Netflixmay have followers in every single place shouting “cowabunga!” as the primary season of Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will transfer from Paramount+ to the streaming platform on January 1. The 12-episode sequence — first launched on August 9 — picks up within the aftermath of final 12 months’s animated film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, which was primarily based on a screenplay co-written by Seth Rogen.
In Mutant Mayhem, the turtles kick off their New York Metropolis adventures alongside human April O’Neil (Ayo Edebiri). The sequence continues on from the film and facilities on the turtles’ encounters with villains new and acquainted, in addition to the trials and travails of life in highschool. All of which is able to set us up for the sequel movie slated for October 2026. This sequence is the newest addition to Netflix’s rising array of TMNT titles, together with Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Film (2022), Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2018) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2013). And the transfer builds on Netflix’s cadre of Nickelodeon reveals. Over the past 12 months, the streamer introduced over The Tiny Chef Present; Transformers: EarthSpark; PAW Patrol spin-off, Rubble and Crew; and The Pretty OddParents!: A New Want!
This serves as no shock as, for a number of years now, Netflix and Nickelodeon have formally collaborated to create youngsters’s content material within the face of rising competitors from Disney+. Nickelodeon’s president Brian Robbins mentioned in a 2019 press launch “Nickelodeon’s subsequent step ahead is to maintain increasing past linear platforms, and our broader content material partnership with Netflix is a key path towards that objective.
‘Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes
Starring a number of members of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem forged, together with Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, Publish Malone, Natasia Demetriou, Brady Midday, Rose Byrne, Danny Trejo, Pete Davidson, and Edebiri, the sequence as soon as once more places the juvenile superheros in a never-before-seen creative design that Animation World Community calls, “tough, scratchy teen-ish” that extra totally encapsulates “adolescent angst.” Likewise, followers had been total receptive to the brand new animation fashion, delivering the sequence a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Along with the visible variations, co-creator Alan Wan informed Animation World Community that they selected to lean into the heroes’ identities as youngsters, saying, “The best way the characters behave and the voice performing from our actors does really feel like actual children and the present feels extra grounded as an entire.” And the selection of teenage, lesser-known voice actors definitely contributes to the youthful really feel.
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The movie will probably be an adaptation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Final Ronin, a extra adult-themed storyline seen in IDW comics.
In reviewing the sequence for The Hollywood Reporter, Angie Han wrote that the sequence supplies a “deeper understanding of what makes the Turtles tick as a staff… When the Turtles are lastly reunited, the assist they present one another feels all of the richer as a result of we perceive so nicely what it means to every of them individually,” she writes.
By way of updates for the Mutant Mayhem sequel, Rogen informed Display Rant that improvement “is on monitor,” and {that a} yet-to-be disclosed title has been settled upon. Within the meantime, a second season for the sequence has but to be introduced.
- Launch Date
- August 4, 2023
- Runtime
- 100 Minutes