In 2020, Seth Rogen’s production company Point Grey Pictures announced they were working on a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. It’s getting closer. A year ago a release date of August 21, 2023 was announced, and today that date was moved up to August 4, 2023. They also revealed what the title of the thing will be:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is in theaters one year from today!!!!! pic.twitter.com/bm1jVyawa6
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) August 4, 2022
Say hello to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. It’s now a year away, and we still don’t know much about it beyond this new image. What we can tell you is that it’s a CG-animated film and that Rogen has hinted at it emphasizing the “teenage” side of the characters. “I think one thing we’ve been pretty consistently good at over the years is creating material about teenagers, from Blockers, Good Boys, and Superbad,” he’s quoted as saying. “That was really what became exciting for us is how do we make a great action-adventure movie that’s also a great teenage movie.”
In other words, be prepared for a take on the TMNT you probably haven’t seen before. We can’t promise it will be good or not. But here’s to wishing.
The Ninja Turtles have been on the big screen at least six times in the last thirty-one years, beginning with the original Jim Henson movie released in the spring of 1990. Two more followed in that style with diminishing returns…then there was silence for a while until the first all-CGI Turtles movie, simply called “TMNT,” was released in 2007. After that, Michael Bay got his ‘Murican motor-oil-smelling mitts on the property and laid a couple of testosterone-charged rotten eggs in theaters — even if Rogen’s TMNT is bad, it can’t be worse than Bay’s.
So far, the best Turtles movie is either the 1990 original or TMNT, depending on who you ask. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem will hit the big screen one year from now, but there’s instant Turtley gratification this very day in the form of Nickelodeon’s Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie, now on Netflix.
