Paramount Pictures has released a new featurette for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Chaoswhich offers a fun behind-the-scenes look at the teenage cast that brings the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to life in the film.
For the first time in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, the four main heroes are actually played by teenagers. This is the first time we’ll actually have Teenage Ninja Turtles!
In the video maker Seth Rogen he explains that “the teenage side” of these characters “is the most unexplored side”. So they’ve set you up to tell a different kind of story for these characters in a unique way that we’ve never seen before, and that excites me!
The video includes interviews with the cast and crew as they talk about their characters and share more information about them. It also features some radical new footage from the film!
President of Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Animation Ramsey Naito previously talked about how producers Rogen and Jeff Row wanted to put a heavy emphasis on the “teenager” side of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, saying:
“[Seth and Jeff] I really wanted to tell a story that embraced the teenage side – and to our surprise there hadn’t been any story told about the teenage side that was weird. Jeff in particular gravitated towards teenage doodles, the high school doodles that kids start making in their notebooks… Those doodles are infused, inspired and embraced by budding hormones and dreams of empowerment and a desire to be accepted.
“All of those things combined really inspired the look of the film that’s so tactile, and it also ended up imbued with the spirit of New York: the smells of the subway, the grit, the grime, the energy. It has so much energy from an aesthetic point of view. The development came from the teenage part of TMNT which was really organic. And because of the coming-of-age part, Seth being the comedic genius that he is through these unique characters brought voice and comedy and heart.
In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Chaos, after years sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as ordinary teenagers through heroic deeds. Their new friend April O’Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in the way when an army of mutants is unleashed against them.
When previously talking about the tone of the film, the director Jeff Row revealed the vibe they were going for: “We wanted it to be like Stand by Me AND Lady Bird. But, you know, with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
The voice cast of the film includes Micah Abbey like Donatello, Shamon Brown Jr. like michelangelo, Nicola Cantu like Leonardo, Brady Noon like Raphael, Jackie Chan like Splinter, John Cena as Rocksteady, Seth Rogen like be-bop, Ice cube like Superfly, Rosa Byrne as Leatherhead, Natasia Demetrius like Wingnut, Ayo Edebiri as April O’Neil, Giancarlo Esposito as Baxter Stockman, Post Malone as Ray Fillet, Paul Rudd such as Mondo Gecko, e Maya Rodolfo as Cynthia Utrom.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Chaos hits theaters August 2.
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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