Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and longtime collaborator Atticus Ross are reportedly set to bring their scoring talents to the upcoming animated feature “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” opening in August.
The news was revealed by, of all people, professional skateboarding icon Tony Hawk. Hawk recently visited Reznor to shoot a cameo for NIN’s “Wish” music video.
Talking about the experience on his podcast Hawk vs. Wolf, Hawk then revealed Reznor & Ross were working on the new animated film\ and says: “When I went there, they were working on the soundtrack to that movie that [co-writer, producer] Seth [Rogen] told us about.”
Once that reveal happened, the film’s co-director Jeff Rowe came forward on Twitter and confirmed it, saying:
“Well, now that my teenage hero @tonyhawk has leaked that my music heroes are doing this I can add that the score is absolutely AMAZING. Exhilarating, terrifying, heartbreaking, and full of sounds I didn’t know existed. I don’t have the vocabulary to describe it. I love it so much.”
The Oscar-winning duo are behind David Fincher’s films since “The Social Network,” including this year’s upcoming Fincher film “The Killer” on Netflix. The pair have also steadily worked on multiple scores since 2010, including films like “The Book of Eli,” “Love and Mercy,” “Blackhat,” “Triple 9,” “Patriots Day,” “Death Note,” “Bird Box,” “Soul,” “Bones and All” and “Empire of Light” along with shows like “Watchmen,” “Black Mirror” and “Dr. Death”.
This new take on the turtles sees the quartet acting like genuine teenagers – helped along by a voice cast of actual teenagers, including Micah Abbey (Donatello), Shamon Brown Jr. (Michelangelo), Nicolas Cantu (Leonardo) and Brady Noon (Raphael).
Nickelodeon’s first theatrical CG-animated movie also stars Jackie Chan as the voice of wise rat mentor Splinter, Ayo Edebiri as April O’Neil, Seth Rogen as Bebop, John Cena as Rocksteady, Giancarlo Esposito as Baxter Stockman, Paul Rudd as Mondo Gecko, Ice Cube as Superfly, Rose Byrne as Leatherhead, Hannibal Buress as Genghis Frog, Natasia Demetriou as Wingnut, Post Malone as Ray Fillet and Maya Rudolph as Cynthia Utrom.
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” opens in cinemas on August 2nd.
Source: Slashfilm
