The TMNT movie spin-off show is inspired by Superbad and honors the original comics in a unique way
Jul. 17, 2024Exclusive: Executive producer Chris Yost talks to Total Film about the upcoming TMNT spin-off series
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Now, as executive producer Chris Yost tellsTotal Film in our new issueout on Thursday, July 19, which featuresAlien: Romuluson the cover, there is a surprise inspiration for the upcoming summer show.
“I watched a lot of Superbad, really, more or less, to get the voice,” says Yost of the 2007 teen comedy classic, starring Jonah Hill and Michael Cera. “We watched the movie over and over.”
Picking up where Mutant Mayhem left off, after Superfly buzzed his way through a trail of destruction in New York, Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are framed as the comic-book doodlings of Leonardo, harking back to the Turtles’ roots as comic-book characters precisely 40 years ago.
“We always try to honour the comics, because that’s where it all came from,” says Yost. “Forty years later, here we are, telling these stories.”
In an exclusive image, which you can see above, the four turtles are all seen in a flurry of explosions and chaos, fittingly saving the day.
Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles streams on Paramount Plus from August 10. And you can read more about it and a whole lot else besides in the new issue of Total Film when it hits shelves and digital newsstands on Thursday, July 19.
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I’m the Editor at Total Film magazine, overseeing the running of the mag, and generally obsessing over all things Nolan, Kubrick and Pixar. Over the past decade I’ve worked in various roles for TF online and in print, including at GamesRadar+, and you can often hear me nattering on the Inside Total Film podcast. Bucket-list-ticking career highlights have included reporting from the set of Tenet and Avengers: Infinity War, as well as covering Comic-Con, TIFF and the Sundance Film Festival.
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