Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are with us again and this time in yet another animated version. Created by cartoonists Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird in 1984, these little turtles transformed into anthropomorphic creatures thanks to radioactive waste have been the focus of several incarnations on the screen, starting with the first animated series in the late 1980s and then the live-action trilogy in the the nineties. Several projects followed, most recently two films produced by Michael Bay and a new animated film (titled only TMNT , an acronym for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) in 2017. But now they will return to the big screen with a completely different story and an animated work that closely recalls successful titles such as Spider-Man: A New Universe .As can be seen in the teaser trailer released in these hours, the new Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raffaello and Donatello are teenagers like many, all jokes and videos on the smartphone, except that they have been trained by a giant mouse, Master Splinter, to become infallible ninja warriors. Nevertheless, they too combine various troubles and at the same time they have to deal with criminal threats of various kinds. To make the whole story even more absurd is certainly the involvement of Seth Rogen (Suxbad, Let's end it, The Fabelsman) who here defines himself as an "eternal teenager" and who appears here in the role of producer, while Jeff Rowe is director (formerly co-writer and co-director of the acclaimed The Mitchells Against the Machines ) and the screenwriter is signed by Brendan O'Brien ( Bad Neighbors ).
To make Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles even more special - this is the title of the new reboot - there is a not indifferent cast of original voice actors: in addition to the young protagonists Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu and Brady Noon who respectively voice Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael, there are big names like Jackie Chan as Splinter, John Cena who voices Rocksteady (while Rogen himself appears as Bebop), Ice Cube as Superfly , Giancarlo Esposito to the mad scientist Baxter Stockman, Paul Rudd to Mondo Gecko, while Ayo Edebiri , revelation in the already cult series The Bear , will be the new April O'Neil , journalist allied with the turtles. To see all this in action, we will have to wait for next August when the film arrives in theaters.