The first teaser trailer for a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot has been released.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem sees an impressive cast come together for the latest adventures of Splinter and his four adoptive sons Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael.
Check out the trailer here:
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Seth Rogen is a producer on the new movie - as well as voicing Bebop - while Jackie Chan plays Splinter. The cast also features the likes of Paul Rudd, John Cena, Post Malone and Ice Cube.
The synopsis reads: "In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, 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 mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them."
The film is scheduled for release on 4 August 2023, and Rogen said the project is 'deeply personal' for him as he 'loved' the franchise growing up.
In an interview with AV Club last November, he explained: "It's funny, I'm making this Ninja Turtles movie right now. And like, we found a way to make it deeply personal.
"It's a teenage movie, we're putting a lot of our own feelings - of awkwardness and insecurity and a desire to belong and be accepted and all that - into the movie. And it makes it fun.
"And as I sit around with the other people working on it, I'm like, 'We found a way to care about this,' which is great."
The 40-year-old will be hoping the film goes down well with critics, having recently opened up about the impact bad press can have.
In a new episode of The Diary of a CEO podcast, he explained: "I think all creative people and people who have creative pursuits in their life have self-doubt.
"For me, it comes in waves. You make a thing everyone likes, it gets a little better; you make a thing everyone f**king hates, it gets a little worse. And that’s a part of doing what I do."
The actor said bad press around an opening weekend or whenever he has a 'thing coming out' can really 'suck'.
He continued: "I think if most critics knew how much it hurt the people that made the things that they are writing about, they would second guess the way they write these things.
"Like, it's devastating. I know people who never recover from it, honestly – years, decades of being hurt.
"Because it's very personal, you know? And so it is devastating when you are being institutionally told that your personal expression was bad.
"That is devastating and something that people carry with them literally their entire lives. And I get why, it f**king sucks!"
Topics: Film and TV, Seth Rogen
Jake Massey