The Nickelodeon and Seth Rogen-produced computer-animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie reboot set a release date.Rogen tweeted out a pretend set of chemistry notes taken by Leonardo in the film, in the process revealing the movie will hit theaters Aug. 11, 2023. "Leo takes notes like I used to," Rogen added.
Announced in June 2020, the CG Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film reboot will be helmed by The Mitchells vs. The Machines co-director Jeff Rowe from a screenplay by Neighbors franchise co-writer Brendan O'Brien. Rogen will co-produce the movie with his Point Grey Pictures partners Evan Goldberg, James Weaver and Josh Fagen, along with Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon EVP of Animation Production and Development Ramsey Naito.
Created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird in the mid-1980s, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic books center on Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael, four anthropomorphized turtles trained in the martial arts by their master and adopted father, a rat named Splinter. The characters first made the jump to the big screen with the 1990 live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, a box office hit that was followed by a pair of less-successful sequels released in 1991 and 1993. After that, the franchise was put on ice until 2007's TMNT, a computer-animated film that was only loosely connected to the live-action '90s trilogy.
Plans to expand the TMNT movie into a trilogy were abandoned in 2009, after Nickelodeon acquired the franchise. A live-action reboot film was later released in 2014, with Michael Bay producing and the Turtles being portrayed through CGI and motion-capture (as opposed to the animatronic costumes used for the '90s trilogy). Titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the reboot overcame negative reviews to gross $493.3 million at the box office. However, its 2016 sequel, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, failed to make even half as much, despite receiving a better reception from critics.
Nickelodeon and Netflix are separately producing a feature film based on the Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series. The show debuted in 2018 and gave the Turtles new mystical powers, in addition to featuring a different visual style than previous TMNT cartoon shows.
Directed by Jeff Rowe from a script by Brendan O'Brian, the yet-to-be-titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie will open in theaters Aug. 11, 2023.
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