Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem director Jeff Rowe talks about changing the lore and the future of the Ninja Turtles franchise.
The Big Picture Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem made its theatrical debut on August 2, 2023. The film reintroduces the Heroes in a Half-Shell in a brand-new way. For the very first time, Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael are voiced by actual teenagers and facing real-world problems on top of a mutant apocalypse. The creative team behind Mutant Mayhem took some big swings both within the film's story and its art direction.
JEFF ROWE: That's a great question. There's so many, like recording Jackie Chan was insane, recording Ice Cube was hilarious, recording all four kids together was delightful. The mix stage was like a tired, fun dance party, just listening to Trent and Atticus tracks on the big speakers and dancing and being delirious from lack of sleep. It was so fun.
That leads me to another question. We know you have a sequel series and another movie in the works; are we gonna see Donatello start making his giant robots? Awesome. Jackie Chan played Master Splinter and I really enjoyed this version of Master Splinter. He usually has one of two origins: he's Hamato Yoshi turned into a rat, or he is the pet of Hamato Yoshi who gets mutated, right? This one, he’s very much self-taught. It's very different from the classic interpretations of Splinter. What led to radically changing Splinter and his relationship with the Turtles? It's more of a family dynamic than ever, I think.
I think those chances ultimately paid off. It does make Splinter this very sympathetic character because you understand where he's coming from the entire movie. He's not just this stern father figure who doesn't want his sons to be happy. He's trying to protect them from the hardships he's faced, so I thought that was really great touch. That kind of does lead me to this question, though, because you just mentioned that you made that big swing.
ROWE: It's so interesting. The very first version of the film was sold to Paramount as a high school movie. The Turtles used to arrive in high school on page 30 of the script, and then they were in high school through most of it. We had a whole version of that film that was pretty decent, but we're like, “It's just Turtles in high school. It's kind of boring.
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