‘TMNT’: Why Scale Tail Isn't in Superfly’s Crew in ‘Mutant Mayhem’
Director Jeff Rowe hits the sweet spot with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. He made a Turtles movie loaded with nostalgia and Easter eggs, but also one that serves as an on-ramp for Ninja Turtles newcomers.
PERRI NEMIROFF: I love hearing about how films evolve along the way, so what's the biggest difference between draft one of this script and what people will ultimately see in the finished film? So there's one answer to this next question, but for all the other characters in the film, which character design changed the most from beginning to end?
But on Mitchells, Mike [Rianda] and I, I think were somewhat timid. We had never directed before and were like, 'What if we made it look kind of cool, and we tried some things,' but if someone would say, "Oh, that's not technically possible,' we'd be like, 'Oh okay, I guess we won't do that then.' And on this film, I'm like, 'No, I know it's technologically possible. I will not compromise on the vision.
This might be more of a producing question, but I was just reading an article about how rigorous this particular style of animation can be. As the leader of the production, the director of the film, is there anything you can be doing in order to make sure all of your animators have the time, resources, and support they need to have a creatively fulfilling experience?
Can confirm that personality shines through. It's got a texture to it that I think other forms of animation don't quite get the same way. What is the biggest challenge when making something like that happen? Or rather, what is the main reason that every single animated movie doesn't record its actors that way?
ROWE: I mean, the kids did somewhat just because we had the idea of who the Turtles were and then we met them and saw the way that they talked, and were like, “Okay, this is what the movie has to be now.” Superfly, Ice Cube, was so improv -- he said so many things that we couldn't use in the film. [Laughs] But I think with everyone, we started rewriting the characters to just the way people naturally spoke.
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