TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM Concept Art Spotlights Alternate Mikey And Leo Designs

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM Concept Art Spotlights Alternate Mikey And Leo Designs

Some more concept art for Paramount's animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot has been shared online, this time spotlighting early designs for Michelangelo and Leonardo...

By MarkCassidy - Aug 22, 2023 07:08 AM EST
Source: Via Toonado.com

As artists who worked on Paramount Pictures' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem continue to share their designs online, this latest artwork gives us a look at some early character concepts for two of the Heroes in a Half-Shell.

Leonardo and Michelangelo don't look a million miles away from the versions of the characters we met in the animated reboot, but there are a few notable differences.

For one, the spots indicate that the Turtles were originally going to take more inspiration from the '90s live-action movie. It also seems like the Fearsome Foursome were going to be a little older, and maybe slightly edgier.

Mutant Mayhem recently passed $120 million worldwide on a reported $70 million budget (before marketing costs), but there is a perception that the movie is underperforming due to the strikes (find out more here).

Check out the artwork at the link below, and if you're interested in my take on Mutant Mayhem along with the other six theatrically-released TMNT movies, have a listen to the latest episode of the Roll Credits podcast.

“After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O’Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.”

Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu and Brady Noon will voice the roles of Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael, respectively. The cast also includes Jackie Chan as Splinter, Hannibal Buress as Genghis Frog, Rose Byrne as Leatherhead, Ice Cube as Superfly, Natasia Demetriou as Wingnut, Ayo Edebiri as April O’Neil, Giancarlo Esposito as Baxter Stockman, Post Malone as Ray Fillet, Paul Rudd as Mondo Gecko, and Maya Rudolph as Cynthia Utrom.

Jeff Rowe (The Mitchells vs. the Machines) directed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, which is produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.

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Origame
Origame - 8/22/2023, 7:35 AM
It's basically just showing this probably should've had a different art style.

Everything just looks ugly in this movie (and I don't just mean the April redesign).
DarthOmega
DarthOmega - 8/22/2023, 8:01 AM
@Origame - Yeah. I think they thought "Hey, look at the Spider-Verse, we can just do that style" but yeah, Spider-Verse didn't look like a bunch of cluttered mess. I get what they were going for, but it should be at least somewhat aesthetically pleasing.
Origame
Origame - 8/22/2023, 8:06 AM
@DarthOmega - yeah. And I think it hurts the narrative of the turtles trying to fit in with humans when the humans look ugly as well.
DarthOmega
DarthOmega - 8/22/2023, 8:27 AM
@Origame - Yeah. I must say though. I grew up watching the og animated series. If you had told me back then that kids would still be into this franchise in the year 2023 I'd be shocked.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 8/22/2023, 7:58 AM
This giant toy advert seems to have worked.

Box office wise though not so much. Not that they care.
Although in a year where the two of the biggest movies of the year were animated? That's noticeably bad. But with Spider-verse (a movie that TMNT:MM is quite fairly compared to) the audience was hardcore fans and also general audiences. The kids were more of an after thought. So everyone watched it. With TMNT:MM, the key demographic was children and then the hardcore fans and general audiences weren't even thought of at all.

Which is fine. There's TMNT content out there for me (mostly comics right now) and I did watch this once, got into the spirit, enjoyed it and promptly forgot about it. I don't hate it. I'm dispassionate.

But the fact it was just a toy advert means it only made money from toys and had a pretty stinky BO. I expect Paw Patrol will have similar results.
dragon316
dragon316 - 8/22/2023, 9:12 AM
Still wouldn’t have mad ego see movie you can have comic accurate costumes and look characters in wolverine origins that movie still sucks same situation judge book by it’s cover
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