

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. He stated: "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. In an August 2020 interview with Collider, Rogen said that the film would heavily lean into the teenage element of Turtles. Naito and Josh Fagen were overseeing production for Nickelodeon and Point Grey, respectively. Rowe was announced as director, with Brendan O'Brien writing the screenplay, and Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and James Weaver producing through their production company, Point Grey Pictures. The film marks Nickelodeon Animation's first CG-animated theatrical production. In June 2020, Deadline Hollywood reported that Nickelodeon Animation Studio was developing a computer-animated Turtles film for Paramount Pictures. Seth Rogen was decided upon, and Jeff Rowe joined the project soon after both were big Turtles fans. Production Development įollowing Ramsey Naito's appointment at Nickelodeon in 2018, she and Brian Robbins discussed who to bring onto the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. The character Scumbug, a mutant insect, appears in the film where he is credited under "himself".


Nickelodeon announced Mutant Mayhem in June 2020, with Rogen, Goldberg, and James Weaver producing under their Point Grey Pictures banner, and Rowe as director. The brothers go on a hunt for a mysterious crime syndicate, but trouble arises when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them. In the film, after years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtles set out to be accepted as normal teenagers through acts of heroism. The supporting ensemble voice cast includes Hannibal Buress, Rose Byrne, John Cena, Jackie Chan, Ice Cube, Natasia Demetriou, Ayo Edebiri, Giancarlo Esposito, Post Malone, Rogen, Paul Rudd, and Maya Rudolph. It is the seventh theatrical Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film and stars the voices of Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, and Brady Noon as the titular team. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is a 2023 American computer-animated superhero film directed by Jeff Rowe (in his feature directorial debut), co-directed by Kyler Spears, and written by Rowe, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Dan Hernandez, and Benji Samit.
