Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2023 film)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an upcoming 2023 American animated-superhero film based on the fictional superhero team the of the same name. It is directed by Jeff Rowe, produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg through Point Grey Pictures. The film stars the voices of Ryan Reynolds, Michael B. Jordan, Bill Hader, T.J. Miller, Anna Kendrick, Jake Johnson, Nick Kroll, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Jamie Foxx, Awkwafina, Ian McShane, Ken Watanabe, and Jackie Chan. It is the tenth Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film in the franchise and the fifth animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film. It is scheduled to be released in the United States on August 4, 2023, by Paramount Pictures. It received positive reviews, with praise given to the animation and voice acting.

The film's success led to two sequels, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 (2029) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Into the Turtle-Verse (2035).

Synopsis
The film follows the four turtle brothers, Leonardo (Reynolds), Raphael (Jordan), Donatello (Hader), and Michelangelo (Miller) who are trained in the art of their adoptive rat sensei, Splinter (Chan), team up with local news reporter April O'Neil (Kendrick) who happens to be their long lost pet owner and hockey mask wearing vigilante Casey Jones (Johnson) to stop their archenemy, The Shredder (Watanabe) and his army of foot soldiers/mutants from taking over New York City.

Voice cast

 * Ryan Reynolds as Leonardo, the leader of the Turtles.
 * Indiana Arnold as Young Leonardo
 * Michael B. Jordan as Raphael, the hotheaded member of the Turtles.
 * DJ Panton as Young Raphael
 * Bill Hader as Donatello, the scientist of the Turtles.
 * Roger Dale Floyd as Young Donatello
 * T.J. Miller as Michelangelo, the light-hearted and carefree member of the Turtles.
 * Baste Granfon as Young Michelangelo
 * Jackie Chan as Hamato Yoshi/Splinter, a mutant rat who is the adoptive father and sensei of the Ninja Turtles. Previously, he was once a human and former student of the Foot Clan.
 * Anna Kendrick as April O'Neil, a reporter for Channel 6 News and friend/long-lost pet owner of the Turtles.
 * Quinn Copeland as Young April
 * Jake Johnson as Casey Jones, a streetwise vigilante and former ice hockey player who becomes an ally of the turtles and love interest of April.
 * Ethan Thomas Jung as Young Casey
 * Ken Watanabe as Oroku Saki/The Shredder, leader of the Foot Clan and main antagonist of the film.
 * Nick Kroll as Krang, an evil Utrom from Dimension X equipped with a robotic prototype body disguised as a human named Dr. Kirby Rang and the secondary antagonist of the film.
 * Keegan-Michael Key as Rocksteady, a criminal partner of Bebop who was genetically mutated into an anthropomorphic rhinoceros.
 * Jordan Peele as Bebop, a criminal partner of Rocksteady who was genetically mutated into an anthropomorphic warthog.
 * Jamie Foxx is Dr. Baxter Stockman, a mad scientist and creator of the mousers who allies with Shredder and later gets genetically mutated into a fly.
 * Awkwafina as Karai, Shredder's adoptive daughter and second in-command.
 * Ian McShane as Hattori Tatsu, Shredder's right hand man and most loyal enforcer in the Foot Clan.
 * Benedict Cumberbatch as Agent John Bishop, leader of the Earth Protection Government, who allies himself with the Shredder to eliminate all mutants, but later becomes an ally of the turtles.
 * John Cena as Hun, leader of the Purple Dragons.
 * Paul Rudd as Vernon Fenwick, April's co-worker and cameraman.
 * Abbi Jacobson as Irma Langenstein, April's best friend and roommate.
 * Seth Rogen as Burne Thompson, April's stubborn and irascible boss at Channel 6 News.
 * Lucy Liu as Tang Shen, Hamato Yoshi's beloved fiancée who was murdered by Oroku Saki for rejecting him.

Cameos during the film's post-credits include: Cam Clarke as 1987 Leonardo, Rob Paulsen as 1987 Raphael, Barry Gordon as 1987 Donatello, and Townsend Coleman as 1987 Michelangelo.

Soundtrack
Michael Giacchino would compose the score for the film. The score includes the theme from the 1987 animated series. The soundtrack was released by Sony Masterworks on August 4, 2023.No. Title.......................................................................Music


 * 1) "Theme (From "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles") [Original Television Series]"....................................Michael Giacchino
 * 2) "Go Green Machine!"....................................Black Caviar, Blackway
 * 3) "Beat It"....................................Michael Jackson
 * 4) "Someone Like Me"....................................Tessyo Genda
 * 5) "This Is What We Do"....................................MC Hammer
 * 6) "Happy Together"....................................The Turtles
 * 7) "The Goofy Goober Song"....................................Mike Simpson
 * 8) "Kung Fu Fighting"....................................Carl Douglas, Bus Stop
 * 9) "A Little Less Conversation"....................................Elvis Presley, JXL
 * 10) "Trouble"....................................Shampoo
 * 11) "Love You In the Fall"....................................Paul Westerberg
 * 12) "Barracuda"....................................Heart
 * 13) "Welcome to the Jungle"....................................Guns N' Roses
 * 14) "Big in Japan"....................................Alphaville
 * 15) "Woo Hood"....................................The 5.6.7.8's
 * 16) "Battle Without Honor Or Humanity"....................................Tomoyasu Hotei

Production
On June 20, 2018, it was reported that Paramount Pictures will once again reboot the series with Bay, Fuller and Form returning to produce the film and Andrew Dodge writing the script. Fuller and Form announced while at the 24th Critics' Choice Awards that production on the reboot is set to start in 2019. However, in July 2019, TMNT co-creator revealed that the film is still in development and believed that Paramount took the reactions to the 2014 and 2016 films "to heart", and that "its going to be a next-level type of stuff".

On June 30, 2020, it was reported that the reboot will be a CG animated film with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg producing through their Point Grey Pictures production company. It will be the second animated film in the franchise following 2007's TMNT. The film will be directed by The Mitchells vs. the Machines co-director Jeff Rowe with a script by Neighbors co-screenwriter Brendan O'Brien. Nickelodeon president Brian Robbins has described the project as a "next-level reinvention of the property".

Trivia

 * This will be the third theatrical Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film to be made by Nickelodeon.
 * It is the second theatrical animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film. The first being TMNT.
 * This will also be the fifth animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film. The first four were TMNT, Turtles Forever, Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie.
 * It will also be the first animated TMNT film produced in-house by Paramount sinceTurtles Forever, a TV movie, premiered on The CW, which is a joint venture of ViacomCBS. (It also premiered on Nickelodeon Movies at the same time.)
 * This is the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film where Splinter is Hamato Yoshi.
 * The film and origin story uses elements from both the Mirage Comics and 1987 cartoon.
 * Originally, the restaurant where the Turtles escape, the Yellow Dog, was originally going to be blown up by one of the Purple Dragon gang. However, due to the January 3 attacks and that the scene is too dark and traumatizing for kids, it was changed to have the restaurant be decontaminated.
 * While the Turtles are lost at sea, a large shark comes up out of the water in the fashion of the classic Jaws book cover and movie poster.