Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with writer-director Cord Jefferson‘s feature film debut American Fiction.
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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have been around since the ‘80s. They’ve starred in several animated TV series, live-action movies from Jim Henson costumes to CGI turtles, and two animated films. The latest, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, reinvents the comic book heroes in several ways.
Perhaps taking a cue from the Spider-Verse movies, Mutant Mayhem uses an animation style that is not a straightforward depiction of its world. You can tell it’s New York and there are turtles and other mutants, but the animation combines styles like teenage sketchbooks to create a livelier viewing experience.
The film sticks to the turtles’ origins, mutated by green ooze along with their father figure, the rat named Splinter. The experiments by scientist Baxter Stockman (voice of Giancarlo Esposito) led to the creation of some familiar mutants like Bebop (Seth Rogen) and Rocksteady (John Cena), along with some new ones like Superfly (Ice Cube). The loaded voice cast also includes Ayo Edebiri as April O’Neil, Paul Rudd, Hannibal Buress, Rose Byrne and Post Malone.
For the four teenage turtles — Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael — directors Jeff Rowe and Kyler Spears, with producers Rogen and Evan Goldberg, cast teenage actors Micah Abbey, Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon and Sharon Brown Jr. This is why you’ll see the differences between what was scripted and the final film, as the filmmakers allowed the actors to improvise to capture the dynamics of real teenagers.
That included modern TikTok references even Rogen wasn’t familiar with. “I don’t know who the Ocky guy is but apparently the Ocky guy is hilarious,” Rogen said on a panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles. “Tell him you love bacon egg and cheese
Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with writer-director Cord Jefferson‘s feature film debut American Fiction.
Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Nimona, Netflix‘s animated feature based on ND Stevenson’s 2015 National Book Award-nominated graphic novel about finding friendship in the most surprising situations and accepting yourself and others for who they are.
Since the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature was awarded in 2002 to DreamWorks’ Shrek, the animation industry has made incredible strides. This awards season, such films are pushing the boundaries of what animation can be, and VFX plays a huge part in infusing new artistic styles into every frame.
Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Andrew Haigh’s romantic fantasy All of Us Strangers. Haigh directs and wrote the film that’s loosely inspired by Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel Strangers.
Kelly Stafford has been by her husband Matthew Stafford‘s side for his college and NFL career, and we’re taking a minute to get to know her better!
Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Maestro, which is directed, co-written, produced by and stars Bradley Cooper.
Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with the Paul King-directed and co-written Wonka. From Warner Bros, Village Roadshow and Heyday Films, the Timothée Chalamet starrer is also co-written by Simon Farnaby based on characters created by Roald Dahl.
Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Dream Scenario, A24’s surreal dark comedy from Norwegian filmmaker Kristoffer Borgli that plays off Nicolas Cage’s decades-long permeation of the imagination.
Angelique Jackson SPOILER ALERT: This story contains major spoilers for “Lawmen: Bass Reeves” all eight episodes of which are now streaming on Paramount+. When David Oyelowo first learned about the legend of Bass Reeves — who escaped enslavement to become one of the first Black U.S. Deputy Marshals west of the Mississippi — nearly a decade ago, the actor-producer set out on a mission to bring the story to the masses. Oyelowo’s goal was the same as the one he’d set when playing Martin Luther King Jr.
Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with the ambitious Ava DuVernay-directed drama Origin, with the script also written by DuVernay inspired by Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson’s groundbreaking book Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents.
Who knew a simple photo could cause so much controversy!
Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Christopher Nolan’s epic biographical thriller Oppenheimer. Based on American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, Nolan wrote the script about the titular complicated and brilliant physicist tasked with leading the Manhattan Project, the secret effort to create the atom bomb, and the moral and political struggles that followed.
Naman Ramachandran Damon Wayans Jr. and Andrew “King Bach” Bachelor have engaged David F. Walker to co-write and Ben Bishop to illustrate graphic novel “Shogun Run.” Wayans Jr and Bachelor had revealed earlier this year that they would create and write the graphic novel.
Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Sofia Coppola’s biopic Priscilla. Based on the 1985 memoir Elvis and Me co-authored by Priscilla Presley and Sandra Harmon, the script was adapted by Coppola who also directed.
EXCLUSIVE: Climate Spring, TK-FX, and indie British firm Lowkey Films have teamed on a new venture titled the Climate Short Animation Film Competition, in partnership with BBC Writers and in collaboration with BFI Network.
Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Asteroid City, Wes Anderson‘s latest film that had its world premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Michel Franco’s Memory, the thoughtful drama that won Peter Sarsgaard the Best Actor Volpi Cup in Venice earlier this year. Franco directs and wrote the movie that also stars Jessica Chastain.
It’s pretty crazy to think, years after its absolutely massive debut, “Stranger Things” is still near the top of the TV cultural zeitgeist. This is a show, no matter how long it gets delayed and even if some seasons are worse than others, that just continues to dominate.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem on the home formats starting with digital this month, we have a clip from the film to share with you all.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.
Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with action franchise smash John Wick: Chapter 4. The fourth installment in the Chad Stahelski-directed series was penned by Shay Hatten and Michael Finch (based on characters created by Derek Kolstad) in their first turn with Baba Yaga — even if the titular revenge artist, played by Keanu Reeves, speaks only 380 words of dialogue.