Seth Rogen Reveals Key Details on Upcoming TMNT Movie
Honestly, I was completely unaware that Seth Rogen was producing a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Michael Bay recently tried to rejuvenate the franchise and failed miserably. Teenage Mutant Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows made decent numbers at the box office but the money wasn’t good enough and the critical responses to both movies were not good.
With that attempt at a franchise failed, Rogen is taking another stab at the iconic characters. Though he’s typically known for his brand of stoner comedy, he has shown the ability to switch things up a bit. He was a writer for the TV show Preacher and a producer for The Boys – both of which are critically acclaimed.
If Rogen wants to take a stab at TMNT, he might as well. He certainly can’t do worse than some of the recent movies. The project is starting to become a reality as Rogen announced on Tuesday that the film will be coming out on August 11, 2023.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles… Aug 11 2023 (Leo takes notes like I used to)
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) June 1, 2021
2023 is still a long time away but it’s a promising sign that they have a release date set. Rogen may end up being the perfect man for the job as he revealed previously that he’s a big fan of the franchsie.
“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, 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,” Rogen told Collider last year. “I mean, not disregarding the rest, but really using that as a kind of jumping off point for the film.”
It may end up sucking like most of the other TMNT movies but at least he’s attempting to make a movie while having a lot of knowledge about what makes the characters great.
