Green certainly is his favorite color.
Seth Rogen’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot – in partnership with Nickelodeon – is set to hit theaters on August 11, 2023 as it will be the seventh film in the feature franchise based on the 1984 comic of the same name.
The 39-year-old actor took to Twitter to announce the release date for the highly-anticipated project along with a fun image to tease the feature film.
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Man with the plan: Seth Rogen’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot – in partnership with Nickelodeon – is set to hit theaters on August 11, 2023, as he is seen at the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards in Hollywood last month
Reboot: The movie will be the seventh film in the feature franchise based on the 1984 comic about four teen turtles named after Italian Renaissance painters, who thanks to an accidental swim in some mysterious ooze, were transformed into crime-fighting mutant superheros
Rogen posted a snap of a page of the science notebook of Leonardo who wears the blue eye mask and is the leader of the crime-fighting turtle group.
The image is full of several Easter eggs including a sketch of one of Leonardo’s katanas with the words ‘honor’ and ‘loyalty’ written around it.
As Leonardo and his brothers – Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael – were spawned by a lab experiment gone awry, one part of class the eldest of the group seemed to listen to was about mutation.
In the notebook mutation is defined by ‘changes in the genetic sequence, and they are a main cause of diversity in organisms.’
‘Who am I?’: Rogen posted a snap of a page of the science notebook of Leonardo who wears the blue eye mask and is the leader of the crime-fighting turtle group
Heroes in a half-shell: Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo live in the sewers, eating pizza and battling criminals under the guidance of their sensei Splinter – an anthropomorphic rat (Pictured: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret Of The Ooze, 1991)
Below that was a small chart detailing the types of mutation including deletion, duplication, and translocation with the note ‘*unintended mutations?’
The studio is betting on turtle power raking in big bucks in revenue, continuing the trend of the long running Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles feature film franchise which has grossed over a billion dollars in the last 30 years.
Based on the popular comic book characters created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, the four anthropomorphic teens last graced the silver screen in 2016 a revival of the 1990s films.
In 1984, Laird and Eastman published the first issue of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics as a parody of Marvel’s popular comics of the era.
Turtle power: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles got their first animated series in 1987 and a version of the cartoon has seen several iterations from then on
They created the four teen turtles named after Italian Renaissance painters, who thanks to a fortunate and accidental swim in some mysterious ooze, were transformed into walking, talking, crime-fighting mutant superheros.
Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo live in the sewers, eating pizza and battling criminals under the guidance of their sensei Splinter – an anthropomorphic rat.
Splinter is a master of ninjutsu, which he teaches to the boys. Their sidekick is red-headed human reporter April O’Neil.
In the comics and subsequent shows, films and games, the TMNT go up against their perpetual nemesis, Shredder, a ninjutsu and his ‘foot clan.’
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles got their first animated series in 1987 which continued on for nearly a decade, airing its last new episode in 1996.
Party dudes: The first of the feature films, titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, premiered in 1990, followed by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze in 1991, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III in 1993 – the four Turtles were played by actors in costumes with moving green animatronic heads created by Jim Henson studios (Henson pictured with the TMNT in 1990)
That series popularized the characters love for using surfer lingo like ‘cowabunga’, ‘dude’ and ‘bodacious.’
A short-lived live action series soon followed in 1997 but only lasted a year. And, starting in 2003, a second, third and fourth animated TMNT series aired.
The first of the feature films, titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, premiered in 1990, followed by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze in 1991, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III in 1993.
Revivals: The first CGI film, TMNT, was released in 2007. A later revival, the second one titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was produced by Michael Bay in 2014, followed by a 2016 sequel, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (Megan Fox pictured in 2014’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
In those iconic 90s flicks, the four Turtles were played by actors in costumes with moving green animatronic heads. These films got the reboot treatment several times in subsequent years.
The first CGI film, TMNT, was released in 2007. A later revival, the second one titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was produced by Michael Bay in 2014, followed by a 2016 sequel, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.
The last TMNT film released in the decades-long running franchise was 2019’s crossover, Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
No casting details have been released yet for the upcoming CG reboot.
Waiting: No casting details have been released yet for the upcoming CG reboot (Michelangelo pictured in 2016’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Out of the Shadows)