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How did you arrive at that style?
JEFF ROWE: We were looking for kind of a governing principle.
‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’Paramount Pictures
What is this movie going to look like?
Whats its visual identity going to be?
Do we make it look like theTurtles comics?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant MayhemParamount Pictures/ courtesy Everett Collection
Do we make it look like the animated TV series?
Do we make it look like the live action versions?
TheNinja Turtleshave been so many things through so many generations, there is no definitive version.
What if we made the movie look like it was drawn by teenagers?
What if we made it look like the art style of notebook doodles and sketches?
And we started researching.
And then what comes out of that process?
It has no formal art training.
Its so beautifully imperfect, and we wanted to capture that beautiful imperfection in the show style.
DEADLINE: Speaking of casting teenagers as the Turtles, how did you find those voice actors?
ROWE: It was a huge casting.
And were just like, What voice sounds the most interesting coming out of Leo?
Whats going to be the most interesting contrast between the other voices?
It was like, these are the turtles, it has to be them.
Initially we recorded them individually and it was just okay.
The jokes were good sometimes, but it was a little bit stiff and rigid.
They talked over each other, they argued, they made fun of each other…
He became more of a father than a sensei.
ROWE: Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, I think the idea of a sensei father is somewhat ungrounded.
Jackie [Chan] brought so much warmth to that performance because Splinter on paper could be highly unlikable.
And you sympathize with him and its totally understandable.
