Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg & Jeff Rowe Braved TikTok To Create Authentic Teenagers For ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’ – Contenders Film L.A.
deadline.comTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem writers Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Jeff Rowe said it was important that their turtles spoke like real teenagers.
That meant brushing up on the latest crazes, like TikTok. “We’re trying to make these ninja turtles sound like you and talk like you and reference the same TikTok videos that you watch that I’ve never seen that I don’t understand at all,” Rogen said. “I don’t know who the Ocky guy is but apparently the Ocky guy is hilarious.
Tell him you love bacon egg and cheese and that’s a whole thing.” Though the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics have been adapted as a weekday afternoon TV show, live-action movies in the ‘90s and 2010s, and a 2007 animated movie, Mutant Mayhem is the first incarnation to cast teenagers.
The production recorded Micah Abbey, Sharon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu and Brady Noon simultaneously and allowed them to improvise. “Some of the best jokes, we don’t understand,” Goldberg said. “One of our main theories was that to record all of them together would make it way better because that’s how teens are.
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