movie just because they looked cool.”
Speaking of looking cool, Mutant Mayhem’s animation style is distinct from past incarnations of TMNT as well as from the signature styles of Disney-Pixar and DreamWorks Animation. Rowe credits the critical and commercial success of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse for convincing Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies to let them try a new approach to visualizing the Ninja Turtles and their world.
“It incentivized studios to take risks that being visually different and unique is a benefit critically and financially, and it really opened a lot of doors for other films,” Rowe said.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem leaps into theaters August 2!
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