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Seth Rogen says his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie is ‘deeply personal’-Rachael O'Connor-Entertainment – Metro
The film is set for release next year.
Seth Rogen says his upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie is ‘deeply personal’ (Picture: FilmMagic)
Seth Rogen feels a deep affinity with the pizza-eating turtles who live in the sewers, and says his new film will reflect this.
The Pineapple Express actor, 40, is working on a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) film, which is set to be released next year.
Seth and his team are working round the clock to to make the fully-animated film, titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, the best it can be, with the actor now explaining the movie feels ‘deeply personal.’
In an interview with The AV Club, the TMNT producer said: ‘We found a way to make it deeply personal.
‘It’s a teenage movie, we’re putting a lot of our own feelings — of awkwardness and insecurity and a desire to belong and be accepted and all that — into the movie.
‘And as I sit around with the other people working on [the film], I’m like, “We found a way to care about this,” which is great.’
The comedian and actor was a huge fan of the series growing up (Picture: Getty Images for Hilarity for Charity)
He went on to say TMNT is ‘something I loved as a kid,’ and revealed they are working on other childhood favourites, including a Darkwing Duck show.
‘That becomes a fun part of the challenge: How do you infuse more and more of yourself into your work? I think the more of yourself you put in, the more people like it.’
Seth first revealed that he would be working with Nickelodeon on a new TMNT movie with a tweet in June 2021.
Billboards advertising the film began cropping up this summer as excitement builds (Picture: Instagram/ Seth Rogen)
The post showed a page of notes and doodles supposedly written by the turtles’ leader, Leonardo, with the date August 11, 2023, in the corner.
Seth’s long-term collaborator Evan Goldberg is tied to the project, alongside James Weaver, and will be co-directed by Jeff Rowe, writer of Netflix film The Mitchells vs The Machines, and storyboard artist Kyler Spears.
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Details about the plot or cast have not yet been revealed.
However it has been confirmed to be aiming for release in August 2023.
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