The “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” franchise keeps soldiering on decades after its inception, and the same goes for the film adaptations. We had the original live-action trilogy, a 2007 CG animated feature and then more recently two live-action/CG hybrid films produced by Michael Bay.
Four years after “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows” disappointed at the box-office came the news that Nickelodeon and Point Grey Pictures are spearheading a completely CG animated reboot of the property – one overseen by “The Boys” and “Preacher” executive producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.
Speaking with Collider to promote his new HBO Max film “American Pickle,” Rogen was asked how the new film will stand apart from the ones that came before. He says by embracing an aspect not seen much since the original animated series – their mental age:
“As a lifelong fan of Ninja Turtles, weirdly the ‘Teenage’ part of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was always the part that stuck out to me the most. And as someone who loves teenage movies, and who’s made a lot of teenage movies, and who literally got their start in their entire profession by writing a teenage movie, the idea of kind of honing in on that element was really exciting to us. I mean, not disregarding the rest, but really using that as kind of a jumping off point for the film.”
Jeff Rowe, who helms the upcoming Lord and Miller-produced animated film “Connected” for Sony, will helm from a script by Brendan O’Brien (“Bad Neighbors”) with Paramount Pictures to distribute the film.
