The TMNT movie spin-off show is inspired by Superbad and honors the original comics in a unique way

Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
(Image credit: Paramount+)

Back in 2023, Paramount announced a spin-off series to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesܫ: Mutant Mayhem that would see the heroes in half-shell return for Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on Paramount Plus.

Now, as executive producer Chris Yost tells out on Thursday, July 19, which features 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Alien: Romulus on 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 ꦍover."

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 storie𓆉s."

Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

(Image credit: Paramount+)

In an exclusive image, which you can 🌺see above, the four turtles are all seen in a flurry of expꦍlosions and chaos, fittingly saving the day.

Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja T꧅urtles 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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Matt Maytum
Editor, Total Film

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 a🍒nd in print, including at GamesRadar+, and you can often hear me nattering on the Inside Total Film podcast. Bucket-list-ticking caree💧r 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.