At San Diego Comedian-Con right now, Paramount gave us one final main have a look at Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, its interquel animated collection meant to bridge the hole between Mutant Mayhem and its upcoming theatrical sequel.
Set to launch in just a few weeks, Tales of the TMNT will observe Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael (with Mutant Mayhem‘s younger stars Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, and Brady Midday all reprising their respective roles) as they attempt to navigate highschool reside alongside their new finest buddy April (the likewise returning Ayo Edebiri).
However the arrival of a brand new risk within the metropolis, within the type of the anti-mutant Bishop and a military of big robots seeking to clamp down on the mutant resurgence after the events of Mutant Mayhem, sees the brothers compelled to go their very own separate methods, and study to be heroes in their very own rights earlier than they re-unite as a workforce. However any good TMNT present wants a killer title sequence–and Tales‘ revealed at Comedian-Con (and debuted on-line by Collider) this afternoon, is a delight.
Taking inspiration from Mutant Mayhem‘s scribbly-aesthetic–one of many first ever teasers for the movie was performed within the model of teenager scribbling artwork into the liner on their college pocket book–the sequence is a very cool, fashionable riff on transitioning the movie’s aesthetic to a 2D kind. The motion, the results, the overall alt-teen vibe: it’s protected to say if that is something to go by, the world of Mutant Mayhem is dropping little or no in its leap from the large display screen to streaming TV.
Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is about to start streaming on Paramount+ August 9.
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