Seth Rogen: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will be 'deeply personal' and use his own teen angst

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14 Nov 2022, 16:42

Don't expect a run-of-the-mill action movie from producer Seth Rogen's new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film — things are going a lot deeper.

The Superbad and Sausage Party star confirmed that the writers are delving deep and pulling from their own personal teenage archives to make an emotional, heartstring-pulling CG-animation.

In an interview with the A.V. Club, he explained about the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot: "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," Rogen continued.

He previously told Collider about the strong focus on the teenage aspect of Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo in 2020 and explained: "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.

"The idea of kind of honing in on that element was really exciting to us. I mean, not disregarding the rest, but really using that as kind of a jumping off point for the film."

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is set to land on August 4, 2023.