Seth Rogen, writer and voice actor of TMNT: Mutant Mayhem, once used nunchucks to act out the Ninja Turtles and smashed his head open. Seth Rogen is a huge fan of the series, so much so that his father bought him some nunchucks that he had an unfortunate mishap with.
Rogen claimed in an interview with Empire Magazine that he had a lifelong obsession with turtles before he co-wrote Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. The film is produced by Seth Rogen alongside Evan Goldberg and James Weaver.
Seth Rogen and His Obsession with TMNT
Speaking to Empire, Seth Rogen claimed that his passion for the TMNT led him and co-writer Evan Goldberg to take up karate. Unfortunately for Rogen, his passion for TMNT and martial arts led to an injury.
“Part of the reason I did karate was because of the Ninja Turtles,” says Rogen. “Me and Evan both did karate together. My dad got me nunchucks that I cracked my head open with because I was obsessed with the Ninja Turtles, and Michelangelo specifically.”
For his part, Goldberg brought up the time that Rogen offered to show him an “awesome move” with the Nunchucks… but it didn’t go so well.
“Seth had just got these nunchucks. He was like, ‘Yo, check this out, I want to show you this awesome move,’ and just immediately shattered a huge chandelier from his parent’s house into a billion pieces. It took us, like, five hours to clean,” he said.
On a more serious note, Goldberg claimed that the TMNT series significantly influenced his and Rogen’s lives, adding that it’s difficult to gauge the impact but “it’s not a small amount.”
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem Won’t be Boring, Says Seth Rogen
Seth Rogen is assuring fans that there won’t be any “boring” scenes in the upcoming animated movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.
Speaking with Empire, Seth Rogen touched on what fans can expect out of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, which releases in August 2023.
“The film itself is permeated with this teenage energy – where you don’t stay in the lines, and you’re pushing harder on the stuff that you like, and you’re impressionably scribbling in the background,” Rogen said. “We started to write to the animation style. It needed to capture that – we can never have boring scenes, because the movie itself just seems to be crackling with energy.”
The official synopsis for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem reads,
“After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O’Neil helps them take on a notorious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.”
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, slated for release on August 2, 2023
Source: Cinema Blend
