Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem: Read the script that brought the turtle power back to the big screen

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have been around since the 80s. They have starred in several animated series, live action films ranging from Jim Henson costumes to CGI turtles, and two animated films. The last, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Chaosrediscover the comic book heroes in different ways.

Maybe an example of that Spider-verse movies, Mutant chaos uses an animation style that is not a simple representation of his world. You can tell it’s New York and there are turtles and other mutants, but the animation combines styles like teenage sketchbooks to create a more vivid viewing experience.

The film remains dedicated to the origin of the turtles mutated by green slime, along with their father figure, the rat named Splinter. The experiments of scientist Baxter Stockman (voice of Giancarlo Esposito) led to the creation of some famous mutants such as Bebop (Seth Rogen) and Rocksteady (John Cena), as well as some new mutants such as Superfly (Ice Cube). The star-studded voice cast also includes Ayo Edebiri as April O’Neil, Paul Rudd, Hannibal Buress, Rose Byrne and Post Malone.

For the four teenage turtles – Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael – the directors Jeff Rowe and Kyler Spears, together with the producers Rogen and Evan Goldberg, the teenage actors Micah Abbey, Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon and Sharon Brown Jr. Check out their Differences between the script and the final film, as the filmmakers allowed the actors to improvise to capture the dynamics of real teenagers.

It included modern TikTok references that Rogen wasn’t even familiar with. “I don’t know who the Ocky guy is, but apparently the Ocky guy is hilarious,” Rogen said at a panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles. “Tell him you like bacon, egg and cheese and that’s it.”

Goldberg, who also wrote the script with Rogen, Rowe, Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit, said that these improvisations influenced the final animation. The turtles just want to be accepted by humans and follow the same social media as human teenagers.

“Some of the best jokes we don’t get,” Goldberg said. “One of our main theories was that it would be much better to record them all together because that’s how teenagers are. You don’t wait for people to finish their sentences. It had a domino effect. It affected the animation, how we designed it, how many people were in the frame.”

Click below to read the script.