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29.07.2023 - 21:23 / etcanada.com
Don’t look to see Seth Rogen fighting supervillains in a Marvel or DC movie.
In a new interview with Polygon, Rogen was asked what had “turned you off from Marvel and DC,” and he offered an interesting response.
“Honestly, probably fear,” he replied with a laugh.
According to Rogen, he and writing/producing partner Evan Goldberg have developed their own style of filmmaking, and he’s apprehensive about stepping beyond that.
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“We really have a pretty specific way we work; me and Evan have been writers for 20 years at this point,” he explained.
“It’s a fear of the process, honestly. And I say that knowing nothing about the process. There are a lot of Marvel things I love,” Rogen continued.
“It’s mostly a fear of how would we plug into the system they have in place, which seems like a very good system, and a system that serves them very well. But is it a system that we would ultimately get really frustrated with?” he added.
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As he pointed out, as producers of the upcoming “Teenage Mutant Turtles” movie, “Mutant Mayhem,” and Prime Video superhero series “The Boys”, they can tackle those projects on their own terms.
“So we dictated the system, and we dictated the process in a lot of ways. And that’s what’s also appealing for us about ‘The Boys’ and the other bigger franchise-y type things we’ve done, is that we are creating the infrastructure and process for them, not plugging into someone else’s infrastructure and process,” he said. “We’re control freaks!”
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, but this time there's one major difference — the titular turtles are actually played by teenagers!«They're often middle-aged men doing Teenage-Voiced Mutant Ninja Turtles,» joked Seth Rogen when he sat down with ET's Will Marfuggi to talk about how a life-long love of the titular turtles led to writing and producing the latest installment in the long-running franchise.«I was really the target audience for the first iteration of all this stuff,» he explained, noting that he watched the cartoons and movies as a kid and was «obsessed» with the toys. «My dad bought like, a big box of used toys at a garage sale when I was a kid, and so I had those and I played with them so much.»However, Rogen admitted, «I always thought that the 'Teenage' part of it was weirdly under-explored, you know?»For his movie, the star added in more details about the turtles' desire to be just regular teens, and wanted the cast to be made up of voice actors that were closer in age to their characters than past iterations.star Brady Noon, 17, is Raphael, the bravest and strongest — but also most impulsive — of his brothers, who wears a red mask and fights with two pronged sai weapons.
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Seth Rogen has revealed why he doesn’t want to work for Marvel or DC.The actor, who recently worked on the animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem movie and owns the production company that helps make Amazon Prime‘s The Boys, was asked in a new interview what has kept him “turned off” from joining other movie franchises like the two comic based giants.“Honestly, probably fear. We really have a pretty specific way we work; me and Evan [Goldberg] have been writers for 20 years at this point. It’s a fear of the process, honestly.
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Brent Lang Executive Editor It seemed like the end of the road for the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.” The popular kids franchise had inspired a half-dozen movies of declining quality, with the live-action 2016 adventure “Out of the Shadows” suffering from the kind of withering reviews and bad box office returns that derail a film series. But Paramount and Nickelodeon CEO Brian Robbins and Nickelodeon Animation and Paramount Animation president Ramsey Naito had an offbeat idea for how they could make the Turtles cool again. That involved tapping Seth Rogen and his producing partner Evan Goldberg, the duo behind “Superbad” and “This is the End,” to give the characters an adolescent flair.
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