• Seth Rogen says his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie is “deeply personal”.
• The film will be computer-generated and animated in the manner of the television series.
• It will focus on the “teenage” aspect of the iconic TMNT characters.

Seth Rogen claims his TMNT movie won’t be a standard action flick.

The Golden Globe candidate, 40, cited Superbad, This Is The End, and his upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot as flicks that demonstrate a deeper side to him than viewers may believe.

“We found a way to make it deeply personal,” he said. “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.

Rogen launched the title, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, in August after it was originally revealed that he would produce the movie in 2020. He also included the release date on a wall mural. Variety reports that the film will be computer-generated animated in the manner of the television series.

He previously told Collider in 2020 that the new movie would focus on the “teenage” aspect of the iconic TMNT characters Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo.

“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,” Rogen said, adding: “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.”

Rogen has experience handling sensitive material. Working on his most recent movie, The Fabelmans, was particularly emotional for him, especially for director Steven Spielberg, he

“It’s very directly based on his life and pretty much everything that happens in the movie is something that happened to him,” Rogen said. “As we were shooting, I’d be like, ‘Did this happen in real life?’ and the answer was ‘yes’ a hundred percent of the time.”

The Canadian actor said working with such a well-known and accomplished director as a humble experience. For someone like [Spielberg] to even be aware of my existence, let alone believe I might contribute to or help their picture, was really nice and validating, according to Rogen.

The launch of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is set for August 4, 2023.

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