The upcoming animated outing, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, has scored some Oscar-winning composers to provide the melodies for the reboot of everyone’s favorite heroes in a half shell. Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross will score Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, with director Jeff Rowe taking to social media to confirm the news.
The involvement of Reznor and Ross was first revealed by pro-skater Tony Hawk during a recent appearance on the Hawk vs Wolf podcast, with Rowe now revealing that it is indeed true and describing the work of the musicians as “Exhilarating, terrifying, heartbreaking, full of sounds I didn’t know existed.”
In a follow-up tweet, Rowe revealed that we have not yet heard anything from the score saying, “nothing they’ve done has been released yet. It’s not them in the teaser trailer, and won’t be them in this week’s trailer.” Oh, and also, we’re getting a new trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem this week.
Reznor and Ross have scored an animated outing before, with the pair winning their second Oscar for their wonderful work on Pixar’s 2020 release, Soul. The duo was awarded their first Academy Award for their work on director David Fincher’s The Social Network, and have also provided music for the likes of the HBO limited series Watchmen, as well as teaming up with Fincher for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Mank, and Gone Girl.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem Is Due to Hit Theaters in August
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem picks up with the beloved brothers after years of being sheltered from the humans. Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael set out to win the hearts of the New York people and be accepted as normal teenagers through their heroic acts. The turtles’ new friend April O’Neil also helps them in their acts by having them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon land in trouble when they are confronted by an army of mutants.
Based on the comic book characters created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem will act a reboot for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise and features an all-star cast led by Micah Abbey as Donatello, Nicolas Cantu as Leonardo, Brady Noon as Raphael, Shamon Brown Jr. as Michelangelo, and Ayo Edebiri as April O’Neil. The rest of the cast includes John Cena as Rocksteady, Seth Rogen as Bebop, Giancarlo Esposito as Baxter Stockman, and Jackie Chan as Splinter, as well as appearances from Hannibal Buress, Rose Byrne, Ice Cube, Natasia Demetriou, Post Malone, Paul Rudd, and Maya Rudolph.
Directed by Jeff Rowe in his feature directorial debut and Kyler Spears, and from a screenplay written by Rowe, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is scheduled to be released in theaters in the United States on August 2, 2023, with Mutant Mayhem planned as the start of a new era for the ninja-loving brothers.
This story originally appeared on Movieweb
